… than violent representations of women being murdered after being forced to have sex. Read more »
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” Read more »
Then something went wrong,
for Fay Wray and King Kong
they got caught in a celluloid jam.
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After all the intriguing discussion on Mark’s sf thread, I reckon we need an sf film thread for Thursday night.
That should be enough of a discussion starter!
Is it just me, or is Quantum of Solace about the dumbest movie title you've heard for a while?
Hardly rates against Octopussy, From Russia with Love, or even Licence to Kill, for that matter.
I suspect they’re dead and gone now as uni courses (cos’ Madonna is a very Gen X phenomenon), but one of the staples of the anti-pomo anti-cultural studies culture wars used to be claims that Universities were teaching subjects about the Detroit diva rather than, you know, Shakespeare. Read more »
Not a post about Roxy Music… I’ve just been watching Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii’s rather stunning film Avalon on dvd. It’s effectively a live action anime - made in Poland in Polish using Polish actors for a Japanese and international audience, rather than for a domestic one. Read more »
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