This unfocused, low-tech portrait of pioneering pornographer Al Goldstein, founder of the defiantly raunchy
Screw magazine, doesn't tell you anything you couldn't learn by watching a couple of installments of his cable show,
Midnight Blue. Goldstein -- a
veteran self-aggrandizer with a chip on his shoulder the size of his native Brooklyn -- occupies center stage, but director Alexander Crawford casts a wider net and hauls in
all the bottom-feeders. He questions a pathetic assortment of sex-industry patrons (no porn-hater could have chosen
them better), gives too much screen time to the rantings of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa -- who app...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins