Many years ago, my good friend Jonathan Devenish and I dragged ourselves off to see Andrei Rublev at the now-defunct Lumiere Cinema. Continue reading
Archive for Birth of Venus
Icons: Part I
Posted in Film, Journalism, Observation with tags Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, Birth of Venus, Botticelli, Dante, Inferno, Ivan's Childhood, Lumiere Cinema, Museo Del Prado, Pasolini, Primavera, Salo, Uffizi on December 24, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
In Defence of Pornography
Posted in Pornography with tags Birth of Venus, Chloe, e.e. cummings, Feminism, First Time Videos, Gail Dines, Karen Pini, Martin Grimwood, Penthouse Magazine, Playboy Magazine, The Age Newspaper on June 8, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
“There is no place for pornography in a just society.”
– Gail Dines, ‘How the Hardcore Porn Industry is Ruining Young Men’s Lives’, as published in The Age, May 18, 2011.
“Those magazines, they aren’t about sex. They’re about beauty.”
– Martin Grimwood, in reference to my collection of Penthouse Magazines, published circa 1970. Continue reading
