JAMES FRANCO BLOWS... LITERALLY!

James Franco screened his latest film, The Broken Tower.

Franco portrays angst-ridden poet Hart Crane.

Steve Pond writes:

[Crane's] life included demanding parents, suicide attempts, career troubles, a drinking problem, and a string of gay relationships interrupted by one heterosexual liaison, all of it apparently inspiring his demanding but rapturous poetry.

As Franco himself pointed out, "The Broken Tower" also contains two scenes apt to stir up a lot of discussion. One is a 10-minute sequence in which the action stops and we stay on Crane's face as he reads the entirety of his long, thorny poem "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen."

The second is an oral sex scene between Crane and another man that at one point gets so explicit as to all but guarantee an NC-17 rating. (Though the scene is dimly lit, it clearly shows Franco performing oral sex on what is reportedly a prosthetic penis.)

"My guess is that the two scenes people will talk about the most are the blow job scene and the 10-minute poetry reading," Franco said, to laughter from the packed house at the Regal Cinemas.