Word: sade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oshima extrapolated the film from a real incident. In Tokyo in the 1930s, a prostitute concluded her love affair with a gangster by castrating him, then wandered the streets for several days carrying his severed sex organs. Haunted by Genet and Mishima, animated by memories of De Sade, Oshima splashes a devious course to this bloody resolution. He has the gangster and the whore coupling incessantly, in attitudes reminiscent of the delicate rough-and-tumble of erotic Japanese watercolors. The point of all this-that the full realization of passion is its own justification, that death is the ultimate orgasm...
...formally censured by the Senate. Thus it is that McCarthyism (a word coined by cartoonist Herblock) has become the dictionary term for ruthless and reckless mudslinging and demagogic suppression of criticism; and he will live on in our lexical language with such other extremists as the Marquis de Sade, William Lynch, Thomas Bowdler, Vidkun Quisling, and Anthony Comstock...
Cornell's imagination was allusive, delicate and, in a liberated way, reserved. He had no interest in the erotic, scatological and sadistic images that were basic to French surrealism: the Comte de Lautréamont and the Marquis de Sade did not preside over the house on Utopia Parkway. French surrealism was to a great extent defined by its indispensable enemy, French bourgeois Catholicism. Surrealism's whole mode of attack-the manifestoes, shock treatment and sacerdotal gesticulation-was based on an idea of the artist as public figure, the Anti-Priest, to which Cornell did not subscribe...
...first major film, Accattone, drew clerical criticism for its romanticizing of pimps and prostitutes. Three years later Pasolini made The Gospel According to St. Matthew, which angered the left with its reverence. Just before his death, he completed The 120 Days of Sodoma, based on a Marquis de Sade work and set in Italy's Fascist...
Tart-tongued and tempestuous Actress Glenda Jackson, 39, has played fiery female roles ranging from Charlotte Corday (Marat-Sade) to the D.H Lawrence heroine Gudrun Brangwen (Women in Love). Little wonder that the Academy Award-winning actress has been cast as the spirited Sarah Bernhardt who often demanded that her theatrical fees be paid in gold. "I feel I know her," says Jackson, on the set of Sarah. "She refused to be stifled or live her life to other people's conventions." The Divine Sarah, in fact, liked to take naps in a satin-lined coffin to remind herself...