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“Ultimately, THE SWIMMER may simply be the portrait of a Man, and the story of the desperately small man who hides within that portrait, and the devastation wrought by his attempts to inhabit the myths of manhood needed to sustain that strange simulacra.” https://t.co/P4LqAxe0JM
To celebrate our EROTIC THRILLERS issue, every Friday night of this hot and sweaty July we’ll be suggesting an erotic thriller double feature—one mainstream, one lesser-known.
Tonight’s double:
SEA OF LOVE (1989) / STRIPPED TO KILL (1987)
Today on the site: our Erotic Thrillers issue kicks off with @ArenBergstrom on the "evolutionary eroticism" of David Cronenberg's Crash (plus new art from @vmenendezb!) https://t.co/Tv7LVe5g2W
With the film now on @criterionchannl, read @aHeartOfGould on BODY DOUBLE: "A smirking, porn-pop uncanny valley of Hitchcockian anti-reality heat-warped by sexual obsession into an unhinged flood of Brian D's megatonic, metafilmic id."
🎨: @studiotstella
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Today on the site: our Best Laid Plans issue wraps up with @justbrizigs on Claudia Weill’s “Girlfriends” and what happens to best friendships when paths to adulthood diverge (with new art by @studiotstella) https://t.co/Tat69nnIpm
"The Empire Strikes Back is about doing the work after all passion for that work is gone, about the slow, hard attempts to see a long-term plan through with no hope of success in sight." -@dodgyboffin https://t.co/4nituvzVmw
"In principle, apocalypse might imply a clean, sudden ending, but in practice, it’s a drawn-out & uneven descent. I can think of few works of art that understand this better than THE LEFTOVERS." https://t.co/bllYLxiuTx
Today on the site: @KateBlowers on Toshiro Mifune, and the comfort of stories that remind us “everything may go wrong, but at least it can go wrong in style.” (Plus new art by @studiotstella!) https://t.co/aFg7VrWICp
"The Three Colors trilogy unfolds in a kind of cinematic rotational form. Images are recycled through all 3 films; as they repeat, they deepen the mystery a little, like related scales laid down on top of each other to make curious & introspective chords." https://t.co/afZoBJrMPC
"If Van Sant was a Mike he wouldn’t be telling the story, and if I was a Mike I wouldn’t be missing MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO’s Portland. It’s Mike’s story, but it is up to the Scotts to remember it." -@crf_pdx https://t.co/sc5jVah0iG