[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuVXe6gRICE]
Audition (1999) Takashi Miike
An introduction by the director, Takashi Miike
The previous “World Cinema Classics“
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuVXe6gRICE]
Audition (1999) Takashi Miike
An introduction by the director, Takashi Miike
The previous “World Cinema Classics“
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N64QVG4CYHc]
Videodrome (1983) – David Cronenberg
All “World Cinema Classics“
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUgHDIqON_E]
I’ve always wanted to see this film, in fact, maybe I have.
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_JVgaVDDfI]
Nowy Janko muzykant (1961) – Jan Lenica
Lenica worked on many early animations with Borowczyk, and is famous for his fantastic poster designs. The cut-out animations remind me of Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python animations. Not necessarily of this one, but of this one and this one. Enjoy.
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4aO8LtUEw]
Immoral Tales (1974) Walerian Borowczyk
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kidEjpsxS3w]
Of all the books I bought in 2007, I’m happiest with Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor (1968) by Gershon Legman. I’ve reported on the book here and here. Yesterday evening I was reading the jokes on marriage and was alerted to Legman’s use of the term sex-hatred so I googled for it and found a very funny imaginary phonecall between Mr. Gershon Legman and “Fredric Wertham” (Ethan Persoff) partly quoted here:
“Now where was I? Oh, yes. It is no accident that the end of Restoration bawdry coincided precisely with the fullest flowering of literary sadism in England. The Elizabethans had wrung blood in plenty out of sex — in Romeo and Juliet, a ‘love’-play, seven of the characters are carted off dead — but there was no dearth of lust. Times change. The elegant eighteenth-century littérateurs, Johnson and Pope, are famous equally for the sexual purity of their writing, the sadistic cruelty of their speech. Sex being forbidden, violence took its place.”
In the early 1970s, Germaine Greer would elaborate on Legman’s sex-hatred by coining the term cunt-hatred used in such essays such as “Lady love your cunt“. I love Greer.
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRTCwBB4buc]
Flesh (2005) – Edouard Salier (NSFW)
In the words of Salier:
Flesh contrasts Americans and terrorists. America as corrupt, libidinous and excessive as religious fundamentalists present it. America, the superpower, filled with such fervour and energy that it can feed its own aggressions and contain within itself a violence inherent to the foundations of its very empire. –via Strike Back Films.
More Salier:
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuSkaI_hAWk]
Empire (2005)
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWmvMuxNQuM]
Toks
Most (all?) of the music by Doctor L.
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxWz0VzAWPE]
Tony Allen / Doctor L – Never satisfied
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0IJSOq0xg]
The Culture Show documentary
Every once and a while an artist comes along who makes me laugh. Banksy is one of them.
More on Banksy by my online friends The Laughing Bone, Never Trust a Hippy, Mister Bijou, Dub Dot Dash, Limbic Nutrition. I can’t believe I was so late in finding Banksy.
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9waiuxjDts]
I suspect that this is not the original soundtrack. Anyone?
Sorry, found it. “A Tiels Leis” by Belgian musician Wim Mertens best known for “Close Cover” and “Struggle for Pleasure”.