I don’t pretend to understand Beat Pornographer Joe Gallant’s movies, the latest of which, Hell’s Kittens, arrived recently in preview form, but that is always a pleasant experience for me, and much better than the feeling of understanding something all too well.
Filmed during February’s eclipse while Jack Kerouac’s On the Road typewriter scrolls were on display in New York, Hell’s Kittens makes use of both those things, as the menacingly erotic 14-year-old’s nightmare that is Sarah Jessie lies with her throat punctured in the shadow of both some Hell’s Kitchen Port-a-Potties and the darkening moon, and as the movie becomes the first porn flick partially filmed in the New York Public Library.
I assumed every one of the performers in the movie, aside from Nick Manning, Darryl Hanah, and Trina Michaels, were shopkeeper/strippers/dominatrices in New York, simply because all the girls have debauched and dangerous looks from having so much sex in alleys.
“No, I flew most of them out from L.A.,” Gallant said. “and one even came from Illinois.”
As you know from movies like Avenue X and The Skin Trade, Gallant is often successful in getting some serious verbiage out of people not normally asked to provide it. In Hell’s Kittens Gallant standby Dino Bravo (since relocated to Studio City) waxes on about Priapic Disorder and Jessie says things that would make William Burroughs shoot an apple off his own head.
Gallant himself is moving west later this year. “I’ve got to get out there and take advantage of all the space,” he said. “I’ll always be a New Yorker, I just need to get rid of 80 percent of the people here.”
Among the highlights of Hell’s Kittens include Tatiana (who says to Bravo, “Get Your Fucking Cock Out!”), Nick Manning’s Pulitzer-worthy ad-libs (“Eat Your Shit Off It!”), and the gang’s canoe trip across the Stygian Hudson River, which I thought equated New Jersey with Hell, but which Gallant optimistically claimed signalled New Beginnings.
“What better place to start again than in the Garden State?” Gallant asked, convincing no one.
But, evocative of Gallant’s own trip this Fall, consider this:
So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it…
Hell’s Kittens will be released around Halloween.
Previously: Joe Gallant: “The Machinery Is Weird”; Joe Gallant channels Sir Mix-a-Lot
See also: Joe Gallant
Gram, who is the brunette actress in this film w/ the tattoo sleeve on the left arm? Cheers!
That, Sir or Madame, is Tatiana.
if you just do alittle research youll find out this film is full of pornstars not strippers and what not…mya nichole is a hot newcomer this year who i found out on thehottestgirlinporn.com right now….and funny enough i heard this chick is dating nick manning
thats the chick with the filthy bathroom scene..her stuff is slowly coming out now i saw her in some other stuff…my type of girl
Yes, anonymous, having done “just a little bit of research” I mention in the next paragraph that I bounced my assumption off the director of the movie.
I wonder if it’s an aspect of Internet culture influencing the conversations we have in person or the other way around that leads someone to rush to comment without reading/hearing the entire story.
In any case, yes, it is also understood that Mya Nichole and Nick Manning have been a pair and met during the filming of “Hell’s Kittens,” which leads me to believe that it’s very possible that you are either Nick Manning or Mya Nichole. If not, pardon the mistake.
Thanks steve for telling me about all this….So I figure I’d set everyone straight real quick since your basically callin me and my guy out! First off if you think nick manning would take time from his “oh so busy schedule” you dont know the guy at all…he didnt write that comment, come on… As for me well I didnt write it either …you see you called the female actresses in the movie dominatrixes and strippers and the “anonymous seemed a bit frustrated, said you were wrong and brought me up…fact is I AM a dominatrix and have been for a few years its how I got into porn, and I have no issue being refered to as one! so looks like he didnt do very much research either.
And also FYI nick and I arent dating…we’re engaged…we skipped the whole dating thing …so im pretty sure if i made some comment i wouldnt say things that are false!
If anyone is REALLY interested in knowing about me just find my myspace!
Excellent Mya! Nice t meet you and congratulations.