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Some Nudity Required

  • 19981998
  • 1h 22m
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5.4/10
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Maria Ford in Some Nudity Required (1998)
Documentary
A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
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    • Johanna Demetrakas
    • Odette Springer
    • Johanna Demetrakas
    • Odette Springer
    • Ruth Wald
  • Stars
    • Edward Albert
    • Samuel Z. Arkoff
    • Lisa Boyle
    • Johanna Demetrakas
    • Odette Springer
    • Johanna Demetrakas
    • Odette Springer
    • Ruth Wald
  • Stars
    • Edward Albert
    • Samuel Z. Arkoff
    • Lisa Boyle
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    • 14User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Edward Albert
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    Samuel Z. Arkoff
    Samuel Z. Arkoff
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    Lisa Boyle
    Lisa Boyle
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    Roger Corman
    Roger Corman
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    Catherine Cyran
    Catherine Cyran
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    Frances Doel
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    Johnnie Fiori
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    Maria Ford
    Maria Ford
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    Jan Glaser
    Jan Glaser
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    Dan Golden
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    Dan Katzman
    Dan Katzman
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    Gwen Lavery
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    Charles Philip Moore
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    • (as Chuck Moore)
    Melissa Moore
    Melissa Moore
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    • (as Melissa Ann Moore)
    Fred Olen Ray
    Fred Olen Ray
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    Kevin Reidy
    • Self
    Andy Sidaris
    Andy Sidaris
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    Arlene Sidaris
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      • Odette Springer
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      In interviews, Odette Springer said that while working on the documentary, she realized the true nature of the business' alarming fascination. It was not until she was well into production that she realized her excursion into this "over-the-top world that Fellini couldn't have made up" was taking a personal toll. Compiling the clips, she found herself inexplicably obsessed with and aroused by the very images she considered violent and degrading. "First, I was irate at some of this stuff," she said. "I watched these movies and I hated them. But my body was telling me something different. I didn't realize I had such a shadow side to my own sexuality. I found myself getting turned on, and it horrified me." The clips also awakened long-suppressed memories of being sexually molested as a child, the pleasure of being touched coupled with the fear of being controlled by adults. This connection is made clear in the movie by home movie footage of her as a young girl cavorting about naked. The irony was not lost on Springer that movies she considered damaging helped her to grow and "become stronger." "That's a very confusing thing," she said. "This is the last place I would have looked for healing, believe me."
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    Some Nudity Required is one of those documentaries that reveal as much as the person trying to create the documentary as it does the subject. What does it reveal about B movies? Odette Springer's focus is definitely negative about the industry, but it's the words of the B-movie mavens that do the most damage, revealing the rampant and violent mysogyny prevalent among makers of B movies. What does it reveal about Odette? A lot...and proves she has a lot that she has a lot that she wants to let out.

    The story of Maria Ford was also telling, and another great reason to see the movie.
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      • October 16, 1998 (United States)
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