“Emmanuelle” Is Back Where She Belongs

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!