As kinky as they wanna be: Rush and Winslet

Pop quiz: Politicians who want to censor Internet porn are:

a) hypocrites
b) puritans
c) delusional
d) crying out for discipline

If you answered d), I've got something for you.... psst... come a little closer. Of course you've seen Quills by now, the wicked Philip Kaufman movie starring Geoffry Rush as the Marquis de Sade. (If you haven't, read my review and then find the next theater.) It's a fiendish, gleeful romp through the pleasure and pain of being a locked-up madman that turns into a treatise on artistic freedom and the evils of censorship.

Well, how ironic.

Join the Discussion Beautiful and Gruesome "I wasn't quite prepared for all the gore. Glad I had a scarf to duck under at critical moments." Annettenberg Sexiest Philip Kaufman Movie Henry & June and Unbearalbe Lightness weren't bad, either. Vote here The Eros of Necrophilia "I like the scene in "House of the Spirits" best because it appears to me like the most realistic one, in the sense that it's not too extreme and you can actually identify with the young mortician." Eros1973

Related Resources • Quills Review • Kate Winslet

Elsewhere on the Web • IFILM Article • Original Quills Site

Click on the Marquis' bed to find out sexy tidbits such as the first known usage of the Spanish Fly, find a collection of Bible/sex sites, quotes from the Marquis, a multiple choice test to find out what kind of deviant you are, and (especially entertaining, if this is your cup of excrement) a community smut writing project.

Funny -- I probably wouldn't have looked twice at this site if it hadn't been taken down. It's entertaining in an office-break sort of way, though. In the spirit of the Marquis, let's just hope that this was a shrewd marketing move to revive interest in the film and not a knee-jerk reaction to somebody's misguided idea of enforced morality.