A compilation of Camille Paglia's film commentary and reviews. This account is not personally associated with Dr. Paglia.
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Blow-Up 1966
Imagination is far greater than the body. One of my favorite moments in film occurs in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966), where a disillusioned photographer (David Hemmings) encounters a glamorous model (Veruschka) at a drug-filled party in London. "I thought you were going to Paris," he says. She replies, "I am in Paris."
-- Paglia interviewed in "Interfaces," 2019
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Midnight Express 1978
I’ve always adored Midnight Express — not so much for the tinge of homosexuality as for its compellingly nightmarish atmospherics (and of course its sublimely operatic Giorgio Moroder score).
- From "Interview with Camille Paglia", Medium.com (Mark Adnum), 2005.
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Cliffhanger 1993
Stallone's agonistic style is Hellenistic: his taut muscles in Cliffhanger (1993) are those of the Belvedere Torso, and his inner strain and facial torsion are those of the heads of Alexander and the figures of the Pergamon altar.
- From "An Exquisite Palette," by Camille Paglia, Times Literary Supplement, July 21, 1995
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