Category: Uncensored
Around the World in 80 Films: Dogtooth
Dogtooth comes from the warped mind of Yorgos Lanthimos, who divided audiences with last years brilliantly wonderful, if not disturbing film The Killing of a…
Shivers – Humanity Collapsing From Within
Over the years, Cronenberg’s debut film Shivers has gained the reputation for being the ‘thinking man’s horror film’. It’s a film that provided both bloody…
Feeling Blue: The deeply disturbing Perfect Blue
It’s hard to find the words to describe Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue, but I shall do my best to describe it. Perfect Blue is an…
Nasty nasty Videos: Exploring the moral panic that led to the video nasty ban
In 1984 (yes, really in 1984 of all years, the irony would not be lost of George Orwell), the British government drew up a list…
Red Hot! How Red Headed Woman Played Hard to Get with the Censors
I made up my mind a long time ago, I’m not gonna spend my whole life on the wrong side of the railroad tracks. Lil…
Cruising Out Of Control: Revisiting William Friedkin's Cruising
“I implore readers — gay, straight, liberal, radical, atheist, communist, or whatever — to give Friedkin and his production crew a terrible time if you…
There Ain't Nothing Like Deborah Kampmeier's Hounddog
Hounddog is a tragedy of a film. It’s a tragedy, on one level, because it is quite simply an artistic disaster. But mostly it is…
Midnight Special: How Midnight Cowboy Changed Cinema Forever
Whatever you hear about Midnight Cowboy is true. Official tagline for Midnight Cowboy Writers’ Note: This article does feature some language which some may find…
Last Tango in Paris and the Context of Memory
What started with I am Curious Yellow in the late 60s begat 1971’s challenging jamborees such as A Clockwork Orange, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Ken Russell’s The Devils. 70s auteurs pushed the envelope without remorse – or fear. To experience Last Tango in Paris in the same context in which it first appeared is simply impossible now, but we were ready back then.
