The Hedwig and the Angry Inch director looks back on his explicit classic Shortbus as it returns to cinemas in a new 4K restoration It's been over 15 years since Shortbus, John Cameron Mitchell's ...

“Let’s face it: monogamy’s for straight people,” says Jamie (PJ DeBoy) in one early moment in John Cameron Michell’s “Shortbus.” The film was restored and rereleased by Oscilloscope Laboratories and ...

It's a miracle it got made in the first place. The filmmaker waxes poetic about shooting real sex for his newly restored second feature. As a teenager encountering “Shortbus” for the first time, I ...

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Shortbus: Drama. Starring Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson and Lindsay Beamish. Directed by John Cameron Mitchell. (Not rated. 102 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, ...

That’s just the beginning; what’s most remarkable is that once it’s over, it’s quite unlikely that the first thing you’ll recall about the film is the sex. Mitchell has perhaps completely achieved ...

When Paul Dawson blew himself in the sexually overt film "Shortbus," keeping an erection wasn't the hard part. Coming multiple times wasn't, either. "It was hard getting in the mind frame that you're ...

What do you do when regulators will not allow you to import a provocative movie into the country? Hit the festival circuit, of course. At least that is South Korean distributor Sponge's solution to ...