Nothing makes us feel more like a big pervy loser than standing in line for a porn movie. On a Friday night. Alone. In the rain. Wearing a trench coat no less.

Viva--a campy stylized soft porn movie played at the Roxie Theatre for the San Francisco Independent Film Festival last week and our plus-one was running late. The theatre seemed freakishly well-lit and we craned our neck around and made a big production of looking for our lost friend (as if we were being observed by the upstanding citizens of San Francisco who were all wondering who the big perv was, sitting alone in the trench coat at a porn movie on a Friday night).

Much to our relief there were a few other people who seemed to be there alone. In general, it was a pretty regular looking crowd; dirty hipsters, a few gray beards, some motherly looking types, art nerds--a typical cross-section of San Franciscans who could disguise their true desire to see boobies, boobies, boobies under the respectable auspices of a film festival.

After the jump -- Yowza! And the serious-minded crowd.

SFist Mihi, contributing.

Anna Biller, the star and director of Viva, devoted four years to create the story of a bored housewife turned sexual explorer in 1972 Los Angeles. One of the stars of the movie, Bridget Brno, who plays horny blond neighbor Sheila, called Viva "probably the work I'm most proud of." She was in attendance for a Q&A after the movie.

Judging from the questions which referred to the works of Radley Metzger--master of 1960s and '70s Euro-erotica and Stephanie Rothman, director of 1970s exploitation films (which we learned by Googling), we realized maybe we were the only ones who came to see boobies, boobies, boobies and everyone else was really into the genre. Who knew? We were going to ask, "what's up with the crazy looking nipples on that redhead? Is anyone really expected to get their rocks off after watching that?" and "Is Anna Biller Italian like she says in the movie, cause she looks Asian?" But that seemed way too low-brow. Only in the Bay Area do people manage to come up with actual thoughtful questions about soft porn. Sheesh!

Viva plays again in Berkeley on February 13 and at the Roxie on February 18. Anna Biller the star and filmmaker is suppose to attend both screenings so maybe SFist readers can ask our questions for us.