Italian erotica
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Carlo Mollino: Polaroids - by Fulvio Ferrari, Napoleone Ferrari [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Secret museum of erotic art of Pompeii
Ancient Pompeii was full of erotic or pornographic frescoes, symbols, inscriptions, and even household items. The ancient Roman culture of the time was much more sexually permissive than most present-day cultures and apparently had no concept of obscenity or that such art should be hidden from minors.
When the serious excavation of Pompeii began in the 18th century, a clash of the cultures was the result. A fresco on a wall that showed the ancient god of sex and fertility, Priapus with his extremely enlarged penis, was covered with plaster and only rediscovered because of rainfall in 1998. [epd press agency in March, 1998] In 1819, when king Francis I of Naples visited the exhibition at the National Museum with his wife and daughter, he was so embarrassed by the erotic artwork that he decided to have it locked away in a secret cabinet, accessible only to "people of mature age and respected morals." Re-opened, closed, re-opened again and then closed again for nearly 100 years, it was made briefly accessible again at the end of the 1960s (the time of the sexual revolution) and has finally been re-opened in the year 2000. Minors are not allowed entry to the once secret cabinet without a guardian or a written permission. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii [Sept 2004]
Il diavolo in corpo (1986) - Marco Bellocchio
Il diavolo in corpo (1986) - Marco Bellocchio [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
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One of the most controversial Italians films of the 80s, DEVIL IN THE FLESH takes Raymond Radiguet’s classic novel and updates it to modern times. Dealing with the legacy of Italy’s "leaden years" and the aftermath of the social struggles headed by the extreme left wing revolutionary groups, DEVIL IN THE FLESH caused a critical uproar upon it’s release due to its highly-charged political and sexually frank subject matter. Marushka Detmers (THE MAMBO KINGS) stars as Giulia, a young woman engaged to marry Giacomo, her fiancée who’s sitting behind bars because of his political activity. Restless in her appetites and inner turmoil, she meets a young student named Andrea and a passionate affair quickly ensues. But when the day arrives in which she has to face whether she wants to share her life with Giacomo or not, Giulia takes a surprising decision…
Boldly directed by Marco Bellocchio (GOOD MORNING, NIGHT) and featuring superb cinematography by Giuseppe Lanci, DEVIL IN THE FLESH is a powerfully erotic film that deserves to be discovered and appreciated without preconceptions. With it’s mixing of political and sexual issues, Bellocchio retains the strength and relevancy of the classic text and makes a strong contemporary statement in favour of absolute artistic and political freedom. As controversial as films get, DEVIL IN THE FLESH remains one of the most important Italian films of our time.
NoShame Films is proud to present DEVIL IN THE FLESH for the first time on DVD in its original widescreen aspect ratio, digitally re-mastered from the original negative, uncut and uncensored. --via Amazon.com
Il diavolo in corpo (English title: Devil in the Flesh) is an Italian film by Marco Bellocchio, an adaptation of Raymond Radiguet’s novel Le Diable au corps. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_in_the_Flesh [Dec 2005]
Psychopathia Sexualis in Italian Sinema (1968 - 1972)
Psychopathia Sexualis in Italian Sinema [Amazon FR]
Franco the libertine, Ella the nymphomaniac, Gilberto the mad sadist, Sayer the aesthete sadist, Mary the homicidal mantis, Ahmed the debauched, X. the vicious politician, X. the fanatic and moralist judge, Kay the sexually dissatisfied, the mysterious Greta, Diana the arrogant mistress and her black servant Janita, Santino the foot fetichist, the psychopatic Dr. Lyutak, the submissive Marcia, the refined Lesbians Paula and Mudy, Silvia the happy masochist... These are the eccentric characters enliving the incredible stories of this anthology of Italian movies from the so-called Sexual Revolution, featured in the form of “cineromanzo”. Krafft-Ebing’s theories, Sade’s fantasies, Freud’s analyses in a bizarre and entertaining cocktail of “hot” sequences chosen from rare Italian magazines of the ‘70s featuring such film as:
La matriarca / The Libertine (Pasquale Festa Campanile), L’assoluto naturale (Mauro Bolognini), Eros e Thanatos (Jean Bastide aka Marino Girolami), Femina ridens / The Laughing Woman (Piero Schivazappa), Venus in Furs / Paroxismus (Jess Franco), Bella di giorno, moglie di notte / Wife by Night (Nello Rossati), The Lickerish Quartet / Esotika erotika psicotika (Radley Metzger), La verità secondo Satana (Ralph Brown aka Renato Polselli), A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... (Demofilo Fidani), Delirio caldo / Delirium (Ralph Brown), La donna invisibile / The Fantasies of a Sensuous Woman (Paolo Spinola), Top sensation / Seducers (Ottavio Alessi), Scacco alla regina (Pasquale Festa Campanile), Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh / Blade of the Ripper (Sergio Martino)... --http://www.lfvw.com/psychopathia_sexual.html [May 2005]
Incredibly strange movie fantasies from “cineromanzi” 1968-1972
A cura e testo di Stefano Piselli, Riccardo Morrocchi
Edizione brossurata
Formato 24x31 cm. — 104 pagine b/n
Testo italiano e inglese
ISBN 88-8275-047-7
Franco il libertino, Ella la ninfomane, Gilberto
il sadico folle, Sayer il sadico esteta, Mary la mantide omicida, Ahmed
il dissoluto, X. l’onorevole vizioso, X. il pretore fanatico moralista,
l’insoddisfatta Kay e la misteriosa Greta, l’arrogante padrona
Diana e la sua serva nera Yanita, Santino il feticista del piede, lo psicopatico
Dr. Lyutak e la sottomessa Marcia, le lesbiche raffinate Paula e Mudy,
Silvia la masochista felice... Sono questi gli eccentrici personaggi che
animano le incredibili storie di questa antologia di film italiani della
cosiddetta Rivoluzione Sessuale, presentati in forma di cineromanzo. Le
teorie di Krafft-Ebing, le fantasie di Sade, le analisi di Freud in un
bizzarro e divertente cocktail di sequenze “calde” tratte da
rare pubblicazioni italiane degli anni ‘70 relative ai film:
La matriarca (Pasquale Festa Campanile), L’assoluto naturale (Mauro Bolognini), Eros e Thanatos (Jean Bastide alias Marino Girolami), Femina ridens (Piero Schivazappa), Venus in Furs / Paroxismus (Jess Franco), Bella di giorno, moglie di notte (Nello Rossati), Esotika erotika psicotika (Radley Metzger), La verità secondo Satana (Ralph Brown alias Renato Polselli), A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... (Demofilo Fidani), Delirio caldo (Ralph Brown), La donna invisibile (Paolo Spinola), Top sensation (Ottavio Alessi), Scacco alla regina (Pasquale Festa Campanile), Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh (Sergio Martino)... --http://www.glitteringimages.com/bizarresinemaarchives/biar001it.htm [May 2005]
see also: Italian erotica - erotico
Carlo Mollino: Polaroids - by Fulvio Ferrari, Napoleone Ferrari
Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) was one of the most inspired mid-20th-century architects and designers. In a career that spanned more than four decades, Mollino designed buildings, homes, cars, aircraft, women’s fashion, and theater sets. He was a renaissance man who sought to articulate movement and sensuality in his designs. Even more compelling are the magically surreal Polaroid images Mollino made in his Turin studio during the last 14 years of his life, seen here in the first-ever collection of Mollino’s carefully honed erotic photographs of women. From 1,500 works, the Ferraris have culled over 250 representative images in which Molino posed his models in evocative clothing, staged the backdrops, and finally, altered the photos with a microscopic paintbrush to attain his ideal view of the female form. Only a few of Mollino’s Polaroids have ever been viewed by the public.
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