![]() Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and based on his own heavily autobiographical play (a veiled version of the triangular relationship between the director, his lover Günther Kaufmann and his assistant/composer Peer Raben), ‘Bitter Tears’ follows the titular fashion designer ( Margit Cartensen) as she falls deeply in love with the beautiful Karin ( Hanna Schygulla) while tormenting her devoted assistant Marlene ( Irm Hermann). Some of the films listed here are obvious precursors to “Fifty Shades Of Grey,” but “The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant” obviously shares DNA with the recently released “ The Duke Of Burgundy” (which is discussed down the list). “The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant” (1972) The film’s raw pain lingers over forty years on. theater showing the film was threatened with bombing, and Bertolucci was convincted of obscenity charges in Italy, but it was also critically lauded, and received Oscar nominations for Best Director and Actor. The film was banned in some countries, edited severely in others, a U.S. ![]() The film became most famous for the scene in which Paul sodomizes Jeanne with a stick of butter, but it’s Bertolucci’s investigation of a relationship driven by degradation that feels groundbreaking now: Paul iss wallowing in grief after the suicide of his wife, and inflicts his pain on Jeanne, and yet somehow she can’t keep away. ![]() Basd on the Italian director’s own sexual fantasies, it focuses on the tumultous union between American widower Paul ( Marlon Brando) and young Parisian Jeanne ( Maria Schneider), in a deliberately anonymous sexual relationship with few limits in an empty apartment. But it was Bernardo Bertolucci‘s “ Last Tango In Paris,” a film that in its time was talked about easily as much as “Fifty Shades Of Grey” and which had a seismic impact on mainstream culture, that truly brought BDSM culture to the big screen. Once filmmakers were free to portray sexuality more openly from the 1960s onwards, it took a little while for kink to appear in cinemas frequented by audiences other than the raincoat crowd, though films like Mario Bava‘s “ The Whip & The Body” and Luis Bunuel‘s “ Belle De Jour” included some elements as such. If you simply can't wait, the search bar and the "ball gag" tag are your friends!įinally, please note that three of the films featured here- Love Object (2003), The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009), and its remake Reckless (2014)-include so many scenes of interest that we needed two clips to do them justice, though for the sake of variety, only the first clip is on the playlist.Jamie Dornan Knew Critics Would ‘Despise’ ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ While the infamous "gimp" won't appeal to most of our visitors, there's no denying his influence: a bondage accessory which previously had been considered too kinky for mainstream entertainment quite suddenly began to find new popularity with directors who wanted to bring a certain edginess to their work.Īnd today, here we are, with no less than Ariana Grande ball-gagging herself in a comedic cameo from Zoolander 2 (2016), and so many good scenes to choose from that only one of the four we've mentioned so far even made the cut for today's playlist (though all four can be found on the site).įor this first installment, we're focusing exclusively on feature films: TV episodes will be coming around in part two. That movie, of course, was Pulp Fiction (1994). But you could count the relevant scenes on one hand until a certain smash hit came along and changed the whole "ball" game. ![]() The first widely noted damsel to turn up with a ball gag in a mainstream Western film was Teri Weigel in Night Visitor (1989), though Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) may be allowed on a technicality, and Japan's Shiryô no wana/Evil Dead Trap (1988) was likewise ahead of its time. ![]() Not too long ago, that would never have been the case. We know: we've been teasing this one for a while now! Unlike with the more common gag types, where we had so many options that we basically threw up our hands and "subcontracted" to a third-party curator, this time we decided to take complete ownership-but there were still so many fine candidates that it took us a while to get all our clips in a row. ![]()
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