Let's jump back in time to a little over 16 years ago. It's the summer of 1998 and if you hit a gay bar or club in the continental United States, you could not miss Stars on 54's dance remake of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind." It was simply everywhere. The track was the promotional single for "54," a movie that promised a sexy look at the infamous New York City nightclub Studio 54 but couldn't ultimately live up to the marketing hype surrounding its release. The Miramax production was generating a ton of publicity because of its subject matter (one of the most legendary clubs of all-time), young up-and-coming stars such as Ryan Phillippe and Salma Hayek, the participation of Neve Campbell, who was coming off four straight hits (the first two "Screams," "The Craft" and "Wild Things"). Most buzzworthy of all, it was the first dramatic role for...
- 2/6/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
After screenings at Newfest, Frameline and Outfest, David Kittredge's "Pornography: A Thriller" opens at the Cinema Village in New York this weekend. The film depicts a gay porn star's mysterious disappearance, which becomes an obsession for both a writer and another adult film star, leading them into dark supernatural corners. In his review for Reverse Shot, Michael Koresky described it as "a male-oriented reboot of 'Mulholland Drive." Kittridge's feature film debut, ...
- 4/21/2010
- indieWIRE - People
After screenings at Newfest, Frameline and Outfest, David Kittredge's "Pornography: A Thriller" opens at the Cinema Village in New York this weekend. The film depicts a gay porn star's mysterious disappearance, which becomes an obsession for both a writer and another adult film star, leading them into dark supernatural corners. In his review for Reverse Shot, Michael Koresky described it as "a male-oriented reboot of 'Mulholland Drive." Kittridge's feature film debut, ...
- 4/21/2010
- Indiewire
Rating: 2/5
Writer: David Kittredge
Director: David Kittredge
Cast: Matthew Montgomery, Pete Scherer, Jared Grey, Walter Delmar
Studio: Triple Fire Productions
Writer and director David Kittredge’s feature film debut, Pornography: A Thriller may strike audiences with its bold title, but the film works more off of attempting to flummox its audience than titillating them with taunt flesh or genuine thrills. It’s most certainly an ambitious project, one that seems to draw comparisons to David Lynch left and right, but the film tackles so many different styles and stories that it’s hard for it to hold up over time.
Read more on Theatrical Review: Pornography: A Thriller…...
Writer: David Kittredge
Director: David Kittredge
Cast: Matthew Montgomery, Pete Scherer, Jared Grey, Walter Delmar
Studio: Triple Fire Productions
Writer and director David Kittredge’s feature film debut, Pornography: A Thriller may strike audiences with its bold title, but the film works more off of attempting to flummox its audience than titillating them with taunt flesh or genuine thrills. It’s most certainly an ambitious project, one that seems to draw comparisons to David Lynch left and right, but the film tackles so many different styles and stories that it’s hard for it to hold up over time.
Read more on Theatrical Review: Pornography: A Thriller…...
- 4/16/2010
- by Kate Erbland
- GordonandtheWhale
Peter Scherer (left), Dylan Vox
With a provocative title like Pornography, the new film by writer/director David Kittredge won’t have any trouble getting attention for itself.
That’s probably a good thing for the filmmakers, because the word-of-mouth is going to be bad.
The movie is pretty clearly a “gay” riff on David Lynch’s deliberately obtuse Mulholland Drive, which I happened to love. Both movies shift storylines midway through, and the same actors play different characters.
There’s more to reality than just what we see with our eyes, both movies say.
Since Pornography depends on the surprise of these shifting storylines – and, apparently, differing realities – I don’t want to give anything away.
But suffice to say that the movie involves an ex-adult movie star in the past who disappears under mysterious circumstances, a man in the present writing a book on the history of gay adult movies,...
With a provocative title like Pornography, the new film by writer/director David Kittredge won’t have any trouble getting attention for itself.
That’s probably a good thing for the filmmakers, because the word-of-mouth is going to be bad.
The movie is pretty clearly a “gay” riff on David Lynch’s deliberately obtuse Mulholland Drive, which I happened to love. Both movies shift storylines midway through, and the same actors play different characters.
There’s more to reality than just what we see with our eyes, both movies say.
Since Pornography depends on the surprise of these shifting storylines – and, apparently, differing realities – I don’t want to give anything away.
But suffice to say that the movie involves an ex-adult movie star in the past who disappears under mysterious circumstances, a man in the present writing a book on the history of gay adult movies,...
- 4/8/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Note: This blog is a continuation of a post we ran yesterday. To read the first installment, please click here!
Day Three
On Sunday I tried to make it to the Vindication panel to see writer/director Bart Mastronardi and his cast, but just couldn’t do it as I had NewFest commitments. Later I did race from NewFest (in Chelsea) to the con to catch the Vindication screening. I got there about 10 minutes late, but the room was standing room only. I’ve already seen the film, so I’m glad my butt wasn’t taking a seat from someone who hasn’t seen this really f-ing awesome film. Keep an eye out in this blog for more info and interviews from the cast and crew in the near future.
Mastronardi had the amazing fortune of getting a copy of the film into the hands of Clive Barker, who...
Day Three
On Sunday I tried to make it to the Vindication panel to see writer/director Bart Mastronardi and his cast, but just couldn’t do it as I had NewFest commitments. Later I did race from NewFest (in Chelsea) to the con to catch the Vindication screening. I got there about 10 minutes late, but the room was standing room only. I’ve already seen the film, so I’m glad my butt wasn’t taking a seat from someone who hasn’t seen this really f-ing awesome film. Keep an eye out in this blog for more info and interviews from the cast and crew in the near future.
Mastronardi had the amazing fortune of getting a copy of the film into the hands of Clive Barker, who...
- 6/15/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Sean Abley)
- Fangoria
Somehow the gay scheduling gods and the horror scheduling gods saw fit to allow Fango’s NYC Weekend Of Horrors and NewFest: The New York Lgbt Film Festival to overlap this year. Which meant that I got to fly to NYC for both the world premiere of my latest gay thriller, Pornography, and some good, fanboy geekout.
The downside to film fests and conventions is - I really hate crowds. I’m a very shy person, believe it or not, and being dropped into a crowd of people I don’t know is pretty much torture. (Strangely, I love to talk in front of a crowd.) I’ve learned to handle it because I have to, but… blech. So I have to give big ups to Alan Rowe Kelly, Bart Mastronardi and Jerry Murdock for letting me tag along all weekend.
Day One
I arrived at the con on Friday...
The downside to film fests and conventions is - I really hate crowds. I’m a very shy person, believe it or not, and being dropped into a crowd of people I don’t know is pretty much torture. (Strangely, I love to talk in front of a crowd.) I’ve learned to handle it because I have to, but… blech. So I have to give big ups to Alan Rowe Kelly, Bart Mastronardi and Jerry Murdock for letting me tag along all weekend.
Day One
I arrived at the con on Friday...
- 6/14/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Sean Abley)
- Fangoria
Sean Abley is about to scare you again.
The director of the recent Sf/horro themed Socket has produced a new twisted tale of pain, dread, death -- and porn. Directed by David Kittredge, who edited Abley's Socket feature, Pornography is, according to Abley, a "paranormal thriller set in the world gay adult video."
“It’s about what happens when a porn star disappears in the ’90s," Kittredge explains. " 15 years later, two guys try to figure out what happened. The mystery of what occurred kind of recedes as they search, and the obsession with finding out what was real and what was fantasy about pornography in general, and how they blur, becomes the real journey. It’s kind of about searching for something that you don’t really want to know the answer to, but you have to keep probing.”
Starring Mathew Montgomery and featuring FX make-up by Gage Munster,...
The director of the recent Sf/horro themed Socket has produced a new twisted tale of pain, dread, death -- and porn. Directed by David Kittredge, who edited Abley's Socket feature, Pornography is, according to Abley, a "paranormal thriller set in the world gay adult video."
“It’s about what happens when a porn star disappears in the ’90s," Kittredge explains. " 15 years later, two guys try to figure out what happened. The mystery of what occurred kind of recedes as they search, and the obsession with finding out what was real and what was fantasy about pornography in general, and how they blur, becomes the real journey. It’s kind of about searching for something that you don’t really want to know the answer to, but you have to keep probing.”
Starring Mathew Montgomery and featuring FX make-up by Gage Munster,...
- 5/27/2009
- doorQ.com
Fangoria.com’s Gay of the Dead blogger/filmmaker Sean Abley sent over word on his latest production, Pornography, which will have its world premiere in New York City Monday, June 8 at NewFest, The New York Lgbt Film Festival. Written and directed by first time feature filmmaker David Kittredge, who edited Abley’s movie Socket, Pornography is described by Abley as “a paranormal thriller set in the world of gay adult video.”
Kittredge elaborates, “It’s about what happens when a porn star disappears in the ’90s, and 15 years later, two guys try to figure out what happened. The mystery of what occurred kind of recedes as they search, and the obsession with finding out what was real and what was fantasy about pornography in general, and how they blur, becomes the real journey. It’s kind of about searching for something that you don’t really want to know the answer to,...
Kittredge elaborates, “It’s about what happens when a porn star disappears in the ’90s, and 15 years later, two guys try to figure out what happened. The mystery of what occurred kind of recedes as they search, and the obsession with finding out what was real and what was fantasy about pornography in general, and how they blur, becomes the real journey. It’s kind of about searching for something that you don’t really want to know the answer to,...
- 5/26/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Samuel Zimmerman)
- Fangoria
If his career keeps moving in the same direction, Matthew Montgomery may end up being the gay Parker Posey. Having played leads in at least seven independent features in just five years, plus another handful of supporting roles, he has established his indie street cred at a time when gay cinema seems to be exploding. Fans of gay cinema will probably remember Montgomery from Gone, But Not Forgotten, Long-term Relationship and the supernatural-tinged Back Soon.
Getting his start in Reign Of The Dead, a living dead short lensed in and around “Zombie Ground Zero,” Pittsburgh, he’s made his way up the indie food chain and appeared in other genre films, including Socket (which I wrote and directed, natch), Fear House and the upcoming Pornography.
But Montgomery isn’t just an actor in horror and sci-fi flicks; he’s a fan of them as well. A professed sci-fi nerd, Montogmery...
Getting his start in Reign Of The Dead, a living dead short lensed in and around “Zombie Ground Zero,” Pittsburgh, he’s made his way up the indie food chain and appeared in other genre films, including Socket (which I wrote and directed, natch), Fear House and the upcoming Pornography.
But Montgomery isn’t just an actor in horror and sci-fi flicks; he’s a fan of them as well. A professed sci-fi nerd, Montogmery...
- 3/23/2009
- Fangoria
As a sidebar before we jump into today’s topic, I want to keep my promise that this blog won’t just be about politics, or even gay horror. Sometimes it will just be about hot guys. Case in point: Todd Farmer, screenwriter of Jason X (with my favorite in the series after the original) and My Bloody Valentine 3D (with Zane Smith), which I saw on opening weekend and absolutely loved.
I (briefly) interviewed Farmer for a project called “Expanded Books” (formerly “Book Look”) when my friend Peter Bracke’s Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History Of Friday The 13th had its release party. At the time I thought, “Uh…he cute.”
Cut To: My Bloody Valentine 3D. I go see the flick with a gaggle of homos and what are we treated to? Naked Todd Farmer! Ok, more like naked Todd Farmer’s ass, but still! As much...
I (briefly) interviewed Farmer for a project called “Expanded Books” (formerly “Book Look”) when my friend Peter Bracke’s Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History Of Friday The 13th had its release party. At the time I thought, “Uh…he cute.”
Cut To: My Bloody Valentine 3D. I go see the flick with a gaggle of homos and what are we treated to? Naked Todd Farmer! Ok, more like naked Todd Farmer’s ass, but still! As much...
- 2/4/2009
- Fangoria
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