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“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.” —Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Though Catherine Deneuve was an established force in European cinema by Luis ...

The world has many, many vaginas and, compared to their abundance, we don’t spend enough time discussing them. They’re the genitalia underdog. People drone on and on about the waggling and intrusive penis, but the vagina – tucked away, almost ...

If there is a redheaded stepchild of the creative arts, the music video format is it. Literature, music, theater, even the L’Enfant terrible that is cinema, all have their “respectable” champions and preservationists. Music video, on the other hand, has ...

Considering the life and work of West German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a barrage of associations and emotions come to mind. I can’t recall ever hearing about him discuss the Marquis de Sade or his relation to the eighteenth century ...

Greatest director of all time (fight me) Rainer Werner Fassbinder covered a range of genres throughout his absurdly prolific career, from science fiction and western to crime film and the melodrama he loved so much, but his overarching theme was ...

Mood music is a phrase that evokes either sounds for some downtown lovin’ or something more in the vein of Jackie Gleason’s’ For Lovers Only. (Believe me, despite the title, there is a HUGE divide between the two categories, unless ...

Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) is generally acknowledged as the cream of the crop when it comes to Sade-themed cinema, specifically adaptations of his work. A few years before its release another Italian filmmaker adapted 120 ...

Recently, the Scottish town of Airdrie — a stone’s throw away from my own town — made headlines across the globe for a court case centred around an incident involving a problematic pooch. In case you aren’t familiar with the ...

  Marat/Sade (Peter Brooks, 1967) is a play within a film, showing the inmates of an asylum performing Sade’s (Patrick Magee) play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under ...

The Bat People is a quintessential American International Pictures release in that it is an out and proud monster movie that carries on what the company delivered from the beginning. However, because the film is a product of the seventies ...