Deep Six

Garry Maddox at smh.com in Australia, where Inside Deep Throat is scheduled to open midyear, says the documentary he saw at the Berllin Film Festival is "a lively, often-comic account" of how "a director who was a hairdresser until he learnt about the sexual revolution from women visiting his salon" made an explicit porn film that took in millions.

Behind the documentary are two filmmakers who, this week in Berlin, in natty black suits and ties, resembled gay undertakers. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have made films and television shows on Tammy Faye Bakker, Monica Lewinsky, RuPaul, Andy Warhol, rent boys, a gay high school in Texas, gay republicans, the history of pornography, Hitler's rumoured homosexuality and even cuddly toy fetishists.