"Voyeurism is Participation"
'SHORTBUS' explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, 'SHORTBUS' tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart. Written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell (who previously starred in and directed the film adaptation of his international stage hit, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"), "Shortbus" explores the lives of several characters living in present-day New York as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex. Male and female, straight and gay, the characters find one and other - and eventually find themselves - when they all converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a mad nexus of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality. Mitchell developed the film's story along with his ensemble cast, all of whom are making their feature film debuts, and who were selected after submitting videotaped interviews/auditions in response to a well-publicized open casting call posted on a website. Over a half million people visited the website and nearly 500 people sent in tapes before the final seven leading performers -characters were selected to workshop the storyline with Mitchell.
'Shortbus' was one of the sensations of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival where following it's sold out premier it received a ten minute standing ovation.
Film Information: 'Shortbus'
Web: Cast, Bios and Additional Details at IMDb
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Writer: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast, Crew & Credits: Full Cast, Crew & Credits
Genre: Drama | Romance
Awards: 6 wins & 5 nominations
Runtime: 101 min
Spoken Language: English
Film Clip: "Shortbus' created by Meerkat86
'My Baby Just Cares For Me' ~ Nina Simone-mp3
Film File Download: "Shortbus'
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Soundtrack: "Shortbus'
His follow-up to 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' may not be a music movie per se, but music is indee
d important to the aesthetic of John Cameron Mitchell's 'Shortbus'. While some soundtracks go out of the way to be diverse, this one prefers a uniform mood, and that mood is reflective, relatively lo-fi indie rock. This is exemplified by Scott Matthew's five new tracks. The first, "Upside Down," gives off a strong whiff of late-period Magnetic Fields (maybe it's the ukulele), and the remaining four stay within these parameters of predominantly acoustic, forlorn introspection. Other paragons of American indie creativity include Yo La Tengo (the previously unreleased "Wizard's Sleeve"), Azure Ray, Animal Collective, and guest Canadians the Hidden Cameras. Rocker and former MuchMusic VJ Sook-Yin Lee (who plays a sex therapist in the movie) sings one of the best tracks, the pared-down but catchy "Beautiful." Two songs by Sweden's the Ark mercifully inject a welcome dose of disco excitement, while jazz singer Anita O'Day sounds as fantastically smoky as ever on "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby." Look also for Justin Bond (a.k.a. Kiki of Kiki and Herb) as he delivers the elegiac coda with the melancholy "In the End." ~ Elisabeth VincentelliMp3 Files: "Shortbus'
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