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Indie Sex
''Indie Sex'' is a 2007 American television documentary film directed by Lesli Klainberg. Synopsis The four-part documentary series that explores sexuality as it is presented and received in films and throughout film history. The movie looks at how film and policy makers have attempted to censor and free sexual images, whether it be through regulations or exploring topics such as teen sex, sexual taboos, or pushing material to sexual extremes. Discussions range from the Pre-Code film era as early as the 1910s to modern cinema. Featured in ''Indie Sex'' * Dita Von Teese * Heather Matarazzo * Peter Sarsgaard * Guinevere Turner * Alonso Duralde * Colette Burson * Dana Stevens * Jami Bernard Jami Bernard (born August 10, 1956) is an American author and media consultant, an award-winning film critic for ''The New York Post'' and ''The New York Daily News'', and the founder of Barncat Publishing. She has appeared in documentaries as her ... * Catherine Breillat References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesli Klainberg
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Dita Von Teese
Heather Renée Sweet (born September 28, 1972), known professionally as Dita Von Teese, is an American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, and businesswoman. She is credited with re-popularizing burlesque performance, earning the moniker "Queen of Burlesque". Von Teese has been seen in ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''RuPaul's Drag Race,'' '' The Masked Dancer'', ''The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell'', among other television productions. She is also known for her short marriage to singer Marilyn Manson as well as performing in his music videos. Von Teese has released two books on burlesque history, fetishism and beauty. She has also recorded songs with French musician Sébastien Tellier. She has toured the world with her burlesque shows in cities like London, Berlin, New York and Paris. Among her special guests on the tours are Dirty Martini, Perle Noire, Ginger Valentine, Jett Adore and Playboy model Gia Genevieve. Von Teese has been a special guest at the Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Matarazzo
Heather Christina Marie Matarazzo (born November 10, 1982) is an American actress. Her breakthrough role was Dawn Wiener in the film ''Welcome to the Dollhouse'' (1995). She played Lilly in ''The Princess Diaries'' (2001) and '' The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'' (2004). Her other films include '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1997), ''Scream 3'' (2000), ''Sorority Boys'' (2002), ''Saved!'' (2004), and ''Scream'' (2022). Early life Matarazzo is of Irish descent; her biological father was Pat Corley from Knock, County Mayo. She was adopted and raised by the Matarazzos, a Catholic Italian-American family. Career Matarazzo began acting at the age of six; after commandeering the microphone at an AIDS benefit for children, she was given the card of a talent manager, with whom she remained for 10 years. In 1997, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance as adolescent social outcast Dawn Wiener in ''Welcome to the Dollhouse''. Matarazzo has expressed pleasure in be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sarsgaard
John Peter Sarsgaard (; born March 7, 1971) is an American actor. His first feature role was in '' Dead Man Walking'' in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films ''Another Day in Paradise'' and ''Desert Blue''. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in '' The Man in the Iron Mask'' (1998), playing Raoul, the ill-fated son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in '' Boys Don't Cry'' (1999) as John Lotter. He landed his first leading role in the 2001 film ''The Center of the World''. For his portrayal of Charles Lane in '' Shattered Glass'', Sarsgaard received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Sarsgaard has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including '' Garden State'', '' Kinsey'' (both 2004), '' Jarhead'' (2005), ''Elegy'' (2008), ''An Education'' (2009), '' Lovelace'' (2013), '' Night Moves'' (2013), ''Blue Jasmine'' (2013), '' Black Mass'' (2015), '' Jackie'' (2016), and ''The Lost Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guinevere Turner
Guinevere Jane Turner is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director. She has written such films as ''American Psycho'' and ''The Notorious Bettie Page'' and played the lead role of the dominatrix Tanya Cheex in '' Preaching to the Perverted''. Early life Turner was born in Boston, and is the oldest of six children. Her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Hobbs Turner, was a member of the United States Marine Corps in 1944 during World War II. Turner spent the first eleven years of her life as part of the Lyman Family, raised in various communes around the U.S. with over 100 members who were devotees of Mel Lyman and who believed they would eventually live on Venus. Though Turner acknowledged that the Lyman Family had been portrayed as a cult she argued against using the word to describe them. In accordance with the customs of the Lyman Family, Turner was not raised by her mother, but she and her younger sister were eventually ejected from the Family after their mother chos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alonso Duralde
Alonso Duralde (born May 18, 1967) is an American film critic, author, and podcaster. Personal life Duralde was born in East Point, Georgia, the youngest of seven children born to Spanish immigrants. He attended Vanderbilt University and currently lives in West Hollywood, California with his husband, fellow writer and film critic Dave White. They co-host the podcast ''Linoleum Knife'', which began in late 2010. He was raised Catholic, but now identifies as an atheist. In January 2010, Duralde was a contestant on ''Jeopardy!''. Career He was the artistic director at the USA Film Festival/Dallas for five years. He was also the former arts and entertainment editor at the national gay and lesbian magazine '' The Advocate''. In 2007, he became the film critic for MSNBC.com, and in 2009, his reviews began appearing regularly on ''The Rotten Tomatoes Show''. Duralde is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. His writing has appeared in ''The Village Voice'', ''Movieli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Burson
Colette Burson (born June 22, 1970) is an American television writer, screenwriter, producer and director. She is the creator, executive producer and showrunner of the HBO television show, ''Hung''. In 2021 she is adapting the best selling novel ''The Growing Season'' by Sarah Frey for ABC, as well as writing the limited series ''Love Canal'' for Showtime, directed by Patricia Arquette. Past work on shows includes '' Los Espookys'' for HBO and '' The Riches'' for FX. She is also the writer and director of the 2017 film ''Permanent''. Early life and education Burson grew up in Abingdon, Virginia. She attended the University of Virginia, majoring in rhetoric and French, and went on to receive her MFA in dramatic writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Career Burson was a founding member of the theater company the Playwrights Collective, working at the company from 1991 until 1999, along with Kate Robin, Eduardo Machado, Lucy Thurber, Dan Rybicky, Jennif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Stevens (screenwriter)
Dana Stevens (born October 16, 1963) is an American screenwriter and television writer/producer. Early life Dana grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and is a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA. Career She has written films including The Woman King, starring Viola Davis and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood; Netflix hit Fatherhood, starring Kevin Hart; the adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel, '' Safe Haven'', directed by Lasse Hallstrom; '' City of Angels'', starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan; '' For Love of the Game'', directed by Sam Raimi; '' Blink'', directed by Michael Apted; and '' Life or Something Like It'', starring Angelina Jolie. She was the creator and executive producer of ''What About Brian'', an ABC television series produced by J. J. Abrams that aired for two seasons and "Reckless" on CBS. Stevens did an uncredited rewrite on ''The World Is Not Enough'', directed by her then-husband Michael Apted, primarily to strengthen the female characters' roles. She was the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard (born August 10, 1956) is an American author and media consultant, an award-winning film critic for ''The New York Post'' and ''The New York Daily News'', and the founder of Barncat Publishing. She has appeared in documentaries as herself, including the Independent Film Channel's ''Indie Sex'' series, on which she was a consultant. Bernard wrote a ''Lois Lane'' comic for DC Comics in which Lois is based on Bernard's early career at ''The New York Post''. Bernard is a frequent guest on TV and radio shows; appearances include on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah'', Today (NBC program), ''The Today Show'', and ''Lynn Samuels'' on Satellite Radio. Her work has been published in numerous magazines, including ''Entertainment Weekly'', ''Seventeen'', ''Glamour'', and ''Self''. Family Bernard's maternal grandparents were from Białystok, Poland. She was raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. Her paternal grandfather took the name Bernard while pass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat (; born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School. In the film business for over 40 years, Catherine Breillat chooses to normalize previously taboo subjects in cinema. Taking advantage of the medium of cinema, Breillat juxtaposes different perspectives to highlight irony found in society.Constable, "Unbecoming Sexual Desires for Women Becoming Sexual Subjects." Life and career Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort. She decided to become a writer and director at the age of twelve after watching Ingmar Bergman's ''Gycklarnas afton'', believing she had found her "fictional body" in Harriet Andersson's character, Anna.Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine She started her career after studying acting at Yves Furet's "Studio d'Entraînement de l'Acteur" in Paris together with her sister, actress Marie-Hélène Breillat (born 2 June 1947) in 1967. At the age of 17, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Television Films
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2007 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2007 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The highest-grossing film of the year was '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'', which was just ahead of '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''. 2007 is often considered one of the greatest years for film in the 21st century. This would also be the last year in which no films grossed at least $1 billion at the box office until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic prevented multiple theatrically released films. Evaluation of the year Many have considered 2007 to be the greatest year for film in the 21st century and one of the greatest of all time. In his article from April 18, 2017, which highlighted the best movies of 2007, critic Mark Allison of ''Den of Geek'' said, "2007 must surely be remembered as one of the finest years in English-language film-making, quite possibly the best of this century s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
