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Dancing in the Movies: Tail-feathers Shaken from Singing in the Rain to Dogtooth by David Dastmalchian

By Yasmina Tawil

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From the first moment I saw Gene Kellys dress shoes splashing through the puddles on that marvelous cutout MGM set to the skintight cat suit gyrations of Olivia Newton Johns hips while she belted Youre the One That I Want, I have personally been a fetishistic slave to the power of bodies in motion on film. When I was a kid, I was captivated by the way that Gene Wilder rolled from geriatric frailty...

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Dancing in the Movies: Tail-feathers Shaken from “Singing in the Rain” to “Dogtooth” by David Dastmalchian

By Yasmina Tawil

image

From the first moment I saw Gene Kelly’s dress shoes splashing through the puddles on that marvelous cutout MGM set to the skintight cat suit gyrations of Olivia Newton John’s hips while she belted “You’re the One That I Want,” I have personally been a fetishistic slave to the power of bodies in motion on film. When I was a kid, I was captivated by the way that Gene Wilder rolled from geriatric...

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