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Ah Greta too...
Last watch was John Byrum's Inserts, with a wonderful Jessica Harper and a Richard Dreyfuss who wanted to forget the shooting of Jaws that had just preceded.
No ellipse at all, wonderful acting.
Great flick.
I wanted to watch it after a Youtube clip from a Phantom of the Paradise reunion where Harper reflected on how three of her first films bombed (the third being Suspiria) to become kinda cultish (kinda applying to Inserts since Byrum never went that much farther after that).
The film was supposed to be a porn movie. A guy had told Byrum "write me down a porn flick and you'll shoot it". He started writing. But it didn't pan out as planned and there was no porn in it. Eventually someone produced it as it was quite cheap - 5 actors, no more, a single setting and that was it, the story being the shooting of a short porn film by a former promising director from the 1920s.
Said producers got to help a few other directors like Bill Forsyth whose Local Hero is a joy.
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