Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson
Rating (out of 5): ***½
Radley Metzger is widely acknowledged as one of America's greatest erotic filmmakers, which basically means that he's more serious than Russ Meyer and his films more artful than most porn. Metzger is perhaps best known for Camille 2000 (1969), The Lickerish Quartet (1970), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1975), and Score, which has been re-released on DVD in an uncensored version.
Adapted by Jerry Douglas from his own play, Score features four main characters, plus a fifth supporting character. It takes place over a weekend in a fictitious European city. A "swinging" couple, Elvira (Claire Wilbur) and Jack (Gerald Grant) have a running contest to see who can seduce more members of the same sex. They lure other couples over for dinner, and Elvira sleeps with the woman, while Jack sleeps with the man. Their latest victims are newly married Eddie (Casey Donovan) and Betsy...
Rating (out of 5): ***½
Radley Metzger is widely acknowledged as one of America's greatest erotic filmmakers, which basically means that he's more serious than Russ Meyer and his films more artful than most porn. Metzger is perhaps best known for Camille 2000 (1969), The Lickerish Quartet (1970), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1975), and Score, which has been re-released on DVD in an uncensored version.
Adapted by Jerry Douglas from his own play, Score features four main characters, plus a fifth supporting character. It takes place over a weekend in a fictitious European city. A "swinging" couple, Elvira (Claire Wilbur) and Jack (Gerald Grant) have a running contest to see who can seduce more members of the same sex. They lure other couples over for dinner, and Elvira sleeps with the woman, while Jack sleeps with the man. Their latest victims are newly married Eddie (Casey Donovan) and Betsy...
- 11/9/2010
- by underdog
- GreenCine
Lynn Lowry is known to many fans of vintage horror cinema as the lovely co-star of George A. Romero’s The Crazies, David Cronenberg’s Shivers (a.k.a. They Came From Within) and other films, but you can now see a different, er, side of her thanks to Cult Epics’ new DVD/Blu-ray release of the sexploitation classic Score. starring the lovely Lynn Lowry. Radley Metzger’s movie is one of the most pivotal and downright erotic features of the early-’70s exploitation period.
- 11/5/2010
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Lianne Spiderbaby)
- Fangoria
Although the holiday season means time off work for most other industries in the U.S., it means it's awards season for the film business, which in turn necessitates plenty of tributes and accolades to be presented on the East and West Coasts at your local repertory theater in advance of the Oscars where movie stars can be seen and Q & As are conducted. Yet in New York and Los Angeles, there will be a wealth of other options as neighborhood theaters flood their screens with contemporary cinema from other parts of the world, classic movies in their full bigscreen glory, and certain-to-be-fun nods to the holidays, whether it's Halloween or Christmas. If you live in one of these areas or see fit to travel, these are the events worth the trouble over the next few months.
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- 10/21/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
81-year-old filmmaker and distributor Radley Metzger has never been an artist who chased cheap thrills. Until the sea change of the '70s, when theatrically-released erotica was rejected in favor of hardcore pornography like Deep Throat, Metzger gained international acclaim for directing sophisticated, literate and lavishly stylized erotic films like The Lickerish Quartet, Camille 2000 and Therese and Isabelle. This week, Metzger's 1972 milestone Score, a film that Interview once said "hilariously hits the bull's-eye of bisexual chic," has been made available and uncut for the first on DVD/Blu-ray from Cult Epics:
Score is based on a 1971 hit Off-Broadway play that follows the erotic exploits of a happily married swinging couple (Claire Wilbur and Gerald Grant) who make a bet that they can seduce a couple of naïve young newlyweds during a weekend get-together at their luxury Riviera Villa. The young couple is played by Lynn Lowry, who starred in...
Score is based on a 1971 hit Off-Broadway play that follows the erotic exploits of a happily married swinging couple (Claire Wilbur and Gerald Grant) who make a bet that they can seduce a couple of naïve young newlyweds during a weekend get-together at their luxury Riviera Villa. The young couple is played by Lynn Lowry, who starred in...
- 10/15/2010
- GreenCine Daily
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Tim Gunn isn’t getting any more mellow, on Anna Wintour or anyone else. He’s been shooting an episode of Gossip Girl, and he’s so over Little J (Taylor Momsen). “What a diva. She was pathetic, she couldn't remember her lines, and she didn't even have that many. I thought to myself 'why are we all being held hostage by this brat?"
If you recall, the anti-gay bigots in California were trying to get conservative Lt. Gov. Abel Maldono to appeal the Prop 8 case on behalf of the state while Gov. Schwarzenegger was out of the country. They're still mad he didn’t do it. Want to know his excuse? A gas pipeline exploded and killed people, and he prioritized it over Prop 8. The Prop...
Tim Gunn isn’t getting any more mellow, on Anna Wintour or anyone else. He’s been shooting an episode of Gossip Girl, and he’s so over Little J (Taylor Momsen). “What a diva. She was pathetic, she couldn't remember her lines, and she didn't even have that many. I thought to myself 'why are we all being held hostage by this brat?"
If you recall, the anti-gay bigots in California were trying to get conservative Lt. Gov. Abel Maldono to appeal the Prop 8 case on behalf of the state while Gov. Schwarzenegger was out of the country. They're still mad he didn’t do it. Want to know his excuse? A gas pipeline exploded and killed people, and he prioritized it over Prop 8. The Prop...
- 9/16/2010
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Horror and exploitation film icon Lynn Lowry (Shivers, The Crazies, I Drink Your Blood) is enjoying a career renaissance of late (as profiled in the pages of Fangoria #296), and seems hellbent on reminding the world about her unique beauty and still-striking physical presence. Alongside the slew of new and upcoming features under her belt (she even contributed an effective cameo to the recent Crazies remake), Cult Epics is rereleasing a picture where we got to literally see what was under her belt: softcore pornslinger Radley Metzger’s notorious 1972 skin flick Score.
- 9/12/2010
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Chris Alexander)
- Fangoria
Many of the old guard Euro erotica filmmakers are either deceased or inactive, but Tinto Brass is still kicking out the filth. He is supposedly working on a 3D version of Caligula. Depending on your perspective, this is either a very good thing or an absolutely horrid thing. I lean on the side of this being a good thing, especially in light some of Tinto Brass' recent output. For example, consider his 2005 film Monamour, which was recently released on DVD by Cult Epics. This low-budget soft-core nugget is certainly flawed. It is also salaciously entertaining and shows the director's unique flair for portraying the female form.
A perpetually horny woman named Marta (Anna Jimskaia) is married to a wet noodle who just can't satisfy her. While admiring erect body parts on the frescoes in a museum in Mantua, she is mauled by a stranger. Although she resists, she is obviously curious.
A perpetually horny woman named Marta (Anna Jimskaia) is married to a wet noodle who just can't satisfy her. While admiring erect body parts on the frescoes in a museum in Mantua, she is mauled by a stranger. Although she resists, she is obviously curious.
- 9/12/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Most vampire movies suck like most porn, the pleasures of the flesh drained of all life. Fortunately there’s Daughters of Darkness, starring the intoxicating Delphine Seyrig as the blonde, femme fatale Countess Elizabeth Bathory. Harry Kümel’s very-70s flick is a sexy roundelay akin to Radley Metzger’s 1973 soft-core Score, only in this case the hungry horny couple are the blood lusty Countess and her secretary/lover/protégé Ilona Harczy played by Andrea Rau (with lips to rival Angelina Jolie’s – someone get Brangelina a vampire movie already!), looking like a knockoff Lulu with her flapper haircut. The objects of their carnal obsession, newlyweds Stefan (John Karlen, resembling a cross between Michael J. Fox and Andrew McCarthy but, alas, bo ...
- 10/29/2008
- by Lauren Wissot
- Spout
Most vampire movies suck like most porn, the pleasures of the flesh drained of all life. Fortunately there’s Daughters of Darkness, starring the intoxicating Delphine Seyrig as the blonde, femme fatale Countess Elizabeth Bathory. Harry Kümel’s very-70s flick is a sexy roundelay akin to Radley Metzger’s 1973 soft-core Score, only in this case the hungry horny couple are the blood lusty Countess and her secretary/lover/protégé Ilona Harczy played by Andrea Rau (with lips to rival Angelina Jolie’s – someone get Brangelina a vampire movie already!), looking like a knockoff Lulu with her flapper haircut. The objects of their carnal obsession, newlyweds Stefan (John Karlen, resembling a cross between Michael J. Fox and Andrew McCarthy but, alas, bo ...
- 10/29/2008
- by Lauren Wissot
- Spout
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