La Ronde, the classic sexual merry-go-round, is updated to the age of AIDS by Themistocles Lopez and given a gay perspective that results in a sexy, funny, and hauntingly civilized film that does Schnitzler proud. Here, in contemporary New York, it is chanteuse meets pious workman meets wife meets doctor meets maid meets writer meets young hustler meets social worker meets dancer, etc. With Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) as an avid chicken-hawk.

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A no-holds-barred exposé of the raunchy, creative juices flowing in the writer’s veins, director Gerry Ciccoritti pulls out all the stops in this relentless tale of sex, sex, sex, and more sex! Lucy Quick, a hip young novelist cast in the image of Anaïs Nin, finds herself suffering from writer’s block and at the end of her tether. Enter Sloan, a wiry avenging angel with a perpetual hard-on. They embark on an odyssey to the center of their sexual imaginations, eventually drawing in everyone around them. Ciccoritti demonstrates true finesse in his direction of straight, gay, and S&M sex scenes, pushing sexual tension beyond expected limits into the realm of absolute anarchy and hilarity.

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The incomparable k.d. lang makes her film debut in Percy Adlon’s (Bagdad Cafe, Sugarbaby) exquisitely shot love story about a young, untamed Eskimo woman and her lesbian desire for a German émigeré working as a librarian at an Eskimo trading post in Northwest Alaska. Kabetsu, played by k.d. Lang, who sings the title song “Barefoot”, makes awkward advances to Roswitha (Rosel Zech, who played the title role in Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss). The ensuing relationship begins fraught with sexual tension, but grows into one of nurturing independence and love.

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