“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.” – Marquis de Sade “The more you hurt me as you have just done, the more you fire my heart and inflame my senses.” – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch In the 19th century, Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Sigmund Freud were pioneers in the field of […]
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The 25 Best Road Movies of All Time
“The theme of the journey,” Federico Fellini once stated in an interview, “is one of the great foundations of the art of narration.” This idea proves true in road films, both literally and figuratively. Movies that emphasize both an inward and outward journey, on a conscious level, constitute a genre in which people travel, often […]
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The 20 Best Southern Gothic Movies
After the Civil War, the South was no longer an epicenter of trade and commerce. Its failure to win the war plunged it into economic and technological turmoil from which it has arguably never fully recovered. For this reason, the South has long been considered to be backwards, anti-intellectual, poverty stricken, and highly religious. One […]
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10 Essential Rainer Werner Fassbinder Films You Need To Watch
Rainer Werner Fassbinder emerged in the late sixties to become one of the most prolific and influential filmmakers of what would become known as New German Cinema. Fassbinder was born in 1945 and like other filmmakers of his generation, including Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff and Wim Wenders, he dramatically altered the cinematic landscape by telling […]