In my last post about the lineup in next month’s San Francisco International Film festival, I reviewed a selection of films I’m excited about, which is good, because their schedule isn’t online yet (and in fact my table neighbor at the cafe asked to browse my SFIFF film calendar, as they’re not available yet). If you look closely and spend a bit of time with my links, you’ll see a few interesting things. One is that for the controversial film about Golden Gate Bridge suicides (The Bridge) I link to a January 2005 article about bridge officials being angry about the filmmaker’s unclear motives with bridge officials when asking to film the bridge (they say he lied and tried to block the film from being shown), and the next post links to a GG bridge jumpers post on a blog, where if you scroll down, you’ll see a comment from the filmmaker dating from 2004 stating he was making an documentary and asking people to email him. It’s all interesting.
But the sex films…. ahhh, the sex films. I found two trailers on YouTube for the porn musical that’s in the lineup — and one of them is pretty much one of the most arousing things I’ve ever seen, way hotter than actual porn (though I understand the movie is explicit). The other clip is a surreal Busby Berkeley tribute that, put with the other trailer, makes this an astounding film. Watch them both after the jump, and marvel that it’s the same movie.
Super yucky update on this film: Tiny Nibbles reader Steve tells me, “Your reaction may vary, but describing THE WAYWARD CLOUD as an ‘anti-porn musical’ might be more accurate than calling it a porn musical. It’s extremely explicit, but the final 2 sex scenes are so unerotic – and sex-negative far beyond a critique of porn misogyny, to my mind – that I felt like I’d spent 20 minutes banging my head against a wall. It’s about as disturbing and unsexy as IRREVERSIBLE, if you saw that. As an example, the penultimate scene consists of the lead character raping an unconscious or dead woman at length, filmed by a porn crew.”
That’s really fucked up; the description in the festival program doesn’t describe anything like that and the trailers don’t hint at it either. My reaction *doesn’t* vary. I’ll skip this film, for sure. Looks like the fest is going to be one hell of a mixed bag… Makes me want to get my hands on a copy of the festival’s film criteria.
That clip gave me a new fantasy. Maybe I’ll find someone to re-enact it with during the festival. But this next clip of a song from the film is just as awesome in a totally different way, complete with a sweet gender bent:
