Skin-Flicks - Lilith Likes to Watch
Title: Skin-Flicks Year: 1978 Starring: Tony Hudson, Sharon Mitchell, Jamie Gillis Director: Gerard Damiano Synopsis: A young director is a struggling filmmaker making hardcore features for the mob. His latest feature, he hopes, will be his big break into the world of “mainstream” film-making, but will the mafia allow him to realize his dream? - Via Letterboxd . Lilith's Notes: More Damiano genius. "I'll love you if you hurt me." Oh Damiano, you've done it again. What starts out as a generic film about "the biz" slowly transforms into a rumination on the seedy nature of the industry. It Trojan horses the viewer into confronting the illicit behind the scenes darkness of the movies we so readily and willingly consume. Harry (Played by Tony Hudson) is a director of adult films. He's a little more of a visionary than your typical smut-smith and seems to want his performers to be comfortable. To finance his flick, he gets in bed with the mob. A...