Thinking XXX

This is a making of a book movie. Let me explain.
XXX 30 Porn-Star Portraits is a large format photobook done by the balding guy(Timothy Greenfield-Sanders) in the picture above. This book is part photos as art, part cerebral ruminations on porn, and 50% porn --if the bible thumpers are to be catered to. 50% because the central conceit of this book is: here is a porn star naked, here is the same porn star, in the same pose, clothed. It celebrates/examines the power of images on each of us, and society, without being didactic.
It is salted with several cool written pieces by the likes of Lou Reed, Karen Finley, Salman Rushdie and John Malkovich. Oh yeah-the pictures are pretty neat too.
"Thinking XXX" is a making of this book documentary. A quick intro to the photographer and his equipment is followed by interviews with the stars and the writers. Everyone with an opinion for or against porn, or an interest in celebrity, film and society needs to see this film.
Recommended. The dvd has a truckload of extra interviews and the full length versions of the excerpted interviews.
Recommended