In the late sixties and seventies, foreign films and foreign-film distributors found themselves sharing theaters with a burgeoning porn industry. In fact many serious European art films were promoted by enterprising theater owners in lurid and lascivious ways, suggesting some heady cinematic brew was actually a steamy orgy.
Of course, art theaters -- and porno -- have gone the way of DVD. But China has now revived this cinematic bait-and-switch.
Reuters recently chronicled the history of one small film,
Maiden Work, which was pushed it into the realm of pornography by the Chinese company that purchased it for distribution.
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posted by Peter Bowen @ 6/09/2004 02:55:00 PM
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