Pen Pals
Pen Pals is an early honey-humper by the great Shaun Costello, without doubt the most significant (and probably the most prolific) sinéaste of the entire New York School. Costello's films generally exhibit the hip, urban, jaundiced sensibility of Paul Morrissey's Warhol fare: willfully anti-artistic, they radiate an engaging cynicism that somehow reinvigorates them as cinema. Gerry Damiano may have been bigger, Joe Davian may have been kinkier, and Chuck Vincent may have pulled off better production values, but the films of Shaun Costello sum up the spirit of New York porn in a 60-minute nutshell.