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Belle de Jour, you're nothing like her
26 November 2009 5:22 AM, PST
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Dr Magnati's sex blogger, Belle de Jour, bears no resemblance to the surreal and toxic world inhabited by Catherine Deneuve's character in Buñuel's film of the same name
Just over a week ago, Dr Brooke Magnanti, a post-doctoral researcher in medical science, outed herself as "Belle De Jour" in an interview with the Sunday Times and since then the controversy has rumbled on. Sceptics think that Dr Magnanti's account of herself is evasive and embellished, and that she has dishonestly glamourised prostitution. Last night, an edition of Radio 4's The Moral Maze was devoted to it.
Needing cash to complete her PhD, Dr Magnanti signed on with a high-class escort agency and worked from 2003 to late 2004, seeing "clients" on average two or three times a week, charging £300 per hour, of which the agency took £100. So if she worked for, say, a year and a half, and never saw the same client twice,
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- Peter Bradshaw
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Can Sexual Provocation Still Sell?
28 October 2009 6:15 AM, PDT
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Barring some epic year-end bombshell, Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" is sure to walk away with the designation of year's most provocative movie -- with its sadomasochistic sex, penis smashing and spontaneous clitorectomy, it rivals Nagisa Oshima's 1976 cinema scandal "In the Realm of the Senses" in its efforts to shock and offend.
It's a useful comparison. Over the years, international art cinema has often been inextricably tied to our most prurient desires. In the 1960s, foreign masterpieces were as much about championing auteurs as glimpsing a choice piece of European ass. Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" was marketed with blonde bombshell Anita Ekberg dancing around in Dionysian ecstasy, while Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" and Luis Bunuel's "Belle De Jour" were literally sold off the naked backsides of Bridget Bardot and Catherine Deneueve. But do such depictions of outré sex still sell challenging foreign cinema today?
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- Anthony Kaufman
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 7/14/2009
12 July 2009 10:44 AM, PDT
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Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, July 14, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last-minute additions and deletions.
Presented with "branching" coverage with trailers, interviews, and reviews for select titles!
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Asalto Violento (Traumatized, 1993) - Distrimax
Robert Smith is an outstanding doctor, devoted to teaching at a local university in Mexico City. During a trip to Vietnam he suffers a violent assault at the hands of a group of terrorists while he was being intimated with a local girl. After his arrival he discovers that he has contracted an incurable disease; traumatized by the attack and his illness, he will
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Pedro & Penélope / Quentin & Diane
4 May 2009 9:57 PM, PDT
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My best friend Jensen, whose favorite filmmakers are Andrei Tarkovsky and Pedro Almodóvar, brought me home this Spanish Vanity Fair (pictured left, April 2009) from his trip to Barcelona. Before he left he kept imagining fourgies with Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson. He was okay with any combo should one of them be unavailable. His cinematically inspired fantasy did not come to pass but things did heat up: he nearly burned down his hotel room. True story (!) albeit not for this blog.
Here in the States April's Vanity Fair cover gave us the overexposed Apatow boys. I demand a refund!
I can't read Spanish but I like pretty pictures and they require no linguistic skills.
I love pretending that Penélope is a badass harpist, don't you? Not every actress can pluck those multi-colored strings. It's a rarified skill.
Speaking of directors and their muses...
Did you see Sunday's NY Times Magazine?
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- NATHANIEL R
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