“Movie executives and first-time directors trudging through the snow this year at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah will find tales of pornography and sex addiction awaiting them, in a trend to show more skin at Robert Redford’s annual film showcase,” Piya Sinha-Roy reports for Reuters. “Showing in theaters alongside the Steve Jobs biopic “jOBS,” festival goers can catch a movie about porn star Linda Lovelace, played by Amanda Seyfried in ‘Lovelace,’ and British soft porn publishing magnate Paul Raymond, played by Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom’s ‘The Look of Love.'”
“One of the hotly anticipated premieres is comedy ‘Don Jon’s Addiction,’ actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut about a porn addict who tries to change his ways. It opens on Friday,” Sinha-Roy reports. “Gordon-Levitt, who plays the title role leads a star-studded cast including Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore, who play two women who help the porn addict become less selfish.”
“In its 35th year, the annual Sundance Film Festival, held in the snowy streets of Park City, Utah, has become a launch pad for low-budget films and unknown stars in films that need investors,” Sinha-Roy reports. “Co-founded in 1978 by actor-director Redford, this year’s 119 films were culled from 12,000 submissions. The ten-day festival, starting on January 17, showcases the films in competitions and low-key premieres that serve as an antidote to Hollywood’s glittering awards season.”
Sinha-Roy reports, “Even in death, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the festival’s biggest star. The biography ‘jOBS,’ starring Ashton Kutcher as the entrepreneur, claimed the coveted spot closing the festival. It was selected in part because festival organizers wanted to take advantage of the late computer executive’s enduring popularity, said Sundance director John Cooper. It didn’t hurt that the film is already selling well with buyers, he added… The documentary roster will also feature R.J. Cutler’s film ‘The World According to Dick Cheney,’ which profiles the former U.S. vice president, and Alex Gibney’s ‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks,’ about the new era of information transparency.”
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I await the comments about porn and Steve in the same article. Bring it on!
Way to go, Redford. Guns are bad but porn is okay????
Yes. Guns ARE bad. Porn IS OK.
Ahh, Gaelic….figures.
Ahh, Phalic….figures.
Corrected that for you…
There is nothing that is harmful or immoral (remember that this is not theocraсy but secular state we are living in) in legitimate porn. On the contrary, porn is healthy thin, according to researches.
Guns are questionable, yet.
Never saw a gun, by itself, be harmful. However, the nut holding the gun… questionable!
I’ve never known a single instance where porn killed somebody. Guns, other hand….
Porn never killed anybody, sheesh dude what kind of rock did you grow up under. You’ve never heard of snuff movies probably, no doubt you’ve never ever seen one…hey, maybe you’d like to be in one…yeah yeah that’s the ticket.
Check out Hostel, and Hostel 2, especially Hostel 2, near the end of the movie they actually do something very special to your testicular friends.
Porn, just like anything else has the potential to kill.
Internet porn addiction is becoming a major reason why couple s are filing for divorce. Google it if you don’t believe me.
Whoa, BLN said he never knew of any instance where porn killed somebody, he probably knows about it resurrecting the dead, uh the married. Well if he doesn’t he knows about it now.
Porn cannot kill someone? Possibly your making a semantic argument, fair enough.
Hate to say it, but Google ‘porn deaths.’
Guns, (inanimate objects) other hand …
Movie trailers of the “jOBS” movie?
FOLKS, if I could:
My friend Jason Da Silva chronicled his journey of discovering and living with MS. His documentary was accepted by Sundance. Please check it out, if you have a chance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/opinion/the-long-wait.html?hp&_r=1&
Getting sex and porn in a headline is as good as putting Apple in a headline.
Talk about triple gold!
I don’t get it. A movie about Steve Jobs is porn.
The stupidity of the average American will never stop to amaze . Oh no, my child just saw porn! Well, I hope that shooting his automatic riffle in the back yard will set him straight…..
Following the logic of the NRA, one should argue that the only response to bad porn is good porn……more porn to solve the porn problem!!!