Annie Sprinkle Movies

Adult cinema's lustiest ladies reveal it all as the hottest segments from the legendary late-night cable show Midnight Blue offer a series of intimate encounters with Debbie Does Dallas star Bambi Woods, masturbation guru Annie Sprinkle, The Devil in Miss Jones star Georgina Spelvin, and many more stars from the era affectionately referred to as the "Golden Age of Porn." Watch snow-white innocence take a swift blow as former Ivory Soap girl Marilyn Chambers ponders the prevalence of sex in showbiz before proving without a doubt that she is definitely not a racist, and after notorious bad girl Veri Knotti performs "the most shocking act in adult film" before a live audience at New York's Melody Burlesque, the smoldering Seka discusses the benefits and drawbacks of working with porn legend John Holmes. Additional commercials for the New York swingers clubs of yesteryear, adult theaters, and shady spas take viewers back to an uninhibited time when sex was in style and porno chic ignited the box office. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Filmmaker Monika Treut, who has made a career out of documenting the outer edges of human sexual expression, takes a look at a group of politically- and socially-conscious transsexuals in a study of what one interview subject calls "gender elimination phenomena." Participants include adult film star and performance artist Annie Sprinkle, internet activist and self-styled "Goddess of Cyberspace" Sandy Stone, and the patrons of San Francisco Club Confidential, a popular meeting place for "gendernaut" activists. Gendernauts was shown in the "Panorama" section of the 1999 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A video of four short films on controversial subjects. A profile of "Sexual Personae" author Camille Paglia; a documentary on Annie Sprikle, pornographic film star; a profile of Carol, a woman who supports S-M; and a short look at transsexualism. ~ Rovi

Over the course of the '80s and into the early '90s, avant-garde film director Monica Truet shot four twenty-minute documentaries without any direct link to one another save a thematic connection: each studies a woman who defines and commits her own form of "transgressive" sexuality. Truet then compiled the four shorts into her 1992 shockumentary Female Misbehavior. All told, the film focuses on acts that, in the eyes of many, would be considered wantonly perverse, but have been rethought, morally, by the film's subjects, and incorporated into their lives as 'normal.' In the first short, "Bondage," an S&M performance artist named Carol describes in detail the warm and welcoming sensations she receives from severe breast torture; she then pins the alligator clip of her microphone to one of her nipples, as a live demonstration. The second short, "Annie," focuses on former hardcore porn mainstay-cum-female activist Annie Sprinkle (star of the 1982 Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle and of Truet's own My Father is Coming), who engages in performance art by offering viewers from the audience (and Truet's camera) a glimpse into her cervix, via speculum. The third short, "Dr. Paglia," concerns the controversial spokeswoman Dr. Camille Paglia, a celibate "lesbian bisexual" whose rapid-fire, über-confrontational delivery has imparted to her a wealth of notoriety; she delivers an extended on-camera dissertation on why she has such difficulty attracting other women. And the film's fourth segment, "Max," constitutes an extended interview with Max Molerio, born Anita Molerio, a tough-as-nails lesbian biker from Germany who, at the time of the film, is living round the clock as a man and waiting on a sex change operation. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

In this comedy, a lesbian lass emigrates from Germany to New York to become an actress. Once there she begins sharing an apartment with a gay fellow. Things are just dandy until her straight-laced dad Hans announces that he wants to visit and meet the husband she had written so much about. Of course there is no husband and Vicky must think of something post haste. Finally she manages to talk her leather-wearing, ultra effete roomie to pose as her hubby. Things go from strange to stranger when Hans finally arrives and both father and daughter begin embarking upon a variety of adventures in the very foreign Big Apple. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

This off-beat documentary looks into the skewed and frequently depraved lives of some of New York City's most bizarre underground performance artists. Many scenes contain graphic violence, nudity and vulgar language that may offend certain viewers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

In this romantic comedy, a freshman weenie finds himself the new project of the Bi Beta Kappa frat boys who want to turn him into a real ladies man so he can win the love of a luscious librarian. Believe it or not, the story is based on Cyrano de Bergerac. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi