When Malcolm McDowell first heard that a new cut of Caligula was being worked on, he simply rolled his eyes. “That’s what I did,” he says. “Because I never, ever wanted to talk about that damn film ...

In the 1970s, Bob Guccione — publisher of the porn magazine Penthouse — commissioned a script for a sexually explicit Roman saga from novelist Gore Vidal. He hired Tinto Brass — who’d just made the ...

With the belief that a masterpiece lurks within the mangled original 1980 release, Thomas Negovan has patched together a new version (with less skin) from the Penthouse archive. By Elisabeth ...

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