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WOMEN FILMING SEX: MARIELLE NITOSLAWSKA’S “BAD GIRL”

By | February 2002

There’s nothing teasing or exploitative about “Bad Girl”, which studies its subject from a variety of different vistas, some humorous, some businesslike, and some philosophical…

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WOMEN FILMING SEX: MARIELLE NITOSLAWSKA’S “BAD GIRL”

In the wake of such recent documentaries on the once-underground, now omnipresent porn industry as "Wadd" and Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy comes...

ARE “SAM” AND THE CRITICS MENTALLY CHALLENGED?

THE CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times), Charles Taylor (salon.com), Owen Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly), Frank Lovece...

FREE WINONA!

AN OPEN LETTER TO WINONA RYDER: ^ In one of my pettier moments, I said that Winona Ryder couldn't get arrested in Hollywood these days. Well, you proved...

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE “SECAUCUS SEVEN?”

John Sayles debut film, "Return of the Secaucus Seven," gave birth to the modern independent film. Here's a film, shot in static locations, with no camera...

IS THE “MOTHMAN” GONNA FLY?

CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Steve Rhodes (internetreviews.com), Owen Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly), Sean P. Means (Salt Lake Tribune), Michæl Dequina...

FILM THREAT’S TOP 10 LOST FILMS

Film preservation is a relatively recent development, spurred on during the past two decades in an effort to prevent the treasures of the cinema from...

WAKE UP! DO THE RIGHT THING RECONSIDERED

It bothers me when people get ticked off at Spike Lee's public persona, because I think that he does himself and his work a disservice by falling into the...

NOT ANOTHER ENVELOPE — PLEASE!

I could have sworn the past half decade had been a middling one for movies overall but evidently I was mistaken. Apparently Hollywood has been producing so...

NOT ANOTHER ENVELOPE — PLEASE! (part 3)

The honoring was still far from over though. With the Golden Globes just days away, the National Society of Film Critics (all 52 of them) grabbed the...

NOT ANOTHER ENVELOPE — PLEASE! (part 2)

In April, for example, you've got your annual Italian Film Awards based in Los Angeles and honoring excellence in Italian and Italian American filmmaking....

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