While any of the Emmanuelle films could have been mentioned here, ‘The Joys of a Woman’ is a film where pretty much all the elements of cinema that can be manipulated to attract the senses of the audience in a sensual manner have been effectively executed. Let it be Francis Lai’s sed...
Todd Haynes’ ‘Carol’ is quite simply one of the most beautiful films about what it feels like to fall in love. These are two people dying to fall in each other’s arms, yearning for a sense of emotional liberation from the clutches of a cold society. Therese is a shy young girl w...
Lionsgate Films Larry Clark’sBullyis terribly hard to watch. Clark has always gone for deep dives in worlds where adolescence is an inevitable fault in modern society. These kids really misbehave. InKids,he made a point, but inBully, he takes one step further and injects malice in the sy...
Laufey's jazz has resonated with Gen Z, due in part to the sonic and aesthetic world she has created. Read her Billboard digital cover story here.
They did not realize that what we’ve created was what propelled them up. The Monster [a gay bar in the West Village] used to have a big sign right there that said No Voguing in there. Photo: Catherine McGann/Getty Images Ricky Tucker: What’s really interesting is that vogue the ...
In 1939, an ocean liner named the MS St. Louis set sail from Hamburg. Along with the crew, the ship carried 937 passengers, all of whom were Jewish and leaving Germany to escape Nazi persecution. The ship was meant to go to Havana, where the passengers had been told that they would ...
Where were the industrial barons and their media allies during those critical hours and days when Switzerland’s second-largest bank was politically brokered into the arms of UBS? Could it be that, at the time, there was a lack of strategic foresight and determination on the part o...
Having said this, the researchers believe that this should be conducted in the actual small-time cinemas where the local filmmakers showcase their films. Taking the participants to an unfamiliar space where they are not able to fully get comfortable, and therefore may struggle to pay full ...
As if that wasn’t bizarre enough, Polanski clearly was interested in the dark side of the occult as seen in the kinds of films he made, including one starring Sharon Tate herself, and in the choice of where he shot “Rosemary’s Baby”…namely the Dakota Building in New York City. ...
or whatever it is, their online sources, when those stories are being told. So I think education has to happen everywhere, and it really has to start in K through 12. Students should be learning about the problems of our society broadly. They should be learning about the problems with the...