Continuing with a tradition that started last fall, Quentin Tarantino’s Los Angeles repertory theater, the New Beverly, will once again screen a XXX classic: the 1980 French queer landmark “Equation to an Unknown,” in 35 mm.
Lifehacker has recommended 17 top titles from the “Golden Age of Porn,” many of which have recently been remastered and made available for online streaming for the first time.
Quentin Tarantino’s Los Angeles repertory theater, the New Beverly, will re-introduce XXX programming this month via a midnight screening of the classic 1979 adult horror comedy “Dracula Sucks.”
The decline of physical formats like DVDs and Blu-ray among mainstream entertainment consumers has paradoxically resulted in an unexpected feast of availability for cult, fringe and obscure movies, both via streaming and VOD services and specialty Blu-ray for collectors — a phenomenon that also includes the classics from the Golden Age of pornography (and erotica) in the 1970s and '80s.
They may go by different names —“vintage,” “classic” “Golden Age,” or even “obscure” — but porn of yesteryear is not only evergreen but it’s finding a new generation of fans that in some experts’ minds are tired of today’s extreme and reality adult films and are seeking older “comfort” types of movies with recognizable stars and even story lines.
The old saw “what’s old is new again” is now a seemingly apt description of what's happening in porn, so much so it's spawned a new streaming service set to launch in 2014.
Distribution house The French Connection is touting the premiere of a paysite focusing on vintage all-male erotica from the 1970s as well as classic titles from the '80s and '90s.
