"Shortbus" set for March 13 DVD release...

First "Casino Royale" and now this! John Cameron Mitchell's VERY sexuallyt explicit film "Shortbus" will be released on DVD March 13. The film revolves around a salon of the Gertrude Stein model from the early 1900s, where artists, writers, musicians, and intellectuals converged to share their works and discuss new ideas in art and politics. Mitchell's version attracts an updated assortment of regulars culled from New York's burlesque and gay performing arts communities—or, as he says, the kinds of people who belonged on the "short bus" for gifted and challenged children in elementary school.
Though the cast includes actors with varying backgrounds and sexual orientations, the thing connecting them is their humorous and frustrating explorations of sexual relationships. One character, a sex therapist (Sook-Yin Lee, pictured at right), has never herself experienced an orgasm. A gay couple is thinking about opening up their relationship to include other lovers.
Be prepared: in the sex scenes, the actors are REALLY having sex with each other. The film had an NC-17 rating when it played in theaters last fall.
Here are some of the DVD extras: Deleted scenes (They must be some doozies!) with commentary from Mitchell and the cast, movie commentary, theatrical trailer, and the featurette: "How to Shoot Sex: A Docu-Primer."