Tag: Banned Films

• A Clockwork Orange (1971) at 55: Copycat Panic and Withdrawal, and Kubrick’s Decades-Long Silence

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  By Adam Page I’m going to tell you about a movie that you once couldn’t watch. Not because a censor or any court said no, but because one man, in one house in Hertfordshire, decided that his own movie was too dangerous to leave in the room with you.  Say it slow: self-imposed. Keep saying…

  

• Erotic Cinema: An Intimate Conversation from the Preaching to the Perverted Podcast hosts

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  R.S. Benedict wrote in 2021 that ‘everyone is beautiful, but no one is horny’ – and we kind of take that personally. We are Rosemary Stillborn and AJ Bravo, perverts, thrill-seekers and hosts of ‘Preaching to the Perverted’, the podcast for freaks and filmophiles. We devote ourselves to not just finding the hottest, dirtiest, and…

  

• ‘The Decade Taste Forgot’ – An Analysis of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

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  by Billy Butler (Sister Jeanne – played by Vanessa Redgrave – at the feet of Oliver Reed’s Urbain Grandier in a religious vision reminiscent of Mary Magdalene at Jesus’ feet. The Devils, 1971, Dir. Ken Russell) Film is a powerful medium. It has the ability to affect our lives – the power to inspire us,…