Strange Pleasures
Strange Pleasures: Sin City (Halloween Edition)
Strange Pleasures is a regular Metrograph column in which writer Beatrice Loayza shares unconventional desires found across underground and mainstream cinema alike.
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Essay
Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto
REMEMBERING RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Often listing French composer Claude Debussy and German electronic band Kraftwerk as his two biggest influences, the late Ryuichi Sakamoto forged a career that made him a worthy successor to each. After gaining fame in the late ’70s as a member of pioneering electronic music trio Yellow Music Orchestra, Sakamoto began scoring…
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Essay
Woman Trouble: On the Films of Brian De Palma and Nancy Allen
It is in Allen’s performances that we see the trickiness of De Palma’s play with gender and sex in full, fulsome flower. She is in fact his greatest envoy in the sex wars. She embodies all his work’s contradictions and somehow renders them glorious, delectable, meaningful.
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