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starring: Dan Sonney, David F. Friedman, Frank Henenlotter, Mike Vraney, Carol Friedmandirected by: Ted Bonnitt
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0823117777739
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: 7th Planet
Manufacturer: 7th Planet
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 7th Planet
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Running Time: 80 minutes
Sales Rank: 99683
Studio: 7th Planet
Theatrical Release Date: April 06, 2001
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Editorial Review:
Description:
What went on, what came off: 50 years of jaw-dropping exploitation filmmaking! - 'Great fun!' (NY TIMES) - A theatrical hit in North America's major markets – Imagine spending time with two of your favorite storytelling grandfathers who just happened to make dirty movies. MAU MAU SEX SEX features Dan Sonney and David Friedman, Independent Cinema’s original outlaws, and who the New York Times affectionately calls 'the Sunshine Boys of Smut.' Take a scintillating sojourn through a century of cinematic sex, and a hilarious and unexpectedly poignant look at the friendship, families, and fortunes of two men who catered to a repressed society’s forbidden desires, and made a bigger impact on the culture's concept of sexuality than Masters and Johnson. Since the 1940s they have produced an avalanche of 'Adults Only' movies for generations of insatiably curious moviegoers.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Problematic....
This movie is problematic in many ways. Basically, the problem is this: if you want to watch this movie, you probably already know about Friedman and Sonney. However, if you already have watched a few SW commentary tracks, or read the book "Grindhouse" or other such works, nothing in this movie will really be new to you at all. It isn't bad, per se, as an overview of the exploitation genre, but it also doesn't break any new ground. What's more, it defies expectations by not really having Friedman ... Read More
Rating: - Interesting at First.....
Pop-Culture is screaming for a quality documentary on the roadshow/exploitation flick/B-Movie phenomenon. This documentary starts off with interesting information, but focuses primarily on roadshow icons Dan Sonney and David Friedman. While they are probably the two prime surviving players from the roadshow days, this film shifts the focus from roadshow films to the personal lives of Sonney and Friedman. It is interesting to hear their firsthand accounts of life on the road, but a film like this needs ... Read More
Rating: - Uninformative
(...) Actually what is shown is a scene from Dwain Esper's film "Maniac" in which a mad scientist pops out a cat's eye and eats it. Even if you believe that almost everything in films are real, the fact that the cat just lets out a meow of annoyance should be enough clue that this is not really happening. In fact, in another documentary ("Sex and Buttered Popcorn") it is explained that the director used a cat that lost its eye in a fight with another cat when it was young and a black marble to create ... Read More
Rating:  - Dirty old men
Two leering, dirty old farts lechingly reminiscing about their lecherous past. They supposedly gave the world a genre formula for showing women abused on film, and we're supposed to think that's cute because they're old guys now and it was just about making money, no harm meant.
But lots of harm done.
Yeccchhhhh.
Rating:  - Defenders of First Amendment
What a lot of people don't realize is that the subjects of this charming and funny documentary are heroes who protected the First Amendment for all our sakes. When they were producing their films there were no Videos or DVD's you could see in your own home. If you wanted to see skin, you had to go to a movie house. They were sued and defended a person's right to see what they wanted. This is an easy history lesson for all film fans while having a bunch of fun. "Shake a little more flour out of the ... Read More
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