Vanessa Del Sol Movies
Miguel Pinero became a leading figure in New York's art scene during the 1970s as a poet, actor, and playwright whose vibrant, often pointed, work spoke directly to the lower classes and to disenfranchised minorities. As a founder of the influential Nuyorican Poets Cafe, his poetry soon became recognized as a forerunner to rap and hip-hop music. TV screenwriter turned director Leon Ichaso spins this impressionistic biographical look at this artist. Raised in an abusive family, Pinero (Benjamin Bratt) turns to streets for solace. Soon he is engaging in petty crime, drug dealing, and addiction. When he finds himself in Sing-Sing, he turns his experiences in prison into the play Short Eyes, which eventually garners him seven Tony awards in 1974. Uncomfortable with his new fame, he clings to his girlfriend, Sugar (Talisa Soto), and his childhood buddy, Miguel Algarin (Giancarlo Esposito), who is a literature professor and who co-founded the Nuyorican Cafe. Though Pinero makes cameos on such shows as Kojak, his art begins to suffer as he starts to succumb to his drug addictions. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Starring:
- Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, (more)
Prolific softcore filmmaker John Bacchus (The Erotic Witch Project) returned with this slapdash sequel to his popular Erotic Survivor, the lesbian-themed 2001 send-up of the hit reality series. This time, the action centers on two all-female tribes battling it out in what passes for the African veldt. Naturally, there is quite a bit of ribald humor and a lot of simulated girl-girl sex featuring Katie Jordon from the director's Gladiator Eroticus, Alannah Rhodes, Venessa Del Sol, and Syn DeVil from River Night. Bacchus introduces the various phases of competition and kinkiness with the same lackluster air one might expect from someone who has directed over a dozen similar films in barely three years. An odd entry in the studio's softcore line, as it features none of the four women who generally appear in Seduction's films and very little of the polished approach which made the series a success. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
