Ninja Thyberg: “Instead of trying to erase the bad porn, I was like, ‘We need to do good porn!’”
The Swedish director of Pleasure was an anti-porn activist – until she saw how sex workers valued their “erotic capital”.
By
Simran Hans
Latest articles
All Articles
Why Bill Forsyth’s Housekeeping is a stranger, sadder film than it first appears
Set in the 1950s, the movie is a lesson in the suffocating domesticity that women of that time faced.
By
Why Two Lovers is more than just another entry in Joaquin Phoenix’s “isolated eccentric” canon
It’s a tragedy that, at the time of its release, the film – quiet and old-fashioned in its ambitions…
By
Why Tony Scott’s The Hunger is more than just a footnote in David Bowie’s acting career
Bowie was 36 when he starred in Scott's 1983 erotic horror. Five years after his death, it feels strange…
By
Love & Basketball is more than a chick flick
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s 2000 debut film is clear-eyed and serious about female ambition and gender roles.
By
Paul Mazursky’s 1978 romcom An Unmarried Woman captures the thrill of reinvention
The joy is in watching the vulnerable Erica Benton (Jill Clayburgh) build herself back up.
By
Revisiting Paul Schrader’s languorous, late-summer erotic thriller from the Nineties
The floating city of Venice and its winding canals serve as the backdrop to a dark tale in The Comfort…
By
How producer Polly Platt shaped Broadcast News
Nominated for seven Oscars, the film is considered James L Brooks's masterpiece. But another force also moulded the movie.
By
Carl Franklin’s 1995 film Devil in a Blue Dress is a sexy, rich take on neo-noir
Why Devil in a Blue Dress should’ve been a hit.
By