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Actor: Alvin Baltrop, Barton Benes, Larry Kramer, Roger McFarlane, Scott BromleyBrand: WOLFE VIDEO
Cinematographer: Joseph Lovett
Cinematographer: Michael Sean Kaminsky
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 71 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Wolfe Video
Movie Reviews of Gay Sex in the 70s
Movie Review: Not Widescreen!
Summary: 3 Stars
I enjoyed the movie (although it was a tad on the short side!) but I just wanted to note that this movie is NOT widescreen as advertised. Wolfe video apparently is confused about what widescreen means. If you go to the company's Web site (http://www.wolfevideo.com/products.asp?id=1001), Gay Sex in the 70s is listed as "Letterbox 4:3 Presentation," which is a contradiction (4:3 is full screen--not widescreen). There are no black bars at the top or bottom; it's just full screen. Just thought I'd let everyone know!
Summary of Gay Sex in the 70s
A fun romp through the explicitly sexual world of New York's Christopher St. during the gay rights era, director Joseph Lovett's documentary, Gay Sex in the '70s, consists of still photos of old haunts interspersed with interviews with the men who inhabited them, such as Roger McFarlane, Barton Benes, Tom Bianchi, Alvin Batrop, and Arnie Kantrowitz. Covering June 1969 to June 1981, Gay Sex in the '70s traces the history of pre-AIDS public sex through Stonewall, to the rise of gay culture as we know it today. Incorporating politics with debauched anecdotes of men cruising the piers, fornicating in the backs of trucks, and attending discos, bathhouses, and S&M clubs, the film is entertaining and educational. Some footage of legendary dance clubs, such as Les Mouches, Flamingo, Paradise Garage, and Studio 54, make this a good movie to watch even for straight disco aficionados. In fact, this film could have benefited from more historical live footage, as it relies too heavily on its interviewees. As a result, Gay Sex in the '70s at times suffers from sentimentality. But its friendly exploration into what one man called "the golden age of brotherhood and liberty" leaves a comforting feeling, as if listening to reminiscences from granddad. --Trinie DaltonThe end of an era. The beginning of a movement.Hailed by critics and audiences alike GAY SEX IN THE 70s director Joseph Lovett focuses his story on New York City between 1969 and 1981 using remarkable present-day interviews and stunning archival footage to take viewers back to days just after Stonewall. Lovett takes us back to the piers the trucks the Central Park rambles the back rooms and the baths. It was a time where repression and fear were replaced by a sexual explosion where shame became joy.Lovett interviews such luminaries from the scene as Larry Kramer and Tom Bianchi as well as fascinating regular guys exploring their freedom at the time. As the men continue to reminisce the story deepens. It wasn't just about sex they discovered but about creating friendships and a community that never existed before. But storm clouds emerge as the men talk about sexual obsession how drugs entered the scene at a larger scale and how unusual STDs began to appear.In recreating the gay story of the 70s Lovett shows that AIDS was not the only legacy of this period. It was also a time of brotherhood and laying the foundation of a political movement with its biggest battles still ahead. For younger people-those who came of age after the onset of the AIDS crisis-the film is a startling revelation of what everyday life was like in New York City at the time.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 754703762610 Manufacturer No: WOL4251D
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