“The Night Porter”: Motives of Exploitation, Representation, & the Theater of Fascism
Released in 1974, The Night Porter is an English-language erotic drama by the Italian director Liliana Cavani, and starring the British actors Dirk Bogarde & Charlotte Rampling. Bogarde plays a lonely night porter, Max, living and working at a hotel in Vienna in the late 1950s. Everything seems rather unremarkable about the day Max is…
“Blue”
Blue by Derek Jarman is a British experimental film from 1993. It stands as Jarman’s last testament as an artist, filmmaker, and human being as his life would be taken by HIV/AIDS mere months after the completion of the project. Having already lost most of his eye-sight to the virus, Jarman began production on Blue…
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