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The Look of Lust: The Posters of BDSM
As the years go by, more and more films are delving into the realm of what the MPAA would call, "Strange Behavior". Featured below are some of the most well known films in the genre of BDSM as well as one of the newest entries into the club, The Duke of Burgun...
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Sex(ist): On Cinematic Nudity
No surprise that David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s controversial best-selling novel Gone Girl became a big hit upon its release. One aspect of the film that generated unexpected chatter, however, was Ben Affleck’s penis. Days (weeks?) after critics...
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Future Panic: Temporal Anxiety in 2014 Films
In her 2006 text "Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image," film theorist Laura Mulvey carefully maps out the medium's obsession with death. Celluloid degrades, film preservation provides a finite but eternal life to dead people, and home-viewing of...
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Songs in the Key of Cinema: “Born to Be Wild” and the Provocation of Lars von Trier
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
From putting his female pr...
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“Nymphomaniac” and “Grey Rape” in Entertainment
There is no rape in Nymphomaniac: Volume I. Except there is. Or at least, one could read that into it. While I don't completely subscribe to the "Death of the Author" theory, I do believe that it's possible to read an interpretation into a piece of work beside...
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“Nymphomaniac Vol. II” Gives Us The Whole Story And Much More
The problem with the release of Nymphomaniac isn't that it was split into two volumes – it’s that those volumes were released on different days. The idea of splitting a film into multiple volumes, in of itself, is actually an extremely exciting one. Can you im...
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“Nymph()maniac: Vol. I”: Lars Von Trier Waves His Freak Flag
Reviewing Danish troublemaker Lars von Trier's latest film, Nymph()maniac feels like nothing more than a fool's errand. That's partially because the movie opening in theaters this Friday is just the first half of the entire production, whose second entry relea...
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Lars Von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac” Gets US Release Date
We've seen the posters covered in O-faces, we've heard buzz about its reported five-hour length and the fact that it will be split into two films, we've seen the trailer that pushed the limits of YouTube's standards and practices as far as it could go, and we ...
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Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ Trailer Delights in Depravity and Lust
The first trailer for Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac has been released and its about what you would expect.
Nymphomaniac follows Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) on her illustrious sexual escapades from birth to the age of 50. She's a self-proclaimed Nymphomaniac ...
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