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Oddball Films presents Strange Sinema 94, a monthly screening of new finds, old gems and offbeat oddities from Oddball Films’ vast collection of 16mm film prints. Drawing on his collection of over 50,000 16mm film prints, Oddball Films director Stephen Parr has compiled his 94th program of classic, strange, offbeat and unusual films. This installment, Strange Sinema 94: Sex in Cinema is an eye-popping exploration of sex in cinema and all its genres from industrial films, commercials, animated features, amateur films, documentaries and musical shorts. Sex sells, they say and this program showcases the vast variety of outlets for it.
We lay the foundation for our program with The Most (1963), a rarely screened, award-winning biopic by Richard Ballentine and Gordon Sheppard, that chronicles Pl*yboy’s Hugh H*fner, the man known for selling sex to America and creating a socio-sexual cultural phenomenon. Insightful and ferocious, this doc uncovers the banal layers of H*fner’s lifestyle and narcissistic “genius”. Winner of the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Golden Gate Award. We continue our program with a jaw-dropping sexist commercial for Chemical Bank (1970s) “When her needs are financial her reaction is chemical” and a 1960s inspired occult spot for Bigelow Carpets followed by Wear Safety Shoes (1970s), a fetishistic advertisement for safety shoes.
Other gems include a peek inside Fredericks of Hollywood (1970s) and its sexist camp and over–the-top fanny pad saleswomen, Erik Is Here! (1960s) featuring a man, his Viking ship and his sexy cigar, Sadie the Sunbather (1948), a rare, titillating soft-core “nudie cutie” by Seaside films featuring a buxom female and a snarky sexist narrator and Clorets (1950s), a pseudo-scientific study of bad breath (!) and social stigmas. Other highlights include Texas Strip (1948), the musical Soundie that inspired the Devo video “Whip It”, where a singing cowboy flirts with cowgirls sitting on a fence, then strips one of them with his whip (oh my!), the trailer for American Dreamer (1971) the most pretentious, hilariously awful, mind-boggling bio-sex film to ever come from the coked out head of Dennis Hopper.
Other eye-popping shorts include highlights from the infamous New York Erotic Film Festival (1971), a fashion trip to polyester land as statuesque models show off Christian Dior Action Wear Hosiery and Yves St. Laurent belts and scarves amidst the picturesque ruins of Athens in The Greeks Have a Word For It (1969), Woody Woodpecker in romantic drag romances Wally the Walrus in The Gate Crasher (1969) and don’t miss The Magician (1970s) as he strips he-men naked through the wonders of stop-motion animation. We climax with a Salvo soap ad starring Wally Cox (TV's Mr. Peepers) as he plays two roles (one in drag) to sell laundry detergent and Dirty Duck (1974) Charles Swenson’s infamous animated cult film trailer produced by sleaze meister Roger Corman!
Date: Friday, November 6th, 2015 at 8:00PM. Admission: $10.00. Limited Seating. RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilm.com or (415) 558-8117. Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com