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HEREIN is the most grotesque sort of debauchery, growing only gradually out of an urbane but decadent sensuality. Gourmet sophisticates become maniacal gluttons; a plump school teacher becomes a ravenous Rubensian voluptuary. The characters are, for the most part, reluctant even to talk about the secret of their gathering--that...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Pumping the Stomach | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

There's no joy at Ferreri's table: their passions and appetites spent the revelers have no place to go. It's the presence of melancholy and death in the face of a sensational bacchanal that distinguishes Ferreri's feast of carrion from its lowbrow cousins. Characters in porn movies...

Author: By Foster Hirsch, | Title: What Makes 'The Grande Bouffe' Different From a Porno Movie? | 10/26/1973 | See Source »

This is a Fellini movie for people who have never seen a Fellini movie. The images spill in torrents from the screen; the air of a carnival turning into a bacchanal is everywhere. So, alas, is the sense of déjà vu. Fellini has taken us all on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fellini Primer | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

It was to have been Munich's gaudiest, bawdiest Fasching ever. In preparation for the pre-Lenten bacchanal that traditionally enlivens the gray Bavarian midwinter, scores of halls had been decorated with tinfoil, blinking lights, papier-mache figures of fun, and corners intentionally left dark. No fewer than seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Farewell to Fasching? | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

There's an enormous platter of live black eels in an inky sauce, and that's only the hors d'oeuvres. As the guests seat themselves at the banquet, their hostess urinates in a silver chamber pot. Slaves stumble over garbage-strewn floors bearing trays of delicacies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Directors: Petronius, 20%; Fellini, 80% | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

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