The Lickerish Quartet [Blu-ray]

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Overview

Master of sophisticated sexploitation Radley Metzger directed this elegant and thoughtful erotic drama. A wealthy and jaded couple living in a palatial Italian villa (Erika Remberg and Frank Wolff) spend an evening watching pornographic films with their adult son (Paolo Turco). Looking for a change of scenery, the family visits a carnival where they see a stuntwoman performing tricks on a motorcycle. When she removes her helmet, they're surprised to discover that the stunt rider appears to be one of the "stars" of the film they watched earlier, except that her blonde hair has turned dark. They invite her back to the villa, only to find out that the images in the film seem to have changed, and the face of the woman onscreen is no longer recognizable. Eventually, the strange woman begins to interact sexually with the mother, father, and son as they walk a fine line between reality and illusion. As with most of his work, the American-born Metzger shot this film in Europe with cinematographer Hans Jura, whose rich color images add immeasurably to this film's impact.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/26/2011
UPC:	0881190009796
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	R
Source:	Cult Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:28:00
Sales rank:	26,878

Special Features

The making of The Lickerish Quartet a 11 minute behind-the-scenes featurette containing rare footage of Silvana Venturelli, Paolo Turco and Radley Metzger; Cool version Love scenes produced originally for territories where the original version was too hot (32 minutes); Giving voice to the Quartet location sound vs dubbed soundtrack (13 minutes); Audio commentary track by Radley Metzger and film historian Michael Bowen ; Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Paolo Turco	The Boy
Silvana Venturelli	Actor
Frank Wolff	The Man
Erika Remberg	The Woman
Stelvio Cipriani	Composer

Technical Credits

Michael de Forrest	Screenwriter
Peter Carsten	Producer
Radley Metzger	Producer

Scene Index

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction
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Chapter 1: A Profit- and Customer-Centered Maintenance Strategy

Chapter 2: Key Requirements for Profit- and Customer-Centered Maintenance

Chapter 3: Four Real Maintenance Challenges We All Face
Part 2: Determining Where You Are as a Profit- and Customer-Centered Maintenance Operation: The Scoreboard for Maintenance Excellence

Chapter 4: The Scoreboard for Maintenance Excellence

Chapter 5: Guidelines for Conducting a Scoreboard for Maintenance Excellence Assessment

Chapter 6: Strategy for Developing a Corporate-Wide Scoreboard

Chapter 7: Case Study: The Scoreboard Self-Assessment: Just Do It!
Part 3: Developing Your CMMS as a True Maintenance Business Management System

Chapter 8: Maximizing the Value of CMMS for Profit-Centered Maintenance

Chapter 9: CMMS Functional Requirements That Support the Business of Maintenance

Chapter 10: Case Study: Quantitative and Qualitative Factors for CMMS Selection

Chapter 11: Maximizing Your IT Investment with the CMMS Benchmarking System

Chapter 12: Case Study: Effective CMMS Plus Best Practices: A Powerful Combination for Profit at Argentina's Largest Steel Maker
Part 4: The Profit- and Customer-Centered Maintenance Operation

Chapter 13: Improving Craft Productivity: An Essential Strategy for Profit and Customer Service

Chapter 14: Introducing OCE as a New Buzzword: The Overall Craft Effectiveness (OCE) Factor

Chapter 15: The ACE Team Benchmarking Process: A New Benchmarking Tool

Chapter 16: Profit- and Customer-Centered Best Practices

Chapter 17: Maintenance Quality and Customer Service

Chapter 18: Case Study--Critical Asset Facilitation: A Lesson Learned at Boeing Commercial Airplane Group

Chapter 19: PRIDE in Ownership with Operator-Based Maintenance

Chapter 20: Case Study: Developing an Effective Preventive Maintenance Strategy

Chapter 21: Today's Predictive Maintenance Technology: Key to Continuous Reliability Improvement

Chapter 22: Auto Identification Strategies to Support Maintenance Storeroom Excellence

Chapter 23: Case Study: Planning for Maintenance Excellence in Action at Lucent Technologies
Part 5: Validating Best Practice Results with the Maintenance Excellence Index

Chapter 24: Determine and Quantify Benefits and Gained Value

Chapter 25: Developing Your Maintenance Index to Validate Results

Chapter 26: Nontraditional Return on Investment for Improving Your Maintenance Return on Investment
Part 6: The Journey Toward Maintenance Excellence

Chapter 27: Developing and Implementing a Profit-Centered Action Plan

Chapter 28: Achieving PRIDE in Maintenance

Chapter 29: The Journey Toward Maintenance Excellence: Where Will You Go Now?

APPENDIX A: THE SCOREBOARD FOR MAINTENANCE EXCELLENCE
APPENDIX B: THE CMMS BENCHMARKING SYSTEM
APPENDIX C: CMMS FUNCTIONALITY RATING CHECKLIST
APPENDIX D: CASE STUDY: WHAT DO YOUR CRAFTS THINK ABOUT CMMS?
APPENDIX E: MAINTENANCE EXCELLENCE GLOSSARY
APPENDIX F: MAINTENANCE EXCELLENCE STRATEGY TEAM CHARTER EXAMPLE
APPENDIX G: ACE TEAM BENCHMARKING TEAM CHARTER EXAMPLE
APPENDIX H: ACE TEAM FORMS
APPENDIX I: OEE AND MAINTENANCE 5S FORMS
APPENDIX J: CUSTOMER SERVICE POCKET PAL EXAMPLE
APPENDIX K: A 1999 VISION OF MAINTENANCE AT THE MILLENNIUM: REVISITED IN 2006
APPENDIX L: COMPARISON OF SCOREBOARDS
INDEX

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Editorial Reviews

In the late '60s and early '70s, even the most fly-by-night low-budget porn purveyor strived to convince folks of the "redeeming artistic and social merit" of their work, but Radley Metzger was one of the few adult filmmakers who not only appeared to truly believe in that notion, but actively strove to live up to his own self-imposed standards of quality. The Lickerish Quartet is often dizzyingly pretentious and threatens to sink into self-parody with startling frequency, but Metzger is so determined to pull it off, that, by hook or by crook, the film manages to work both because of and despite its ambitions. With the exception of Russ Meyer, Radley Metzger was practically the only adult filmmaker of his era who had a genuine visual style (beyond pointing the camera and hoping it was in focus), and the superb camerawork and ambitious production design makes it a pleasure to look at. And while The Lickerish Quartet's intellectual pretensions and film-within-a-film, what-is-real-and-what-is-illusion structure reach further than Metzger can grasp much of the time, there's a very real charm to the picture that's engaging and entertaining. If it isn't as smart as it thinks it is, it's much smarter than it needs to be, and in a genre where intelligence and craft were usually at year zero, Metzger's big ideas and ability to make at least some of them work put him miles ahead of his competition. While the film may seem tame by contemporary standards, the glossy surfaces, overly mannered European decadence, and intellectual pretenses are more compelling and sexier than the average softcore drivel you'll find these days on cable late at night. The Lickerish Quartet plays more like a partially successful pseudo-art film than a landmark in erotic cinema (as it was hailed upon release), but at a time when most adult films appear to be the work of lobotomy cases with camcorders, it's a thoroughly enjoyable reminder of a time when someone was actually trying to raise the creative standards of skin flicks -- not a bad idea then or now.

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