Word: eroticisms
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Led by X, the three try every available erotic permutation--the movie isn't that heterosexual. But as in all Araki films, the true, unbreakable love match is between sex and death. Signs in discos and delis announce: WELCOME TO HELL, SHOPLIFTERS WILL BE EXECUTED, PREPARE FOR THE APOCALYPSE. And...
Would that it were. Hollywood films often wallow in bloodlust and sexual smirking--it's the Kingdom of Leer--but genuine eroticism is hard to find. Maybe Verhoeven is right when he says, "Americans have a problem accepting sexuality. American society is more impregnated with Christian beliefs." And to those who find the very idea of sex unholy, it may be as pointless to prefer the erotic to the lurid as to choose a call girl over a hooker. But Showgirls is cold, antierotic. It just ain't sexy; it's only...
"Showgirls" wants to be an erotic psychodrama and a moral satire all at once, but turns out to be nothing more than a tease. The film's pretentious direction and disingenuous thematic grappling do little to disguise its creators' real intentions. "Showgirls" is just a racier version of the ubiquitous...
Never rigid, Rosen's ideas grow from his intimacy with the music. The book comes with a CD (a wonderful idea) on which Rosen plays 16 selections that he analyzes in the book. Rosen has concurrently released a separate recording, also called The Romantic Generation (Music Masters Classics), that contains...
Nagano's skills were in ample evidence during the first-ever visit of the adventurous Lyons company to America, part of the 50th-anniversary celebration of the U.N. in San Francisco. Leading Prokofiev's slight, charming fable The Love for Three Oranges, he managed to find wit and poetry in...