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Contrast today with the early 1970s, when movies like Straw Dogs, The Devils, Last Tango in Paris and Nichols' own Carnal Knowledge promised a future of truly adult depictions of sex. At the same time, the first wave of porno chic lured the curious to the burgeoning genre of hard-core. It seemed as if these two types of films might meet--that cinema might learn to depict the ordinary, universal and melodramatic collision of two bodies, two souls, in bed. But those days, and those hopes, are deader than disco. Hollywood's erotic audacity and artistic pretensions have shriveled...
...Screw you' in Virginia Woolf. We had to take it out." His next film, The Graduate, in 1967, detailed the passive, loveless affair between a young man and his girlfriend's mother, and daringly mixed physical comedy with the most desperate romance. His boldest film was 1971's Carnal Knowledge, which traced 30 years in the sexual lives of two perpetually immature men. The excoriating chatter in Jules Feiffer's screenplay would be familiar to anyone who has sat at a bar while the guy three stools down pours out his little black heart, but it was new for mainstream...
...also can't agree with himself. Pick one of the statements below: "I think it's about the truth and lying, and the unacknowledged importance of lying in love." "It's like 'Dangerous Liaisons.' It's altogether more like 'Dangerous Liaisons' than 'Carnal Knowledge.' It's about strategy." "This is about things ancillary to sex. In 'Was he better than me?' What's the important thing there? Is it the sex, endowment, technique? Or feelings between people. And I think that the film sort of makes a distinction...
...year-old art student in London in the 1950s, Jack Rathbone meets the already established Scottish painter Vera Savage. Thirteen years older, she's a nasty if bewitching specimen--brilliant when she cares to be but also alcoholic, feckless and carnal. The story of their long, dissolute companionship is told to us by Gin Rathbone, Jack's all-too-loving sister, a woman who does not grasp the full dimensions of the tale she is telling...
When he died last week after losing control of his car and crashing it into a wall, the photographer HELMUT NEWTON, 83, deprived the world of one of its most inventive reprobates. In the 1970s his spike-heeled women, cold but carnal, introduced to fashion photography the idioms of black leather and deluxe European decadence. The son of prosperous Jewish parents, Newton fled from Hitler's Germany to Singapore, where he took up the camera, then to Australia, where he was discovered by Vogue. In London and New York, he developed the louche, provocative style of his breakthrough 1976 book...