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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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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Youssef Chahine is the premier director of Egyptian cinema—the largest national cinema in the Arab world—and this film, the conclusion of an autobiographical trilogy, was intended as his coming-out film. As the director begins production on a film, his favorite actor, and alter ego, deserts the set, and problems continue to mount. Along the way, Chahine exploits the misfortunes of his main character to satirize the process of filmmaking, especially in the Third World.

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