| Reviews of That Man: Peter Berlin |
One of the enduring icons of gay male eroticism, the phenomenon known as Peter Berlin is explored, explained, ogled and interviewed in the SUPERB DOCUMENTARY "That Man: Peter Berlin." The director, Jim Tushinski, couldn't have asked for a more colorful or brazenly documented subject, nor one who proves more UNEXPECTEDLY ENDEARING. Nathan Lee The New York Times In Jim Tushinski's CAPTIVATING doc, '70s gay-porn legend Peter Berlin, sporting a flaxen Dutch Boy 'do and the tightest trousers, is classified by one admirer as "a full-body genital." ... GENEROUS AND COMPASSIONATE, "That Man" ties up Berlin's life in one nice package. Melissa Anderson Time Out New York Jim Tushinski's well-wrought documentary on '60s-'70s porn star/personality Peter Berlin demonstrates, if nothing else, the lives that are are lived on the different sides of the sexual divide ... Tushinski's task, performed deftly, is to give Berlin his due as a character, image and emblem of uncloseted homosexuality and to establish his identity at the same time - something that documentarians enamored of their subjects often forget to do. John Anderson New York Newsday Jim Tushinski's MASTERFUL "That Man: Peter Berlin" is a fascinating look at gay porn icon Peter Berlin, a blond god of the seventies whose crotch became an international cause worshiped by the likes of Andy Warhol. This is how Berlin manufactured his persona and then eventually receded into an apartment in San Francisco decades later – [a] rousing, arousing work Brandon Judell
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