Authors — Steve Gallagher
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Continuing Education
When I boarded a plane for Buffalo, N.Y., in 1981 to attend grad school at SUNY/Buffalo, my parents were shocked. I had just graduated from Queens College/CUNY with an undergraduate degree in biology and was destined for medical school. What my parents didn’t know was that I had become fascinated with experimental film — in particular, the work of Paul Sharits, who taught at the university’s Center for Media Studies (CMS). I was offered a graduate teaching position at CMS and bought a plane ticket to Buffalo, where I intended to spend one or two years, at most. Eight years […]
by Steve Gallagher on Mar 8, 2018 -
“This is Softcore”: The History of Radley Metzger
Opening today, August 7, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center is This is Softcore: The Art Cinema Erotica of Radley Metzger, a survey of the director whose arty erotica more or less defined what in the ’70s was dubbed “porno chic.” On the occasion of this retrospective we are reposting, from our archives, this wide-ranging 1997 interview conducted by Steve Gallagher. Among the topics: Metzger’s days creating edited versions of European arthouse masterworks; the origins of his glamorous soft-core aesthetic; distribution in the ’60s and ’70s’ his hardcore work, including The Opening of Misty Beethoven, done under the name […]
by Steve Gallagher on Aug 7, 2014
