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Sex in Movies: narrative interruptus

Posted on August 10, 2016July 20, 2019 by Kenneth George Godwin
Michael feels a crushing weight of sadness in Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's Anomalisa (2015)

Sex runs through the history of the movies as both spectacle and disrupter of narrative; Russ Meyer reveled in it, while Charlie Kaufman finds in sex poignant emotional depths.

The pleasures of transgression

Posted on June 8, 2016November 18, 2020 by Kenneth George Godwin
Ewa Aulin on display in coy good taste in Christian Marquand's Candy (1968)

Two recent disks present transgressive sexuality from very different perspectives: Christian Marquand’s Candy is a glossy big budget production packed with star power, while Curt McDowell’s Thundercrack! is a scrappy underground epic.

The Lure of Paradise

Posted on January 15, 2014March 26, 2016 by Kenneth George Godwin

If I had watched Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy a few weeks earlier, these three films would have made it into my year-end post as one of 2013’s highlights. I first encountered Seidl’s work (the documentary Animal Love and drama Dog Days) around the same time I came across Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher and Time […] Read More

George Godwin, Filmmaker
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Kenneth George Godwin, Film Editor
I have been editing a wide range of film and video projects, both documentary and drama, for two-and-a-half decades. I started at the Winnipeg Film Group, cutting on Steenbeck 16mm flatbeds, adopted Avid in 1995, and have used FinalCut Pro quite extensively over the past ten years. Projects I have worked on have screened – and won awards – at festivals around the world.read more >>

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