Some Nudity Required
NR, 82 min.
Directed by Odette Springer, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Not reviewed at press time. Director Odette Springer is the former music supervisor for Roger Corman’s Concorde/New Horizons Pictures. She made this documentary to explore how she went “from Beethoven to B movies.” Questioning her own involvement in these “erotic/slasher/action” films, Springer (with co-director Johanna Demetrakas) interviews stars, directors, Corman, and others to find out why they all do what they do. She talks with top stars Maria Ford and Julie Strain about their ambivalent feelings for the industry’s nipple quotient and along the way uncovers some hidden childhood memories of her own.

This article appears in January 24 • 2003.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.