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2 articles from 2009

22 July 2009 3:30 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »

Virginity! It's a topic that Hollywood and cinema love to pursue. Writers and directors love to push boundaries and create remarkable, sometimes real, sometimes ridiculous situations concerned with what happens when someone does (or doesn't) give up their 'most precious gift' (i.e., having sex for the first time). While films concerned with boys' sexuality tend to err on the side of raunchy comedies - Losin' It, Risky Business, American Pie - movies concerned with the virginity of young women run an interesting gamut. We chose a grab bag of films for this week, concerned with virginity and its relationship to power, religion, and madness. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Splendor in the Grass, Elizabeth, The Virgin Suicides, and The Magdalene Sisters would all pair nicely with Deborah Kampmeier's Virgin (2003), starring Elisabeth Moss (who is currently best-known as Peggy Olson on Mad Men). And it must be noted, we're leaving out horror films, »

30 June 2009 3:30 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »

Virginity! It's a topic that Hollywood and cinema love to pursue. Writers and directors love to push boundaries and create remarkable, sometimes real, sometimes ridiculous situations concerned with what happens when someone does (or doesn't) give up their 'most precious gitft.' (I.E., having sex for the first time.) While films concerned with boys' sexuality tend to err on the side of raunchy comedies - Losin' It, Risky Business, American Pie - movies concerned with the virginity of young women run an interesting gamut. We chose a grab bag of films for this week, concerned with virginity and its relationship to power, religion, and madness. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Splendor in the Grass, Elizabeth, The Virgin Suicides, and The Magdalene Sisters would all pair nicely with Deborah Kampmeier's Virgin (2003), starring Elisabeth Moss (who is currently best-known as Peggy Olson on Mad Men). And it must be noted, »

2 articles from 2009