The new R-rated erotica Fifty Shades of Grey, based on E L James's novels, has dominated the box office. But what happens when its subject matter finds its way into real life? The steamy love story stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in some compromising sex positions that feature all kinds of kinky objects ranging from blindfolds to ropes. But according to research and data, it's not always as smooth sailing as it may appear on the silver screen. Research dating back to 1991 from the Consumer Product Safety Commission reveals that men and women, young and old, are experimenting sexually,...
- 2/17/2015
- by Jacqueline Andriakos, @jandriakos
- PEOPLE.com
The new R-rated erotica Fifty Shades of Grey, based on E L James's novels, has dominated the box office. But what happens when its subject matter finds its way into real life? The steamy love story stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in some compromising sex positions that feature all kinds of kinky objects ranging from blindfolds to ropes. But according to research and data, it's not always as smooth sailing as it may appear on the silver screen. Research dating back to 1991 from the Consumer Product Safety Commission reveals that men and women, young and old, are experimenting sexually,...
- 2/17/2015
- by Jacqueline Andriakos, @jandriakos
- PEOPLE.com
We’re teaming with The Current for the next two months to deliver 10 short films from 10 different directors, focused on social trends explored through cinema. The fifth short film, Candy, bounces between images of a woman walking through crowded streets and explaining her sexuality while seated on a stool that definitely wasn’t designed for her. As she strolls, she appears to relish the attention, but as she describes a personal evolution, it seems more likely that she holds her head up high because she knows a secret to life. What is true power? What is true self-esteem? How we do we see members of the opposite sex? Here’s one intriguing viewpoint. “Passion, curiosity and thirst for knowledge have defined my work and career; I am always willing to learn, and embrace new ideas and perspectives,” says director Daniel Salan. “I currently work part time as an Art Director / Graphic designer, and...
- 10/31/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Lindsay Lohan may not have worked too much in the past, say, decade, but she has apparently been werkin'. Go girl! Sex positive! At least that much can be deduced from In Touch Weekly's latest issue, which claims this is a list made by Lindsay naming 36 of her famous lovers: The list, which was jotted down on what appears to be a Scattergories playing card, was made while LiLo and her friends were staying at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, In Touch claims. The names that are blurred out are assumed to be "for legal reasons." In Touch Weekly also says that the list "could rock several Hollywood relationships to the core." Potentially (probably?) unrelated, but in a preview for her reality...
- 3/12/2014
- E! Online
Tags: Pretty Little LiarsPretty Little Liars recapsShay MitchellTroian BellisarioAshley BensonLucy HaleLindsey ShawIMDb
Previously on Pretty Little Liars, Hanna flashed back to the time when Alison flashed back to the time when she murdered her twin sister because she was tired of sharing a Barbie Glam Convertible with her. Later, Alison was murdered by everyone in the greater Philadelphia area who possessed the ability to grasp a field hockey stick. Emily fell in love with Paige, who was summarily kidnapped, bound, gagged, re-closeted, and almost knifed to death by Maya's former drug camp stalker, Cousin Nate. But Emily killed him instead, so that score, at least, was settled. Hanna tried to stay away from Caleb because her lot in life is to either hit or be hit with a car once every moon cycle, but his hobo hair is like a siren song, and she continued to crash herself against him.
Previously on Pretty Little Liars, Hanna flashed back to the time when Alison flashed back to the time when she murdered her twin sister because she was tired of sharing a Barbie Glam Convertible with her. Later, Alison was murdered by everyone in the greater Philadelphia area who possessed the ability to grasp a field hockey stick. Emily fell in love with Paige, who was summarily kidnapped, bound, gagged, re-closeted, and almost knifed to death by Maya's former drug camp stalker, Cousin Nate. But Emily killed him instead, so that score, at least, was settled. Hanna tried to stay away from Caleb because her lot in life is to either hit or be hit with a car once every moon cycle, but his hobo hair is like a siren song, and she continued to crash herself against him.
- 10/24/2012
- by stuntdouble
- AfterEllen.com
#37. Lola Versus - Daryl Wein This might be the year where writer-director David Wein gets to showcase his skillset in January instead of March. A SXSW regular (2008's Sex Positive and 2009's Breaking Upwards), Wein has parlayed a rising indie career with co-consiprator Zoe Lister-Jones into a Fox Searchlight backed production -- the distributor bought the project at the script phase and set him up with old school thesps Bill Pullman and Debra Winger and the next gen in Hamish Linklater and Greta Gerwig. With the film currently in post, we think there is a good chance for Lola Versus to show up in Park City. Gist: Scripted by Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones, this tells the story of Lola (Gerwig), a 29-year-old woman dumped by her longtime boyfriend Luke (Kinnaman) just three weeks before their wedding. With the help of her close friends Henry (Linklater) and Alice (Lister-Jones), Lola...
- 11/10/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
By Robert W. Welkos
When Daryl Wein informed Zoe Lister-Jones that he was thinking of writing a screenplay about a 20-something New York Jewish couple who experiment with an “open relationship,” she didn’t exactly warm to the idea.
In fact, Wein recalled, “Zoe did not like that at all.”
And who’d blame her? What young woman (perhaps besides one of Tiger Woods’ flings) would want her love life splashed all over the big screen?
In real life, Zoe had come to Daryl one day with a proposition: she wanted a “break” from their two-year serious relationship. Not a break-up, she said, but a break. Fearful and unsure where this would end up, Wein said they agreed to take days off from each other, see other people, and see where it goes?
The more he thought about it, however, the more Wein saw cinematic possibilities in their suddenly free-to-be-with-someone-else lifestyle.
When Daryl Wein informed Zoe Lister-Jones that he was thinking of writing a screenplay about a 20-something New York Jewish couple who experiment with an “open relationship,” she didn’t exactly warm to the idea.
In fact, Wein recalled, “Zoe did not like that at all.”
And who’d blame her? What young woman (perhaps besides one of Tiger Woods’ flings) would want her love life splashed all over the big screen?
In real life, Zoe had come to Daryl one day with a proposition: she wanted a “break” from their two-year serious relationship. Not a break-up, she said, but a break. Fearful and unsure where this would end up, Wein said they agreed to take days off from each other, see other people, and see where it goes?
The more he thought about it, however, the more Wein saw cinematic possibilities in their suddenly free-to-be-with-someone-else lifestyle.
- 4/9/2010
- by Robert W. Welkos
- Hollywoodnews.com
It's scary for me to realize that AIDS is still such a big issue in my lifetime, even though I (and the rest of my generation) grew up in a world in which the disease is hardly a mystery and its prevention is common knowledge. Depressing, isn't it, to think that we still inhabit a society where even teaching safe sex has to be a battle?
Despite recent breakthroughs, a readily-available cure is still out of reach. This much is terrifying in itself. It blows my mind to imagine a time when AIDS was such a specter of death that it was communicated only in hysteria. I start to compare it to an epidemic I can relate to today, like swine flu, and I instantly feel stupid for even making it. It's much more serious and pandemic, that much is obvious.
So then the question becomes, why wouldn't it still rouse that level of panic?...
Despite recent breakthroughs, a readily-available cure is still out of reach. This much is terrifying in itself. It blows my mind to imagine a time when AIDS was such a specter of death that it was communicated only in hysteria. I start to compare it to an epidemic I can relate to today, like swine flu, and I instantly feel stupid for even making it. It's much more serious and pandemic, that much is obvious.
So then the question becomes, why wouldn't it still rouse that level of panic?...
- 7/10/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Richard Berkowitz In Director Daryl Wein'S Sex Positive. Courtesy Regent Releasing. Most young filmmakers quickly define themselves in terms of both their creative roles and genre specialties, however Daryl Wein has so far benefited from doing exactly the opposite. Born in Santa Monica in 1983, Wein grew up in Connecticut and commuted to auditions in New York City as he pursued a career as a child actor, mostly in commercials. At the same time, Wein's father's interest in chronicling their family life on home video lead the young thespian to become fascinated with being on the other side of the camera. At the age of 16, he made Life is a Train, a short film which won him an award at the International Young Filmmaker's Festival in New...
- 6/24/2009
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Indie Roundup looks back at the past seven (or, sometimes, eight) days of news in the indie film community, along with a peak ahead to what's coming soon.
Opening. The highest-profile "indie" is Woody Allen's Whatever Works, wiith Tatia Rosenthal's stop-motion animation feature $9.99, Francois Velle's NYC drama The Narrows, Andy Abrahams Wilson's Lyme disease doc Under Our Skin, and Tommy Wirkola's Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow vying for attention on a limited number of screens. On the festival circuit, CineVegas drew to a close on Monday (Eric D. Snider covered it for us), the same night that Silverdocs opened in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Los Angeles Film Festival starts tonight and the New York Asian Film Festival kicks off tomorrow.
Box Office. Last weekend saw several strong openings, with Robert Kenner's doc Food, Inc. leading the way ($20,171 per-screen), followed by Duncan Jones' sci-fi drama...
Opening. The highest-profile "indie" is Woody Allen's Whatever Works, wiith Tatia Rosenthal's stop-motion animation feature $9.99, Francois Velle's NYC drama The Narrows, Andy Abrahams Wilson's Lyme disease doc Under Our Skin, and Tommy Wirkola's Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow vying for attention on a limited number of screens. On the festival circuit, CineVegas drew to a close on Monday (Eric D. Snider covered it for us), the same night that Silverdocs opened in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Los Angeles Film Festival starts tonight and the New York Asian Film Festival kicks off tomorrow.
Box Office. Last weekend saw several strong openings, with Robert Kenner's doc Food, Inc. leading the way ($20,171 per-screen), followed by Duncan Jones' sci-fi drama...
- 6/19/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
opening wide The Taking of Pelham 123: You know what would be a real disaster? The rush hour that follows this hijacking, what with the East Side subway lines shut down as a crime scene. Oy. Imagine That: This could have been an awesome satire. Imagine this: credit default swaps and interest-only mortgages are the invention of some Wall Street asshole who was taking career advice from his dreamy kindergartner daughter. opening limited Moon: Ground control to Sam Rockwell: it’s time to leave your capsule if you dare. Know what’s really funny? Director Duncan Jones is David Bowie’s son. [official site] Food, Inc.: Remember when Fast Food Nation warned us that there’s shit in the meat? This documentary informs us that it’s still there. [IMDb] Sex Positive: Doc about early AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz who basically invented safe sex. Insert condom-wrapped joke here.
- 6/12/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
"Let me get this gay stuff out of my system." Richard Berkowitz (pictured above in both images) did not set to be an AIDS activist, or even to live openly as a gay man. He fully intended to meet and marry a woman, settle down, and raise a family, which would have pleased his liberal New Jersey Jewish Democratic family. Enrolling at Rutgers University in the early 1970s, however, changed his life.
Berkowitz's journey from college student to S&M hustler to safe sex advocate to gay community outcast is carefully chronicled in Sex Positive, a documentary by Daryl Wein that opens today in New York after a successful series of festival screenings. (Regent Releasing will open it in Los Angeles and Denver next week and in San Francisco on July 3.) Berkowitz is nearly forgotten today, despite co-writing two key texts that introduced the concept of "safe sex" and generated considerable controversy upon their publication.
Berkowitz's journey from college student to S&M hustler to safe sex advocate to gay community outcast is carefully chronicled in Sex Positive, a documentary by Daryl Wein that opens today in New York after a successful series of festival screenings. (Regent Releasing will open it in Los Angeles and Denver next week and in San Francisco on July 3.) Berkowitz is nearly forgotten today, despite co-writing two key texts that introduced the concept of "safe sex" and generated considerable controversy upon their publication.
- 6/12/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
Before we look back at the past week, let's peak at what's opening this weekend: Francis Ford Coppola's family drama Tetro; Duncan Jones' sci-fi trip Moon; Daryl Wein's AIDS activist doc Sex Positive; Tommy Wirkola's Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow; Robert Kenner's appetizing (maybe) doc Food, Inc.; and Chai Vasarhelyi's music / tolerance plea Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love (poster and more info after the jump).
Box Office. Opening in four theaters, Sam Mendes' Away We Go scored a smashing $32,603 per-screen average last weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. The road trip comedy / drama, starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph as anxious, expectant parents searching for a place to raise their family, far outpaced other debuting indies, which had, on their own terms, decent returns: Seraphine ($6,640 per-screen at four theaters), Unmistaken Child ($6,293, one screen), and 24 City ($6,082, one screen). Our critic William Goss feels...
Box Office. Opening in four theaters, Sam Mendes' Away We Go scored a smashing $32,603 per-screen average last weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. The road trip comedy / drama, starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph as anxious, expectant parents searching for a place to raise their family, far outpaced other debuting indies, which had, on their own terms, decent returns: Seraphine ($6,640 per-screen at four theaters), Unmistaken Child ($6,293, one screen), and 24 City ($6,082, one screen). Our critic William Goss feels...
- 6/11/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
Most young filmmakers quickly define themselves in terms of both their creative roles and genre specialties, however Daryl Wein has so far benefited from doing exactly the opposite. Born in Santa Monica in 1983, Wein grew up in Connecticut and commuted to auditions in New York City as he pursued a career as a child actor, mostly in commercials. At the same time, Wein's father's interest in chronicling their family life on home video lead the young thespian to become fascinated with being on the other side of the camera. At the age of 16, he made Life is a Train, a short film which won him an award at the International Young Filmmaker's Festival in New York, as well as the inaugural You Belong in Connecticut Young Media Maker Award. He went...
- 6/10/2009
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Richard Berkowitz, the man at the center of Daryl Wein’s intelligent and engaging “Sex Positive,” is the ideal documentary subject: with his combination of self-effacement and daunting confidence, Berkowitz easily commands the screen throughout its short running time. Such an appealing figure is especially crucial for a film that focuses on a subject as potentially didactic and strictly educational as the promotion of safe sex for the gay community. Yet director …...
- 6/9/2009
- Indiewire
Opening on Friday in New York and expanding to other cities through the rest of the month in concert with Gay Pride, Daryl Wein’s Sex Positive is a documentary portrait of Richard Berkowitz, an early AIDS activist who helped to invent the concept of safe sex. Working as a team with writer/performer Michael Callen and doctor Joseph Sonnabend (the three collaborated on the groundbreaking 1983 pamphlet “How to Have Sex in An Epidemic: One Approach”), Berkowitz fought, largely without fanfare, to spread the word that a number of lifestyle factors (particularly, drug use and condom-free promiscuity) were responsible for the rapid-fire spread of AIDS through urban gay male communities. At his most active as an activist, Berkowitz was widely criticized (those who didn’t essentially accuse him of being a buzzkill tried to use his night job as an S&M hustler as evidence of his lack of credibility...
- 6/8/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
Daryl Wein's Breaking Upwards is one of my most personally anticipated films of SXSW 2009. Wein's follow-up to last year's SXSW doc premiere Sex Positive, Breaking is a narrative feature starring Wein and his real-life girlfriend Zoe Lister-Jones as themselves alongside a slightly-starrier supporting cast including Olivia Thirlby. Answering The 5 Questions We Ask Everyone, Wein talks about his film and stuff, but more importantly, he makes our second SXSW-related blow job joke of the day. Tell us about your movie. Who did you work with, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, "It's like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!" pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out. Breaking Upwards follows a young, real-life New York couple who strategize their own break-up, in a fictional narrative ...
- 3/6/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
Cinekink, the festival that can lay claim to being truly alternative kicks, off tonight with an 8pm gala and fundraiser at the Kush Lounge, 191 Chrystie Street. Screening will be three shorts -- Petra Joy's Artcore, Chuck Renslow's The Blue Rose, and Eva Midgley's Erotic Moments. Tomorrow the fest moves over to the Anthology Film Archives with screenings of Daryl Wein's doc Sex Positive and Robert Pratten's erotic horror film MindFLESH. Other highlights include Barbara Bell and Anna Lorentzon's Slamdance-premiering doc Graphic Sexual Horror, which looks at how the U.S. Patriot Act was used to shutter the extreme bondage website Insex, and Un Piede di Roman Polanski, a short directed by Filmmaker contributor Lauren Wissot and Roxanne...
- 2/24/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
New York -- "Sex Positive," the true story of former S&M hustler turned AIDS activism pioneer, has been picked up by Here Films.
After premiering at the SXSW Film Festival, Daryl Wein's feature went on to win best documentary feature at La Outfest this year. Here nabbed domestic rights and will distribute the film theatrically through sister outfit Regent Releasing in March.
The film profiles Richard Berkowitz, one of the first people to promote safe sex practices shortly after the discovery of AIDS. Wein and David Oliver Cohen produced the Ro*Co Films project.
" 'Sex Positive' carries a vital message still today about an epidemic that's hitting American youth hard, as HIV rates have nearly doubled between 2001 and 2006," said Regent's Mark Reinhart, who announced the buy on World AIDS Day. He negotiated the deal with Ro*Co's Annie Roney.
After premiering at the SXSW Film Festival, Daryl Wein's feature went on to win best documentary feature at La Outfest this year. Here nabbed domestic rights and will distribute the film theatrically through sister outfit Regent Releasing in March.
The film profiles Richard Berkowitz, one of the first people to promote safe sex practices shortly after the discovery of AIDS. Wein and David Oliver Cohen produced the Ro*Co Films project.
" 'Sex Positive' carries a vital message still today about an epidemic that's hitting American youth hard, as HIV rates have nearly doubled between 2001 and 2006," said Regent's Mark Reinhart, who announced the buy on World AIDS Day. He negotiated the deal with Ro*Co's Annie Roney.
- 12/1/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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