indieWIRE reminds us that tomorrow is the start of the 11th New York Underground Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives. It runs for a week, and as the NYUFF states on its website, “Festival runs Wednesday, March 10 to Tuesday, March 16. “Closing Night” is Sunday the 14th and the two final days are repeat screenings for your slack ass.” The schedule includes a variety of features and short programs, and tickets for all screenings are $8.50, making them a bargain for NYC theatregoers.
Of interest to all New Yorkers, I’m sure, is the docu Goldstein: The Trials of the Sultan of Smut which follows Al Goldstein — the host of TW Cable Channel 35’s mainstay Midnight Blue and publisher of local porn rag Screw Magazine — as he defends himself in a recent sexual harrassment lawsuit filed by an ex-secretary. Shocker to end all shocker: the film contains interviews with the always reclusive Ron Jeremy. Thank goodness … Ron’s been out of the limelight for too long and definitely needs more exposure.
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