"Emmanuelle" Is Back Where She Belongs

Fleshbot — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:52:55 EDT

Unless you've managed to catch it on late night cable or on an out-of-print DVD copy, "Emmanuelle" is one of those classic films that more folks have heard about than actually seen—which is a darn shame if you ask us, since Just Jaecklin's 1974 study of an innocent young wife's erotic awakening is a cinematic landmark that belongs in the library of every discriminating ~~perv~~ sexual connoisseur.

So we're excited about the new Lionsgate special edition DVD release of "Emmanuelle", which goes on sale this week and which presents the film with all the careful attention to detail it deserves, complete with two new featurettes on its making and marketing and all of its gauzy tropical eroticism intact (as opposed to those couple of cruelly butchered foreign releases that have been floating around over the last several years.) It's a class act, and as far as we're concerned the film looks better than ever. (Which, considering the fact that we last saw it nearly twenty years ago on a Betamax copy we filched from our parents' bedroom, may not really be saying that much. Still, we think that Sylvia Kristel would be proud.)

· "Emmanuelle" DVD Gallery (Fleshbot Gallery)
· Order: "Emmanuelle" (1974) (Amazon)
· "Emmanuelle" (DVD info @ lionsgateshop.com)

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Previously: In Search Of Sylvia Kristel: "Emmanuelle" Lives!, Sleaze From The 70s: "Malabimba - The Malicious Whore", The Return Of "Vanessa", Papa's Retro Porn Movies, Porn Valley Dispatch: The Return of "Taboo", DVD Review: "The Vanessa Del Rio Collection", Welcome Back Seka!

In Search Of Sylvia Kristel: "Emmanuelle" Lives!

Fleshbot — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:22:37 EDT

Calling her "the world's most famous porn star" might be a stretch for a generation bought up on Jenna and Tera, but there was a time when you couldn't swing a Betamax tape without seeing Sylvia Kristel, who created the title role of the French softcore classic "Emmanuelle" in 1974 and starred in several of its sequels throughout the following decade (as well as in mainstream releases like the classic "Airport '79").

In a new interview this weekend to mark the publication of the English edition of her autobiography "Emmanuelle Uncovered", Kristel talks about her post-"Emmanuelle" life and career, which despite several "cocaine-fuelled, drunken years living with (actor) Ian McShane in Hollywood" and losing out on millions of dollars in movie profits turned out to be a relatively normal one after all, even if she seems pretty wistful about the role that made her a star: in another interview published last week in the Telegraph, she says "You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40 ... You save yourself a lot of trouble."

· "Interview: Sylvia Kristel, the world's most famous porn star" (arts.independent.co.uk; see also "Erotic review" @ telegraph.co.uk)
· Sylvia Kristel (Wikipedia)
· "Emmanuelle" (Opening and Closing Theme) and Sylvia Kristel (in "Emmanuelle 2" (YouTube)
· Order: "Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir" (amazon.co.uk)

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Previously: Papa's Retro Porn Movies, Porn Valley Dispatch: The Return of "Taboo", DVD Review: "The Vanessa Del Rio Collection", Welcome Back Seka!, Vintage Sexploitation Movie Posters, Turkish Erotic Movie Posters, Rare Erotica Blog, 70s Spanish Film Posters, 70s Hardcore, Swingin' Seventies Porn

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"Emmanuelle" Is Back Where She Belongs

In Search Of Sylvia Kristel: "Emmanuelle" Lives!