Legacies of Sade: Gothic Kink in The Whip and The Body (1963)
*This article contains spoilers* There is something downright uncanny about Mario Bava’s...
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Legacies of Sade: Libertine Black Metal and the Sadeian World of Carpathian Forest
Since their formation in 1992, Carpathian Forest have established themselves as one of the more...
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Legacies of Sade: Justine and Juliette, Vice and Virtue
Vice and virtue are two concepts that are at the heart of many works by The Marquis de Sade. The...
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Legacies of Sade: To Succubus (1968), With Love
For my money, director Jess Franco is the best and most prolific adapter of what I would call...
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Legacies of Sade: Masochistic Liberation in Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to...
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Legacies of Sade: Death by Gourmet in Ferreri’s La Grande Bouffe (1973)
Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) is generally acknowledged as the cream of the...
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Legacies of Sade: Theater, Insanity, and Revolution in Marat/Sade (1967)
“A writer of books with hope on every page, or the most vicious butcher of his age…” Marat/Sade,...
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Legacies of Sade: Anglo-Amalgamated’s Sadeian Trilogy
Essentially unknown aside more popular British studios that had an emphasis on genre films, like...
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Legacies of Sade: Prison, The Body, and Hunger (2008)
Violence and abjection are often–or should I say constantly–co-mingled with sexuality...
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Legacies of Sade: Man Ray’s Imaginary Portraits
“Sade is surrealist in sadism.” —André Breton The legacy of the Marquis de Sade can be felt...
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Legacies of Sade: 50 years since The Libertine (1968)
When considering the idea of libertinism, the Marquis de Sade is one of the first historical...
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Legacies of Sade: The Ages of Lulu (1990) and Juliette’s Spanish Daughters
“I like the idea of putting my life in your hands.” —The Marquis de Sade, Juliette This is the...
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