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...DIED. VILGOT SJ?MAN, 81, maverick Swedish film director and prot?g? of Ingmar Bergman whose taboo-challenging, sexually explicit 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) was briefly banned by U.S. censors before going on to become the most profitable foreign film in America until 1994, when Like Water for Chocolate broke the record; in Stockholm...
...DIED. Vilgot Sjoman, 81, maverick Swedish film director and protégé of Ingmar Bergman whose taboo-challenging, sexually explicit 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) was briefly banned by U.S. censors before going on to become the most profitable foreign film in America until 1994, when Like Water for Chocolate broke the record; in Stockholm...
...Movies were getting sexier in the 60s. I mean films. European ones, Scandinavian ones: Bergman's The Silence, Vilgot Sjoeman's I Am Curious Yellow, that not-so-arty art-house hit I, a Woman. Cinema eroticism came with subtitles, until a renegade Hollywood faction got the word and married social and sexual issues in Medium Cool, Easy Rider and the Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy -all rated X, back when that designation simply meant a film for adults, not a porno film. Back when sexually urgent films were made for thinking adults. As I say, this was a long time...
...CURIOUS (YELLOW) and I AM CURIOUS (BLUE). Olof Palme, the former Prime Minister of Sweden, appears in the highly controversial and celebrated 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow). The 1968 counterpart is just as erotic and just as blunt in its portrayal of contemporary youth. Directed by Vilgot Sjˆman. Screenings Saturday Feb. 8. 7 pm and 9:30 pm, respectively. Tickets $7/students $5. No one under 18 admitted. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center...
...Court of Appeals, which labeled the film "obscene," would have us believe A certain openness marks the film, such that we see sex as just another part of the main character's life. But an unpleasant scene involving scabies treatment may indeed be going too far, and director Vilgot Sioman at times seems to be laughing at the comical nature of the film: Lena, the lead, moves in five minutes from meditating topless, to threatening someone with a shotgun, to conjugal bliss in the fields of the lord. Half the time one finds oneself crying "What is happening?" as social...