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Erotic Asphyxiation: Paul Vecchiali’s Recently Restored “The Strangler” Is Horny as Hell
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Erotic Asphyxiation: Paul Vecchiali’s Recently Restored “The Strangler” Is Horny as Hell

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The most shocking part of late French filmmaker Paul Vecchiali’s 1970 giallo The Strangler (L’Étrangleur), newly restored and given its first ever US theatrical release by Altered Innocence, isn’t baby-faced serial killer Émile (Jacques Perrin) pulling an endearingly quaint homemade-looking white knit scarf around the necks of lonely-hearted Parisian women and yanking. It’s his faithful … Continue reading →

Are You Elvis? Are You God?: Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” Slips from Her Childhood Skin
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Are You Elvis? Are You God?: Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” Slips from Her Childhood Skin

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“Are you Elvis? Are you God?” So asks PJ Harvey on her astonishing new album I Inside the Old Year Dying. The song, titled “Lwonesome Tonight” in reference to Presley’s own “Are you Lonesome Tonight?”, sees Harvey sing from the perspective of the album’s protagonist, a “not-girl” named Ira-Abel, as she calls out to the … Continue reading →