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...they were promoted to kings, probably because frankincense is associated with royalty in one of the Psalms. Their number, which varied in different accounts from two to 12, eventually settled on three, most likely because of their three gifts. By the 700s they had achieved their current names--Melchior, Gaspar and Balthasar--and multiculti composition. "The first is said to have been ... an old man with white hair and a long beard," reads a medieval Irish description. "The second ... beardless and ruddy-complexioned ... the third, black-skinned and heavily bearded." Scholars have suggested that the mix either was intended...
After a controversial run in Europe, Gaspar Noe’s shockingly violent film Irreversible opens in North America this weekend. Since its European release, the film has become notorious as a kind of censorship stomping ground, reviving the age-old debate of art over content. The film itself, however, deserves more...
...Virtual World. She will be Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's Jesus film, The Passion. But why wait? Tears, a smart, sturdy war film with a lot of heart and a little cleavage, opens this week. And in the art houses there's more, much more of Bellucci in Gaspar Noe's defiantly lurid Irreversible, in which, for nine minutes, her character endures the most brutal rape scene in movie history...
...helps creates the zestiest airborne coupling since the Flying Fucks trapeze duo in Peter Locke?s very funny 1973 porn film ?It Happened in Hollywood.? Lee is on the receiving end of the most harrowing rape scene in movie history (and, yes, Francophiles, I?m including the one in Gaspar No?s ?Irreversible?). Halfway through Herman Yau?s ?The Untold Story,? Anthony Wong drags her into his shuttered restaurant and ... I?ll just say it?s eye-bulgingly grotty. Sensitive souls will look away when Wong brings out the chopsticks...
...film" automatically means porno; sexually explicit movies and serious movies are considered two separate genres. In Europe, they provocatively coexist. In fact, the art-sex picture has blossomed so fully that it is very nearly its own genre. The past few years have seen such stark French studies as Gaspar Noe's I Stand Alone, Bruno Dumont's The Life of Jesus and L'Humanite, and Breillat's Romance and A Real Young Girl (all of which have played in U.S. theaters and are available on video). These films are grim, graphic and not so much erotic as grittily naturalistic...