I’m not kidding — this is the nearest a movie has come to replicating the sexuality in Kafka novels.
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Midnight 1939
Colbert is my least favorite of the old Hollywood actresses. 1) She has a grandma’s hairdo and ridiculous eyebrows. 2) The stories about her only allowing herself to be photographed on one side make me think she would have been an irritatingly vain person. 3) She often plays women who are more concerned with money than love. 4) I get the impression she thought she was drop dead gorgeous but — I’m sorry — hers was a comparatively homely type…
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory 1991
The story is Gundam-standard — a bit loose and unfocused, but as a piece of glossy robot porn, this series is unmatched. The high contrast animation, the shiny red surfaces, the look of the mechs, debris, wires, and explosions against the backdrop of space — extraordinarily pretty.
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Beyond Ultra Violence: Uneasy Listening by Merzbow 1998
There’s an instructive moment in this documentary in which Akita is talking about the differences between seppuku and harakiri, and at a certain point, the subtitles just stop, even as he goes on speaking.
I appreciate a small section of the Merzbow discography. However, when it comes to interpretations of Bataille, the history of SM pornography, or the relationship of noise music to the eroticism of car crashes, I don’t think Akita has anything very enlightening to say. (And to…
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