by Thersa Wiltz
This is compelling television to be sure–after all, we’re talking about sex: hippies cavorting in the altogether. Women’s libbers brandishing their bras. Playboy bunnies and Hugh Hefner. Helen Gurley Brown and Burt Reynolds’s naked centerfold. Suburban swingers. Jaybird-naked couples shedding what remains of their inhibitions at the infamous Plato’s Retreat. Drag queens and [...]
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Lady Jaws: Mitchell Lichtenstein’s "Teeth" (IndieWire)
Posted in mitchelllichtenstein, movies, pussy, sundance, women on Jan 28th, 2007
During the course of its premiere Sundance screening, in countless psychiatrist offices everywhere, there are people describing their fear of vaginal dentata, the belief that women have sharp teeth lining their vagina. I can’t say with certainty if anyone with that fear was sitting in the audience watching actor-turned-filmmaker Mitchell Lichtenstein’s “Teeth,” a silly, splatter [...]