Women in Love (1969)

fellas is it gay to climax while wrestling naked with your best friend

phoebe 💫

Truly so obvious yet so stunningly effective how every scene between a man and a woman (save, of course, Gudrun and the explicitly gay artist. Or the final scene in its abrupt ending) is so steeped in pretense and tradition and heteronormativity and gendered roles and…

Chris 🍉

Oliver Reed is built like a damn refrigerator

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“It’s strange that people can’t reconcile vulgarity and artistry,” Ken Russell told his biographer John Baxter. “They’re the same thing to me. By vulgarity I mean an exuberant, over-the-top, larger-than-life, slightly bad taste, red-blooded but ultimately human thing. And…

Joe Talbot

sometimes women aren’t enough and you have to find real connection in your naked wrestling buddy

Jay

“why are you behaving in this impossible and ridiculous fashion?” “you make me behave like this. don’t be angry with me” “no, i’m not angry with you. i’m in love with you”how we give love, where we learn it, and where we choose to place it, that’s the thread running beneath…

amanistar

Glenda Jackson performing an interpretive dance before a pack of bulls is cinema

Merkin Muffley

Russell brings his inventive cinematic language to Lawrence’s tale of psychosexual desire, class and cultural decay (and its subsequent renewal) with a deftly poetic touch and unconventional storytelling style. Impressionistic compositions and terrific performances elevate…

Jerry

Sexual tension, industrial tension, class tension! Perversity! The natural world and modernity at odds! I love this so!

Chris Feil