https://vo.rs/tags/henry-paris/Latest from the Henry Paris desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/radley-metzger-the-auteur-of-elegant-eros/<p>If Russ Meyer was the erotic film as drive-in cartoon, Radley Metzger was the same decade&rsquo;s answer in a dinner jacket. Where Meyer cut like a newsreel gunner and set his fever dreams in the dust of small-town America, Metzger built glossy widescreen comedies of manners in Italian villas, adapted French and Russian literature, filled his frames with mirrors and modern art, and treated desire as a subject for wit and sophistication. He is the great argument that the erotic film could aspire to the condition of the art house, and for a brief window in the late 1960s and early 1970s he made films that genuinely belonged there. That most people have never heard his name is one of the quieter injustices in film history.</p>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000