Comments on: News: Porn Star Sasha Grey has Impeccable Taste in Film

By: lol

lol — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:37:57 +0000

How is she not pretentious?

By: Micah Ironfist

Micah Ironfist — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:52:57 +0000

fantastic article. I will bookmark it! Thanks

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By: Bankruptcy Blog

Bankruptcy Blog — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:37:52 +0000

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By: Ricky

Ricky — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:33:10 +0000

I am a big fan of Sasha and I am not quite sure why yet but something about her makes me think that she has a lot to offer the film world outside porn. Anyhow I hope we will be getting an interview with her at Fantasia in a few weeks.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:03:31 +0000

Correction: I believe Escape from New York would have been her choice.

I wonder how she would be viewed if she only listed that one film?

Good luck SG. Like you said your father tells you, I hope you do everything you say you’re going to do. Have integrity. Follow through.

GFE is an interesting production.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:57:17 +0000

I’ve read a number of her interviews. She says the same thing in almost all of them which provides some corroboration and serves to counter journalistic inaccuracies. If you had paid close attention you would understand that these films were recommended to her by her high school drama instructor and the director of GFE. She also states her tastes in music came mainly from a website she discovered in high school. Nothing negative about any of this; I’m glad she has gotten good tips, no matter who they came from. But it should be recognised that, based on what she has said, each of her favourite films are ones recommended to her, not ones she chose herself. Maybe some people are making this girl fit their fantasies instead of seeing her for who she is (i.e. paying close attention to her words).

By: Pastilan

Pastilan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:53:26 +0000

@ Lily, Why are some people so judgmental? So what if she’s a porn star? To look down on a porn star is a sign of hypocrisy and hypocrisy is a sign of dumbness. I see porn stars as artists, it’s their kind of art so don’t look down on them. Sasha Grey is a very good artist in her own right, so why question her taste in movies? Do you think that because she’s a porn star she’s dumb? I collect non-mainstream films but to tell you honestly, I only saw one of the five that she mentioned and it is Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence. Now i am looking for the other four and see if I like them too. It is true that even if you really like a film and knows that it’s great, you sometimes fail to put into words what the film looks like to you. Just like the film, The King, I really like it but I find it quite hard to explain to people why it is so good.

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:03:11 +0000

My favorite film of all time is No Surrender. Should I get involved in porn in hope of having better taste in film?

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:12:53 +0000

9 to 5: Days in Porn is not good at all. That film is exactly like Porn: full of tiltiating promise, but the mechanics of it leave us limp. For someone who spends his days around porn, I appreciated it for the fact that I actually got to know some of the stars whose blank faces look at me every day. I was also astounished by the fact that there were new stars who shone and burnt out during the making of the film that I had never heard of.

Apparently, Sasha is trying to be the Goddard of porn. Everyday, I see her rather adorable face look back at me in the shop, and my advice to to her is to be like Truffaut.

By: Márcio

Márcio — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:24:08 +0000

Come on Lily, It’s a 3 minute segment where she picks 5 of her favorite movies, what did you expect? She came across honest to me and appart from Stroszek wich I haven’t seen, all the other four are really good movies, so if she can convince one single person to see any of them is all good.

By: James

James — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:41:23 +0000

I bet if she wasn’t a porn star you would not doubt her choices. I think she is downright honest and she doesn’t need to state why she likes these films. She does not have to prove it to anyone. Some journalist simply asked what her favorite films were and she answered. What is wrong with that?

By: Lily

Lily — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:46:51 +0000

Really? I thought it was completely pretentious. Everything she said about the films was completely superficial and vacuous – acting like they’re her favorites when she can’t say anything about them that’s not cliche IS pretension. Anyone can carry around a copy of Thus Spake Zarathustra and namedrop Herzog.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:59:40 +0000

Herzog’s Stroszek is increfible. I actually just picked up the DVD for 5 dollars.
I could care less about Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl.

Godard’s Pierrot le fou is a masterpeice. Please take some time to listen to our podcast special on Jean Luc Godard. It was one of three films we reviewed.

Any list with Cassavetes is a good list but I could think of way better films from John Carpenter.

Good list anyhow.