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Issue 49: Sex

July 2017

Keira Knightley in Atonement | Focus Features

In This Heat

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 49: Sex
The first act of Atonement (2007) takes place in the summer of 1935 in Shropshire, England, and this is the kind of heat that’ll drive you insane.
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Prowling for You: On Watching Sex Scenes as a Woman

Jeva Lange·
Issue 49: Sex
There are very few sex scenes made for skin-hungry female eyes. Such a thing is not supposed to exist. We are not supposed to exist.
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Even As I Am Fully Known

Kara Shroyer·
Issue 49: Sex
Secretary never exploits or stereotypes BDSM for sport; never uses it as a sideshow; never markets it as a pathology to overcome.
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What We Make Movies With

Joel Blackledge·
Issue 49: Sex
Tsai Ming-liang seems to make his films not only about but with desire, a material as integral to their construction as celluloid and light.
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Warning: Sex Changes Everything

Brianna Low·
Issue 49: Sex
Teeth skewers social and cultural mores that contribute to the demonization of female sexuality.
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Up the Rabbit Hole: Through the Porno Looking Glass with Alice in Wonderland (1976)

Charles Bramesco·
Issue 49: Sex
Alice in Wonderland has some profoundly upsetting cognitive dissonances to it; I went in expecting a porno and was surprised to encounter a swirling torrent of psychosexual terror.
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I’ll Show You What Horror Means

Elise Moore·
Issue 49: Sex
ear the end of David Lynch’s harrowing Fire Walk With Me, Laura Palmer and fellow teen prostitute Ronette Pulaski are...
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For Bryan Fuller, Sex Indicates Transformation

Rae Nudson·
Issue 49: Sex
If you took the sex scenes from Bryan Fuller’s TV shows and spliced them all together, you just might get the best show on TV.
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Sex, Violence, and Spring Breakers

Marshall Shaffer·
Issue 49: Sex
It’s a lustful, even pervy, gaze, but director Harmony Korine invites his audience to share it before he deconstructs it.
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See Me: Intersectional Sexuality in Margarita, with a Straw

Geetha Iyer·
Issue 49: Sex
Is it so much to ask, to see someone you relate to reflected on screen?
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‘A Bad Woman on the Page’: Erotica and Quills

Kayleigh Donaldson·
Issue 49: Sex
The Marquis de Sade was kind of a hack.
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Is This Something, or Is This Just Right Now?

Ethan Warren·
Issue 49: Sex
Movie sex vs. real life, through the lens of Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa
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