Indie Sex: Taboos (2001) (TV)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Directors:

Lisa Ades
Lesli Klainberg

Genre:

Documentary

Cast

John Waters	...	Himself
Elvis Mitchell	...	Himself
Allison Anders	...	Herself
Jami Bernard	...	Herself
Atom Egoyan	...	Himself
Miguel Arteta	...	Himself
Don Roos	...	Himself
Robert Lantos	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Pierson	...	Himself

Directed by
Lisa Ades
Lesli Klainberg

Produced by
Lisa Ades	....	producer
Alison Palmer Bourke	....	executive producer
Caroline Kaplan	....	executive producer
Lesli Klainberg	....	producer
Ann Rose	....	associate producer
Jonathan Sehring	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Douglas J. Cuomo

Cinematography by
Peter Nelson
Buddy Squires
John Tanzer
Thaddeus Wadleigh

Film Editing by
George O'Donnell

Sound Department
Rod Chicorli	....	sound
Mariusz Glabinski	....	sound editor
Marlena Grzaslewicz	....	sound editor
Michael Reilly	....	sound
Juan Rodríguez	....	sound
Dominick Tavella	....	sound re-recording mixer
David Weinstock	....	production sound mixer
John Zecca	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Jake Diamond	....	assistant camera

Editorial Department
Marianna Ellenburg	....	assistant editor
Jon Fordham	....	on-line editor
Chad Goslee	....	assistant editor
Bill Stokes	....	colorist

Other crew
Daniel Adler	....	production assistant
Dave Donars	....	production coordinator
Abigail Kende	....	clearance services
Monica Walters	....	production assistant
Alex Webb	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Orchard Films

Distributors

• Independent Film Channel (IFC)

Other Companies

• Du Art Film and Video  color grading
• Sound One Corporation  sound re-recording
• Tele Cinema  clearance services

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:R | USA:Unrated

Company:

Orchard Films

Movie Connections:

Features Bitter Moon (1992)

Good Documentary

Indie Sex: Taboos (2007)

*** (out of 4)

Documentary taking a look at Hollywood and various sexual taboos. The director would go onto make three more of these documentaries and she certainly handled and researched the material a lot better then. This film here has a lot of good information but at the same time there's a lot of films overlooked. The other documentaries in this series did a great job at covering Hollywood, foreign films and underground films but this one here pretty much just looks at Hollywood. There's mention of Luis Bunuel in terms of sexuality influences America but that's about it. There are countless foreign movies that tried real sex in films yet this documentary basically covers later day films that did it and called them ground breaking. Naturally Last Tango in Paris gets some discussion as well as the recent Shortbus. If you're new to this type of thing then I'm sure you'll learn a lot here but there's a lot more out there to learn and not all the information here is too accurate.