March 4, 2005

And the Hits Just Keep on Coming

People are still writing reviews of Inside Deep Throat. Here's another one, from Gay.com.

Gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato -- who brought their playful, peppy, "Entertainment Tonight" style to documentaries about Ellen DeGeneres, Tammy Faye Bakker and "Party Monster" Michael Alig -- tackle the notorious 1972 porn film "Deep Throat" in this jagged but wildly entertaining documentary. The filmmakers are working with a lot here -- "Deep Throat" came to represent many things in the mid-1970s. (More)

There's this one from The Tufts Daily:

First there was "Kinsey," and now there's "Inside Deep Throat" - the latest movie to address America's obsession with sexual morality, and expose a hypocrisy that became evident in the '70s, yet has continued to thrive , safely delivered from the Nixon administration right through to the Bush era. Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato of "Party Monster" fame, "Inside Deep Throat" is a vastly entertaining documentary about the low-budget '70s porn movie "Deep Throat." Fast-paced and hard-hitting, the documentary comes across as an illicit history lesson that is at times hilarious and at others somewhat difficult to, um, swallow. (More)

And this from the student newspaper at Fairfield University:

The commentaries are unavoidably interspersed with graphic clips from the original film, which merits the NC-17 rating. Still, the film's producers would have you believe that "Inside Deep Throat" is pure family fun. I'm not sure what your families are like, but let's just say this isn't a Disney movie. Despite all this, co-directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato and producer Brian Grazer (the Oscar-winning filmmaker of "A Beautiful Mind") do an excellent job at legitimatizing this film as a true documentary. It's abundantly clear, at least, that they did their research. The film features a depth and breadth of commentaries and sources you simply wouldn't expect. Indeed, the film references a variety of research, from D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Love" to the final report of the Attorney General's Commission on pornography. (More)