If you have a short attention span (which I know I do), you'll remember that around a day ago I reviewed the James Westby film Film Geek. While it had some flaws here and there, I loved it, especially the lead performance of Melik Malkasian, so when I found out his second film, The Auteur, was also available on Netflix, I jumped right on board. While I still like Film Geek a lot more (many of those reasons pertaining to my own geekdom of the entertainment business), The Auteur is still a clever comedy, and it left me with one big question: how is Melik Malkasian not more famous?
To many people, pornography films are just a bunch of raunchy scenes that are thinly pieced together by a plot that took around five minutes to come up with. Not for Arturo Domingo (Malkasian, who seems to be Westby's go-to guy). This Italian filmmaker does not make just any kind of pornography; he is an artist, the 
Martin Scorsese of his genre. With films like Five Easy Nieces and Requiem for a Wet Dream, he became a superstar in the industry, earning the critical acclaim that most pornography directors never get. Unfortunately this all comes crashing down on the set of his most ambitious film (it's based on the title Full Metal Jacket, but I doubt I can actually say the real title here), when his alcoholism and rampant jealousy not only cost him his wife Fiona (Katherine Flynn), but his career as well.
Cut to eight years later, and Domingo (a few pounds heavier) has come to the town of Portland, Oregon (another Westby staple) to be honored for his body of work and to show his director's cut of FMJO (hopefully I can just use the initials). While in town, he encounters his former star and muse Frank E. Normo (John Breen) who has gone on to become a successful TV star with his travelogue/porno reality show, a hippie commune, a man in need of winning his wife back in bed, but what he really wants to find Fiona and finally win her heart back.
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