Secrets of Sex
Secrets of Sex 1969, released 1970 aka Bizarre, is a British film, directed by Antony Balch, an experimental filmmaker and frequent collaborator with William S. Burroughs. The film is narrated by an Egyptian mummy voiced by Valentine Dyall.
Commenting on the film in an unpublished 1975 interview, Balch claimed this is a very uneven film, but three episodes and a single shot, are good. I liked the ones with the photographer, Elliot Stein, and the Lady in the Greenhouse. The episode of the monster baby is a bore, but the single shot of it, at the end is brilliant.The film was substantially cut for the British cinema release in 1970, with censor John Trevelyan removing over nine minutes from the film, while reportedly muttering nasty stuff. Heavily cut was the Spanish horseFemale photographer sequence, together with assorted orgy and lovemaking scenes, while shots of men in bed together in the Bedroom Beauties of 1929 sequence were removed entirely. Writing in the Monthly Film Bulletin March 1970 Jan Dawson remarked of the cuts paradoxically, the bowdlerized version of the film moves closer to pornography than the version from which its audience is being protected. its sad that censorship should function against its own long term purpose and reenforce the maninthemacs sexual furtiveness by denying him the chance to view sex irreverently. The film was briefly released uncut in America under the name Bizarre by New Line Cinema, before being withdrawn and rereleased in 1972 as Tales of the Bizarre, a drastically reedited version that deleted aroundminutes from the film. The 1980 UK video release on the Iver Film Services label is uncut, as is the 2005 American DVD and the 2009 British DVD. ........
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