Tucson Adult Entertainment: Going back underground to find a gem
Strangely encouraged to press on, I popped in the next one, a grimy exploitation flick with a title exactly like “Run, Lola, Run!” except for the Lola part. It screens at 9:30 tonight at the Screening Room.
But unlike that breathless German treasure from 1998, this “Run” walks the line between dull and duller. It’s an unintelligible hodgepodge of images that never threatens to mean anything.
After enduring these two examples of underground cinema so that you don’t have to, the multiplex has never looked so inviting. Surely “The Men Who Stare at Goats” would be more worthwhile than what was up next at my house: A documentary about the men and women who star in porn.
But “9 to 5 Days in Porn” turns out to be a first-rate documentary that’s full of absurd human drama. Expertly constructed to reveal virtually every aspect of the unsavory adult entertainment industry, it’s surprisingly insightful and hard-edged (and explicit).