2/14/2008 5:21 PM
posted awhile ago
Re:This movie looks awesome
here is an interesting little bit from Camille Paglia's column in Salon of this past Weds. the 13th: Mitchell Lichtenstein's film "Teeth," which he wrote and directed, premiered in late January after making a sensation at last year's Sundance Film Festival, where it won an award. It's a satirical feminist horror flick. The screenplay was inspired by remarks I made in class about the ancient myth of the vagina dentata ("toothed vagina") when Mitchell was my student at Bennington in the 1970s. I loved the film, which I found extremely amusing as well as impressively produced, from photography to sound (such as the eerie atmospherics of tribal drums). I wrote some special lines for the scene in which Dawn (superbly played by Jess Weixler) surfs the Web for information on her exotic anatomy. Audiences are routinely screaming and cheering at the film's colorful castrations. Her column well ranging and offers interesting comments on a number of films sandwiched in the other topics she writes on... here is the link to the full column. http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/02/13/political_wars/index.html?source=newsletter
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