It appears that Cult Epics are set to enter the market with Mr.Metzger’s Score (1974) on October 26:
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Having explored heterosexual obsessions in the critically acclaimed Camille 2000 and The Lickerish Quartet and The Image, erotic cult director Radley Metzger goes all the way in the Score, a tale of a happily married couple (Claire Wilbur, Gerald Grant) who make a bet that they can seduce a couple of naive newlyweds (Lynn Lowry "I Drink Your Blood", Cal Culver) during a weekend get-together at their Riviera Villa.
An erotic classic, populated with strikingly beautiful people who are into free love - "dressing up" and the fine art of seduction.
Extras:
• On the set of The Score - A 25 minute featurette with Claire Wilbur, Lynn Lowry, Cal Culver and Radley Metzger
• Keeping Score with Lynn Lowry - A 20 minute new interview
• Audio commentary with Michael Bowen and Radley Metzger
• Trailers
Austin Chronicle:
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Radley Metzger, film's softcore artiste of the late Sixties and early Seventies (The Lickerish Quartet, Therese and Isabel), may be the filmmaker whose career seemed most unlikely for resuscitation. But Score, his bisexual romp from 1972, may prove these presumptions faulty. Drenched in retro-vogue, this Seventies time capsule captures everything from the period's very Brady decor to the hedonistic drugs 'n' sex to the ever-ready poppers on the night table. Metzger's films were made and released in that brief indie window between the chaotic late-Sixties break-up of the studio system and the wide release in the early Seventies of explicitly hardcore sex films. Metzger's stuff always fell into the arty camp, with mirrored effects and an uncommon attention to storylines. His compositions and narrative tactics owed more than a little tribute to the best of the new European cinema. Metzger started off as a straight filmmaker who learned his craft in the military and while editing trailers for Janus Films, a big distributor of foreign films at the time. But the commercial failure of his more personal projects opened his eyes to the potential of the exploitation and softcore market, and he went on to distribute two classics, I Spit on Your Grave and I, A Woman before directing his own softcore titles. Score is one of the last of them. The story is like a comic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. A libertine married couple Jack (Grant) and Elvira (Wilbur) lures other swingers to their luxurious home located "in the village of leisure, in the land of play, deep within the erogenous zone." Jack and Elvira live for their sex games and one game in particular involves keeping "score" of which of them can consummate more same-sex seductions than the other. Their targets here are the clueless young marrieds, Betsy (Lowry) and Eddie (Culver). The game involves a trunk full of costumes (a sailor suit, cowboy duds, a sex-slave outfit, and a nun's habit), weed and the aforementioned poppers, and Polaroids. The dialogue is gently amusing and holds up surprisingly well, as does this storyline of same-sex seductions that climax in a cross-cutting frenzy of parallel bedroom scenes. By today's standards, what we actually see is relatively modest, though there's no mistaking what is getting sucked, penetrated, stroked, or gratified at any particular moment. The acting has more than a few rough edges, but it's not really the kind of distraction that gets in the way. At the time of its release, Score found it couldn't compete with "erections and cum shots" and quickly became a victim of its times. In retrospect, it's amazing to see how ahead of the times it was.
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Last edited by pro-bassoonist; 11-15-2010 at 06:43 AM.
This sounds cool. I hope it's the uncut X rated version. I actually did a composite edit for a friend years ago from 2 different sources. The difference is quite dramatic and full out porn in some spots. I wonder which version Radley Metzger himself prefers.
Lastly, I want to let you know of the upcoming titles Cult Epics is planning for release in 2010. I am really excited to announce this here as I am sure many of you will also be. Nico has announced the coming of Blu-ray titles for Cult Epics which will launch them into the HD era of home entertainment. Nico states:
"Of course with NEW MEDIA, we are upgrading in the NEXT YEARS to come, our titles if possible the available elments are, will be newly transferred and released in HD, starting with THE RADLEY METZGER FILMS, as well MONAMOUR by TINTO BRASS, we will embrace BLU RAY, and erotica will never look better. In Tinto's case ASS NEVER LOOKED BETTER!"
The scheduled release of titles are:
THE FERNANDO ARRABAL COLLECTION 2 feb
Fernando Arrabal's CAR CEMETERY feb
Walerian Borowczyk's BEHIND CONVENT WALLS march
THE NUNSPLOITATION CONVENT COLLECTION march
Tinto Brass' MONAMOUR april
Radley Metzger's CAMILLE 2000 (Director's Cut) may Radley Metzger's SCORE - Theatrical and Uncut Version (SD and BD)
According to some of the reviews on Amazon of the First Run DVDs, the last part of the movie is savagely cut, with jarring soundtrack breaks and jump cuts. Apparently, what was cut out was hardcore gay male sex footage. So if this is the Uncut version, I guess that would be reinstated, although the reviewers seem to claim that Metzger "disowned" this explicit version.
Unfortunately, the most widely-circulated print - which bears a 1976 copyright - is the softcore version. Metzger reportedly prefers this cut of the film, but the all-important sex scenes are seriously compromised by jarring edits and obvious gaps in the soundtrack. The film remains a worthwhile curio, but its erotic potency has been severely blunted by unnecessary censorship.
What's cut really isn't anything to write home about but it adds a few minutes to the run time. It's really only in the long sex scene towards the end. However the editing is better in the uncut because the music doesn't cut randomly. I had a friend who was obsessed with this movie and even went as far as to have an audio interview with the producer or writer I can't remember which. We put together our own special edition DVD with my composite cut and the interview. It was cool but I'd love to get an official uncut release. The run time on the uncut X is 92 minutes.
The slip states the film is the UNCENSORED VERSION the Blu case inside slip seems to contain the cover art for the regular Blu edition. However the Snit theft sticker on top of case states UNCENSORED.
I haven't had a chance to look at the image quality yet etc... and I've NEVER EVER seen this film so I won't really know how much more explicit this version really is. The Back Cover states Never Before Released Uncensored, Uncut Version (Includes 7 minutes of additional Adult scenes)
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Last edited by PowellPressburger; 10-19-2010 at 04:33 PM.
The slip states the film is the UNCENSORED VERSION the Blu case inside slip seems to contain the cover art for the regular Blu edition. However the Snit theft sticker on top of case states UNCENSORED.
I haven't had a chance to look at the image quality yet etc... and I've NEVER EVER seen this film so I won't really know how much more explicit this version really is. The Back Cover states Never Before Released Uncensored, Uncut Version (Includes 7 minutes of additional Adult scenes)
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Is this region free? I'm dying to get this but if it's locked it'll be like buying a Criterion Blu-Ray. I'm in Australia, and as far as I can tell this isn't banned, and I'm dying to see it.
I didn't see any region symbol on your images, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Plus I don't have thirty-odd dollars to throw down the drain if it doesn't work.
Is this region free? I'm dying to get this but if it's locked it'll be like buying a Criterion Blu-Ray. I'm in Australia, and as far as I can tell this isn't banned, and I'm dying to see it.
I didn't see any region symbol on your images, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Plus I don't have thirty-odd dollars to throw down the drain if it doesn't work.
The disc is indeed Region-Free. I've updated our listing:
I'm not sure about this one, better to just buy a porno title no?
If porn is what you want then I would say go for the real thing. SCORE doesn't come across as hardcore to me at all. The film is more interesting than i thought it would be, it comes across as campy to me and some of the performances are over the top.
I am halfway thru the commentary track and it is worthwhile.
so I'm assuming you ended up with the uncensored bd even though the artwork looks like what amazon showed for the censored.
is it possible that only the uncensored has the sleeve?
I'm really tempted to order this, but there are just so many titles I want right now.
sadly enough I'd have to say the more graphic it is the more willing I might be to get this.
Are the scenes that someone alluded to earlier--that he supposdly "disowned"--part of this version?
I watched this last night. Not sure I'll keep it, as the scene with the two guys is quite explicit in this version, and that's not my cup of tea. The girl on girl "action" is very tame in comparison - Claire Wilbur hated Lynn Lowry during filming, which probably didn't help. Lowry says in the interview that she had no idea while making it that it was an X-rated film. I did enjoy the campy performances and the cheesy one-liners, though. This movie is kind of like a '70s time capsule, from the fashion to the attitudes of the day.
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