very very very excited that Le Beau Mec has been “restored” and it’s screening in NYC this Friday (one night only – grrrrr!!), and apparently has in other cities. So, I figured I would finally digitize my old VHS before it’s too late….. but of course, that means finding it in the porn basement. A couple years back i actually organized 90% of my tapes, into boxes with codes and an excel spreadsheet… maybe it would be accurate a few years later after I’d been pulling out tapes for box cover scans or clips???? maybe? The spreadsheet tells me I have 2 copies! That’s good… and the first box it was supposed to be in…. success! Then, upstairs to the PC, VCR, and converting program, and…. it’s not rewinding properly.. and the program can’t record, and and, UGH! Long story short, I gave up, turned everything off, powered down, rebooted and came back the next day to see…. recording program IS working… VCR was able to rewind all the way to the beginning…. and then… well, how’s the first 24 minutes of the movie, and very very unlikely to get this tape to give me more? UGH! and searching for the other copy? not where it was supposed to be, not in the odds and ends boxes of pulled tapes, and, well, no where – so far. For now… there are some poorly recorded parts, and then 23ish minutes in, abrupt end – but a peak, right?
- opening sequence with sexy cabaret dance; apparently this, and a later sequence, was choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev (director Wallace Potts’ lover at the time)
- he reminisces about having sex in the woods with a fellow soldier while in the French Army
- getting serviced in a trashy hotel by a trick, smoking, bored, (VERY BORED! – i LOVE IT!) yet somehow hard and hot as the hairy guy works on him and himself, showing off his uncut crotch well
- did I mention the soundtrack – love all of it, the voiceover, the music – probably due to the many many hours wandering around the porn theatre with these sounds in the background – this soundtrack being the soundtrack to my own “adventures”
“Karl Forest is the subject of this pseudo-documentary autobiography of a hustler-turned cabaret dancer — from tender love-making in a forest to playful quick-scene fun with a mobster, a cop, and a soldier. The voice-over, in both French and English, explains his thoughts on life as a gay man in Paris. If I had a nickel for every cigarette he smokes during the film… Fave scene is him getting (oral) from an older man. Sitting in a chair, smoking and slightly bored, he gets more turned when he spots money in his trick’s pocket. The trick is not handsome, but his own is more than adequate, and his pleasure in crotch-servicing is more than enough to get you excited. The realness when you notice his toupee is beginning to slip off because of his forceful plunges into Forest’s crotch makes it that much more exciting.” – NIGHTCHARM’s top ten queer porn videos. —– heehee! that was a list they asked for from me back in 2004 – and I got a lot of crap for not including ANYTHING after 1988!
ONE NIGHT ONLY
LE BEAU MEC
Friday 28, April – 7:30 PM
YES! YES! New York premiere of the stunning new restoration of LE BEAU MEC (1979)
