Word: eroticisms
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Most R-rated films get that tag for lurid violence and language. If there's a bosom on display, it's usually either as a gag (the prosthetic dugs in There's Something About Mary) or a lure to humiliation (in next week's American Pie) or as power-play...
It's not O.K. Sex is too important to be left to the sex-film industry. The erotic impulse and its consequences are crucial. Lovemaking is a powerful experience, the most convulsive emotional and physical drama in most people's lives. And it warrants as much artful attention from film...
...lust in Last Tango in Paris (back then the erotic accessory was butter, not hair gel, and its application was an adventure, not a joke). You had to be 18 to see these films, but so what? Then the kids took over the box office. Hollywood learned how to eroticize violence and forgot how to dramatize eroticism. The new hot hands were directors (Spielberg, Lucas, Scorsese) who didn't care to portray sexual romance. Eros died...
Kirsch was a great guy, and his tip about how the fig doesn't really justify the newton was helpful. I'm not against the idea of employing such courtiers, but when I get rich, I'm thinking more like erotic dancer, personal chef and even a poet, just so...
There's honesty and energy in the film's flashbacking pursuit of that thought. But Chris' lasting luck is his wife Marion. Emily Watson plays her as a kind of dream nanny--knowing, ironic, tolerant of his erotic nostalgia and not as prim as she looks. She, and Metroland, finally...