Rock Me Linda Lovelace

Sarah Rowland, in her Montreal Mirror cover story on the "fantastic fuckumentary" Inside Deep Throat and its directors, says 1972's Deep Throat "can still get it up long enough to incite a little controversy."

Predictably, Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey have come under fire from blowhard feminists, including Katherine McKinnon, for, among other things, promoting rape, dismissing the tragedy of Lovelace and dissing the women's movement. Add to that, we're talking just minutes after they've read Manohla Dargis' New York Times review, which accuses them of "historical reductionism," and you have two bitchy filmmakers.

"It's just a muddle-headed wrong review," says Bailey. "It's so frustrating that the lens through which some people are looking at this film is so distorted by prejudice, they're not really seeing the film that's actually been made."

Narrated by everyone's favourite perv Dennis Hopper, the movie that has actually been made is an earnest and ambitious, albeit MTV-paced, attempt at addressing all these contentious issues in a very limited period of time. It should be noted that most reviews have either been rave or at worst, slightly banal criticisms of the campy whiplash editing.