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...Constantine, V for Vendetta), Moore has declined screen credit on the Watchmen movie. But whatever his thoughts on the corruptive properties of cinema, he could have found no more devoted Watch-man than Snyder, who willed the project into screen reality after Terry Gilliam and others failed. The ultimate fetishist auteur, Snyder takes hallowed pulp artifacts--the '70s horror movie Dawn of the Dead, the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 and now this--and films them with the near fanatic fidelity of someone constructing an Eiffel Tower replica out of matchsticks. To Watchmen, he brings a reverence for the text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen: Hero Worship | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...other films made from his stuff (From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Constantine, V for Vendetta), Moore has declined screen credit on the Watchmen movie. But whatever his thoughts on the corruptive properties of cinema, he could have found no more devoted Watch-man than Snyder. The ultimate fetishist-auteur, he takes hallowed pulp artifacts - the '70s horror movie Dawn of the Dead, the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 and now this - and films them with the near-fanatic fidelity of someone constructing an Eiffel Tower replica out of matchsticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen Review: (A Few) Moments of Greatness | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...light and amusing read, this book has something for everyone—whether you’re feeling self-conscious about your body, looking to add to your dirty talk vocabulary, or trying to get in touch with your inner fetishist...

Author: By Deborah Pan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Older Woman Introduces Us To The Joy of Sex | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...sound-byte, the sucker punch, the hyperbolic epithet. His 1994 Rolling Stone obituary for Richard Nixon, whom he loathed, was titled “He Was a Crook”; his catchphrase was “Fear and Loathing.” With language, he was a fetishist, a libertine, drunk on whiskey and the utter extravagance of his writing...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What I Learned From Doc | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

Quentin Tarantino may be an unapologetic sadist, but he is clearly a fetishist as well. Kill Bill, Vol. 2, the follow-up to his ghoulish and gaudy first volume, is an ode to the most cunning and sensuous lips ever to grace the screen...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review: Kill Bill, Vol. 2 | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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