Some Cambridge film watchers should have a fine time this week as the Orson Welles Theatre comes on with its first Pornographic Film Festival, featuring the work of David F. Friedman.
Ordinarily, the avid move-goer would have to go to Washington Street in Boston to catch films like Thar She Blows and The Lustful Turk, but Peter A. Jaszi, titles producer for the theatre, said yesterday that these movies belong in Cambridge too.
However, Jaszi said he plans to do more than make money from the movie festival. He has asked both Bread and Roses and Women's Lib to atten the movies and help create a discussion about the political and social significance of the films with the audience.
"We don't want to discriminate against the guy who just comes to enjoy this trash," Jaszi said, "but we do want some people to consider these films' political and human framework.
"In most films the level of dehumanization is very latent, but the blatancy of these films will allow people to examine more closely the attitudes in movies which dehumanize both the female and male sex," he said.
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