September draws to a close, and we find ourselves on the precipice of what leading meteorologists and cultural institutions alike refer to as\u2026\u00a0spooky season.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In more clinical terms: expect to get the willies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n That all said, while Titane<\/a> <\/em>has been dubbed \u201cthe most shocking film of 2021,<\/em>\u201d Ducournau is no mere shock jockey. Her 2016 cannibal-coming-of-age tale, Raw,<\/em> is an excellent indicator of her bold approach to spinning ultimately tender stories. Every repulsion mirrored on screen is an act of endearment, after all. So, as I\u2019ve taken a blood oath to divulge as little about Titane<\/a>\u2019s plot as possible, trust me that this fiery automobile-ad-human<\/em> mystery also manages to be one of the more sincerely heartwarming tributes to parenting and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Friends, September draws to a close, and we find ourselves on the precipice of what leading meteorologists and cultural institutions alike refer to as\u2026\u00a0spooky season. The temperatures finally drop, darkness catches up with us earlier everyday, and Ragtag\u2019s showtimes run later into the night. With these natural phenomena come films a bit more\u2026\u00a0wicked.\u00a0Chief among them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[104,105,106,107,108],"class_list":["post-10574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news1","tag-body-horror","tag-ducournau","tag-horror","tag-julia-ducournau","tag-titane"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The temperatures finally drop, darkness catches up with us earlier everyday, and Ragtag\u2019s showtimes run later into the night. With these natural phenomena come films a bit more\u2026\u00a0wicked.<\/em>\u00a0Chief among them this year is Julia Ducournau\u2019s\u00a0Titane<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or winner at Cannes marks not just the second-ever win for a female director (Jane Campion took the first in 1993 for The Piano)<\/em>, but also the first body-horror<\/em> to take one of cinema\u2019s most distinct honors.
So, for the uninitiated, what is body-horror? Somewhere between the Gothic literature of Mary Shelley\u2019s novel Frankenstein <\/em>and Crononberg\u2019s The Fly<\/em>, critic Philip Brophy casually coined the term in 1983. Film scholar Linda Williams defined it precisely; mapping it on a continuum of what she calls \u201cexcess\u201d\u2014the degree to which audience sensations mimic what is seen on screen\u2014alongside pornography and classical melodrama. Melodramas mirror sympathy, pornography arousal, but body-horror<\/em> grants the visceral loss of control of our own bodies\u2014pushing their limits, their transformative capabilities, and their violent distortions.
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The season continues with Lamb<\/a> opening next week, and special engagements of David Lynch\u2019s Blue Velvet<\/a> and Andrzej ?u?awski's Possession<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stay weird,Ted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"