Movies

March, 1972

"We want to take the erotic film out of the hands of the smut peddlers and give it some class." These were the brave beginning words of the First Annual New York Erotic Film Festival's codirector, Ken Gaul, a former Screw editor who teamed up with Roger Sichel, formerly of Grove Press, to present true-blue pornography in a cultural setting removed from the usual haunts of furtive little men carrying briefcases and raincoats. The first annual pornographic come-together encountered so ma...