No Plans for Next Weekend? How About XXX Nights at Cinefamily?

LOS ANGELES—The owners of Cinefamily, who several years ago took over what used to be a Hollywood insider "guilty pleasure" when it was still called the Silent Movie Theater on North Fairfax Avenue, have certainly come a long way in terms of the fare they're willing to offer to the public—and their latest and most interesting attention-getter has got to be the three-night program coming next weekend, part of which will feature the classic XXX films Café Flesh and Nightdreams. Café Flesh was directed by "Rinse Dream," better known to the mainstream world as Stephen Sayadian after he crossed over and became production designer for the first season of the long-running detective show Silk Stalkings. Among Sayadian's other popular XXX works were Volumes 2 and 3 of Nightdreams, two volumes of Party Doll A Go-Go! and two volumes of Untamed Cowgirls of the Wild West—all of which developed a cult following for their psychedelic/New Age stories and production design. Café Flesh (1982), which AVN reviewer I.L. Slifkin described as "[h]aunting, frightening and sexually unsettling," takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where nearly the entire population of the planet is unable to have sex, and who depend on the 1 percent who can still get it up (including early stars Pia Snow and Marie Sharp) to entertain them with live sex shows at (where else?) Café Flesh. In Nightdreams (1981), directed by F.X. Pope, Dorothy LeMay, one of that era's most popular stars, is the subject of an experiment conducted by scientists Jennifer West and Andy Nichols to create and monitor Dorothy's erotic dreams—and boy, does she have a bunch of them! Also in the cast were top performers Loni Sanders, Danielle Martin (better known simply as "Danielle"), Kevin James and Ken Starbuck—and the soundtrack was created and performed by top '80s band Wall of Voodoo! Perhaps best of all, those attending the showing of Café Flesh on July 26 will have the opportunity to hear director Sayadian and his co-writer Jerry Stahl discuss the film, their other work, and take audience questions. Stephen Sayadian