Not Camille Paglia

Not Camille Paglia

A compilation of Camille Paglia's film commentary and reviews. This account is not personally associated with Dr. Paglia.

Favorite films

  • Persona
  • The Birds
  • Auntie Mame
  • The Godfather Part II

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  • Blow-Up

  • Midnight Express

  • Brokeback Mountain

  • Capote

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  • Blow-Up

    Blow-Up

    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

  • Midnight Express

    Midnight Express

    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

    Cliffhanger

    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

  • Eva

    Eva

    ★★★★★

    I am in ecstasy as I watch Jeanne Moreau at her height vamp around and trash the men of Rome and Venice.

    - Salon.com, June 16, 1999

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