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For four years Odette Springer, an elegant classically trained musician and opera singer, was musical supervisor at Roger Corman's Concorde/New Horizons Pictures--until she discovered she was becoming turned on by the constant flow of images of sex and violence that confronted her daily in her work.
Leaving Corman, she decided to make a documentary, with Johanna Demetrakas as co-writer/director, that would take us into the world of B-movie filmmaking, dedicated to cranking out erotic thrillers and sexy horror-gore flicks; it would also be a process of self-discovery.
The result is the smart and insightful "Some Nudity Required," which is alternately amusing and rightly disturbing but always engrossing. Springer's two-fold strategy, examining herself as well as a specific filmmaking scene using telling clips, pays off, allowing her to be thoughtful and questioning rather than merely judgmental. Springer avoids familiar feminist...
