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Men in Women-
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Masochism, Feminism, Fetish
"Nobody wants to pay to be castrated anymore."
from the editor
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Counter Clockwise: Or Lay Quiet Awhile with Ed and Id Molotov — Re-examining the Crossed Wires in Kubrick's and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange Re-examined
Men in Women-in-Prison: Masochism, Feminism, Fetish — "Nobody wants to pay to be castrated anymore."
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To Slap a Dame: Sexual Violence
in the Age of Reason — "He's the only one that enacts incest with one hand and bats away communists like flies from a dung pile with the other."
The Misery Business: In Which Your Agent Will Be Lauren Bacall — And your ankles will still be broken
Psycho: Queering Hitchcock's Classic — We have met the cross-dressing closeted maniac, and he is us
iron man x2
Iron Man Takes
the Reigns: Robert Downey, Jr., Lookin' Healthy — Racist and slow-moving, with occasional cool shit
"Heckuva Job, Tony!" Racism and Hegemony Rage in Iron Man — Kill a few Arabs and enjoy your cheeseburger
recent cinema roundabout
Across the Universe: Julie Taymor Made the Most Spectacular Film of the Year — Too bad nobody noticed
Think Globally, Role-play Locally: On Olivier Assayas' Thriller Boarding Gate — "Its failures are what make it so watchable."
Haneke's Games: On Funny Games (2007, 1997) — "Should we enjoy being manipulated?"
Ghosts of the Present: On Aditya Assarat's Wonderful Town — "The film is both a bittersweet love story and a memorial to the tsunami victims."
the empty guest room
George Sanders: A Mitigated Cad — "Where on the screen I am invariably a sonofabitch, in life I am a dear, dear boy."
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The Kids Are Not All Right: Larry Clark on Wassup Rockers and More — "For me it was like, How do I manipulate this kid so he can do this and he's comfortable?, which is all part of directing."
"The Best Jewish Cowboy": An Interview with James Caan — "Hard times will make a monkey eat red peppers."
Paradise Betrayed: Talking with Terence Davies about Of Time and the City — "You can't stop time. It stops you."
Object in Mirror May Be Closer Than It Appears: Stuart Gordon Talks about Horror, the Absurd, and Stuck — "These two people are stuck in life."
The Mole Man: Going Underground with Alejandro Jodorowsky — "I think Spielberg is the son from when Walt Disney fucked Minnie Mouse."
cassavetes x2: faces and the killing of a chinese bookie
Where Do We Find Ourselves? John Cassavetes' Faces Turns
40 — "How can one be a maverick independent filmmaker, and be an attentive, loving husband and father?"
A Real Director's Cut: Cassavetes Edits Himself in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie — "It is the subjective fever dream of a psyche carving fantasy out of reality as he goes."
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Blood, Sweat, and Canvas: How Barton Fink Can Set You Free — "All the world's a hell ten feet square"
What's Your Edition Number? The Replicanting of Blade Runner: Final Cut — "There's a whole postmodern hall of mirrors you can wander through with the idea of a digitally re-colored 'final cut' of a 10-year-old 'director's cut' of a 26-year-old movie."
Facism, American Style: Revisiting Kazan and Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd — "Goodnight, you stupid idiots. Goodnight, you miserable slobs."
Plumbing the Depths of Capitalism: On Force of Evil — "It was like going down to the bottom of the world."
Homeless on the Range: The Lusty Men and the "Great American Search" — "He's always holding something back."
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Getting Better All the Time: The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival — Just lose the red carpet
bright sights
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: La Roue, The Last Emperor, Lost in Beijing, Popeye the Sailor, Satantango, Vampyr — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
little stabs
Little Stabs of Homo Happiness (and Horror): Random Short Reviews of the Worthy and the Worthless in Recent Queer TV and Cinema — "The gays — they make too much big crazy!"
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