Nicole Kidman, the post-modern Maya princess for the media age, has an amazing track record for playing women full of complex dichotomies that range both inside and outside the mirror of the image: TO DIE FOR (1993), DOGVILLE (2003), BIRTH (2004), and EYES WIDE SHUT (1998) are prime examples, each in its way a self-reflexive meditation on desire vs. the mechanations of reality, of the spiritual's derailment at the hands of sex. She's a hottie, tall...
середа, 28 квітня 2010 р.
South Park Terrorism and the Nicole Kidman Experience
Posted on 08:22 by jackichain
Posted in Baudrillard, lacan, Nicole Kidman, Post-Modernism, Stanley Kubrick, Terrorism
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субота, 24 квітня 2010 р.
Enhancement of Anguish: Godard's VIVRE SA VIE (1963) on blu-ray:
Posted on 13:29 by jackichain

The release this week of Godard's 1963 uber-artsy Vivre sa Vie ("My Life to Live!") should mean a lot to fans of French New Wave cinema, even the poseurs like me who just like it because all the women are beautiful and everyone smokes and never show their teeth, for good reason. And of all the beautiful women of the new wave, Anna Karina stands out for her unconscious savvy and button-nose cute meets existentially adrift persona. The hipster intellectual's...
понеділок, 19 квітня 2010 р.
Dead Jennifers
Posted on 15:56 by jackichain

Sex + death, the two go to bed together like cotton and thread, weaving celluloid flytraps, sticking like glue to our attention span's twitchy antennae. And in horror movies, chicks with curves and fangs, guys with rods and pokers, it all comes together, and the girls are named.... Jennifer? Oh, Jennie!But dig, why do we need the moralist, the conscience? What's wrong with offing the transgressors if they happen to be misogynist frat boys? Why is...
Posted in Dario Argento, Deadgirl, Diablo Cody, feminism, Jennifer, Jennifer's Body, Jungian, Karyn Kusama, Megan Fox, zombies
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середа, 14 квітня 2010 р.
The Sorrows of Softcore are the Joys of Art: L'IMPORTANT C'EST D'AMIER (1975, Andrzej ZulawskI)
Posted on 06:00 by jackichain

The French love their neuromantic triangles, what's up with that? Well, I dated a French lady and I can tell you; they love what they call a cinq à sept (like Cleo, it means from 5-7): a pre-set tryst with one's lover on the way between work and home for dinner. Participating in this convenient and marvelous alternative to a conventional relationship can ruin you for all other kinds, specifically the "I can't understand why you don't like my friends"...
Posted in Andrzej Zulawski, Jacques Dutronc, Jess Franco, Klaus Kinski, porn, Romy Schneider, sex
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неділя, 11 квітня 2010 р.
League of Wednesdays: SPIDER BABY (1968)
Posted on 21:32 by jackichain

Having just seen, loved, and written about Girly (1970), I must delve into its American cousin, Jack Hill's de-lovely Spider Baby (1968), for Stacie Ponder's Ye Olde Film Club Day over at the definitive Final Girl. And if you needed a reason to love Spider Baby, think of its homicidal purity in contrast with, say, the new Addams Family musical, which I've read disturbing things about via the NY Times' Ben Brantley:Gomez (Mr. Lane) and...
четвер, 8 квітня 2010 р.
Head Under Heels: GIRLY (1970)
Posted on 18:15 by jackichain

Much as I love grindhouse cinema, I'll confess some of the themes--the rape-revenge and WIP sub-genres in particular--often leave me feeling soiled and soured on humanity, walking the streets adrift like a Tennessee Williams heroine, pining for dead ideals and sensing only brusque, licentious hostility all around. As an English major at Syracuse during the mid-to-late 1980s, I was caught up in a time of great liberal backlash/sexual hysteria--Satanic...
Posted in Brenda Wiley, British, Deadly Women, Lesbianism, Murder, Regicide, spider baby, Vagina Dentata
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