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Cinematical Seven: Sex Addicts on the Silver Screen
Filed under: Comedy », Documentary », Drama », Independent », Romance », NSFW », Cinematical Seven », George Clooney »
"Well, you tried it just for once, found it all right for kicks.
But now you found out that it's a habit that sticks,
and you're an orgasm addict." – The Buzzcocks
The new movie Choke, adapted from the Chuck Palahniuk novel, is about a sex addict (Sam Rockwell) who, in one element of the plot, hooks up with other sex addicts who attend the same Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings as him. Ah, the irony. The same thing happened to Sam Malone on Cheers, if I'm not mistaken, which makes the joke around 20 years old. Yet, despite that fact, sexual addiction as a term and a (non-DSM-recognized) medical problem seem fairly new to cinema.
Sure, there have been sex addicts in films for many decades, but they were more likely to be described as nymphomaniacs, lechers or typical men. Think of Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind, a number of the female characters created by Tennessee Williams and certainly the locked up nymphos in Shock Corridor. In the past few years, however, there have been a slew of actual "sexaholics," both male and female, though some aren't exactly referred to in such a manner.
Fill-In-The-Blank: Tuesday, April 11
Filed under: Documentary », Independent », Deals », Podcasts », Distribution », Movie Marketing », Remakes and Sequels », Fill-In-The-Blank », Cinematical Indie »
On today's episode of our brand-new daily news recap: My Space does something about Sex Addicts; Comcast does something *for* horror fanboys; and Hollywood pounces on Terri Sciavo. Remember: we're still looking for your ideas for a name for the show, so do your worst in the comments.
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00:00 - MySpace says 'no' to 'Sex Addict'
01:35 - MovieTickets.com inks
deal with MySpace to sell tickets
01:49 - Comcast and Sony to launch horror flicks on-demand network
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03:27 - Schwarzenegger 'won't be back' for
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03:54 - Rights to Terri Schiavo movie purchased
Tales of the City: San Francisco Film Roundup
Filed under: Mark Cuban », Tales of the City », Columns »
After over fifteen years in the making -- and making Malick look rushed -- Caveh Zahedi's I Am a Sex Addict opened in
Zahedi's own Bay Area this week, at the Balboa. The notable, quotable Neva Chonin has the best piece, from The Chronicle. The first weekend's screenings also include an extensive series of
in-person appearances by Zahedi and his fellow filmmakers from in front and behind the camera; The Balboa's Website has more information. And,
fascinatingly, the release of I Am a Sex Addict also had the nice side-effect of inducing a media-mogul
slapfight that's based around ownership of the film's future rights; we have the story, if that
look behind the curtain appeals to you in any way, shape or form.
Also this week, the weeklies have some nice film-related stuff, including a discussion of Jim Jones and the new documentary Jonestown:
The Life and Death of Peoples Temple in the Bay Guardian. The
ever-ready Cheryl Eddy has a review.
San Francisco had 25 days of rain in March. Twenty-five days of rain.
Review: I Am a Sex Addict
Filed under: Comedy », Documentary », Independent », New Releases », Tribeca », IFC », Theatrical Reviews », Other Festivals », Cinematical Indie »
Winner of the Snakes on a Plane Award for most forthright title, Caveh Zahedi's fictionalized documentary I Am a Sex Addict has come to the big screen after fifteen years of production, setbacks, disasters and difficulties. The passage of time hasn't changed the tense of the title -- Zahedi may be recovered for years, but he's still got impossibly conflicted feelings and desires about sex -- and in many ways the slow crawl to the finish line enabled I Am a Sex Addict to have a sweep and scope that a lot of modern navel-gazing self-made films lack.
As a subject (or leading man – the film straddles the line between the real and the re-created), Zahedi's a pretty unlikely figure: Bold but bashful, larger-than-life but small of stature, smart enough to be incredibly aware of how stupid many of his actions are. Those dichotomies run throughout the film, making I Am a Sex Addict repellent-yet-riveting: You don't want to watch Zahedi open up the aperture of the camera and spill his guts onto the frame , but he's so open -- and fascinating, and frank about his self-destruction and majestically pathetic -- that you can't help but watch. Of course, the fact that Zahedi's got a slow-fuse, deadpan delivery that makes him look like a neurotic Buster Keaton doesn't hurt his watchability. …
IFC gets into simultaneous distribution
Filed under: Independent », IFC », Distribution », Home Entertainment », Cinematical Indie »
I
just got word that IFC Films is about to launch a new distribution banner, aimed at releasing films in theaters and
through On-Demand cable TV, simultaneously. The program will be called First Take, and to it IFC has already attached
six films: CSA: The Confederate States of America, Caveh Zahedi's I Am a Sex Addict, New York Film
Festival favorite Three Times, American Gun, Russian Dolls, and Sandra Oh-starrer and my
early vote for Title of the Year, Sorry Haters. First Take hopes to release an additional 20 films this year.
The basic idea is that by closing the window between theatrical and cable on these types of niche releases, films that
would have only shown on the coasts can get a nationwide release. What do we think about this? Is this a more or less viable plan than the cable/DVD/theatrical simultaneous release program that Mark Cuban and Steven Soderbergh are launching this week with Bubble?
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