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Ask Any Buddy

Directed by Elizabeth Purchell2020USA77 mins

A Marilyn Monroe impersonator getting a blowjob. A busy gloryhole with "Edith Head gives wardrobe" scrawled above it. A jockstrap contest at the End Up. Ask Any Buddy offers a thrilling historical document of queer life during the liberation era, told through fragments from over 120 hardcore porn films from the '60s, '70s, and '80s.

A companion to the popular Instagram account and podcast, Ask Any Buddy does not contextualize these clips with narration or interviews. Instead, film historian and director Elizabeth Purchell deftly weaves them together to offer a celebration of a bygone era, reveling in both the fantasies and realities of post-Stonewall porn. Though we see familiar faces like Al Parker, Casey Donovan, and Peter Berlin and work from the gay porn auteurs Wakefield Poole, Arthur J. Bressan, Jacques Scandelari, Fred Halsted, and Tom DeSimone, much of what is showcased is footage digitized from Purchell's own collection. There are rare clips from rallies, the West Side piers, parades, bathhouses, and adult theaters, resulting in a brilliant and erotic kaleidoscope of sex and freedom.

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Elizabeth Purchell
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This film contains sexually explicit material.

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Director
Elizabeth Purchell
Year
2020
Country
USA
Running Time
77 mins
Language
English
Section
Erotic Evenings, Narrative Features
Program Note Writer
Elliott Breeden
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