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<div>With the major fall movies already on the market and the Christmas-week releases still to come, we've hit a relatively quiet patch on the film calendar. This week's dance card does include a serious-minded drama of urban life, starring Anthony LaPaglia and Isabella Rossellini, as well as a transglobal AIDS omnibus film featuring Lucy Liu and Chloë Sevigny. One of these movies is earnest and competent; the other is totally wacked out.</div><div></div><div></div><div>To the restless mind of the movie-biz maven, this dearth of juicy new morsels can only mean one thing: It's time to think about awards season! Relax, we're still months away from the Oscars or even the Golden Globes, not to mention the various other made-for-TV award spectacles of early 2007, but Film Independent just announced its nominees for this year's Spirit Awards, always a hot topic in Indiewood.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Download Highway Courtesans movie movie</div><div></div><div>Download Zip: https://t.co/ifQSN6hW5s </div><div></div><div></div><div>It's a compact and symmetrical picture with all its plot points in the right places, but I never found it convincing in the slightest. Sebastian Stan has moving moments as Leo's son, and I almost wished the movie was about him (and his would-be ghetto lover, played by Paul James) rather than questing so formulaically for meaning on a larger scale. LaPaglia, an actor of considerable range and gifts, seems dyspeptic and unhappy throughout this role. May he choose better next time.</div><div></div><div></div><div>"3 Needles": People all over the world, contractin' HIV, rapin', killin' and actin' goofy </div><div></div><div> I guess treating a well-intentioned movie about the global AIDS epidemic disrespectfully is already offensive, but there's almost no way I can convey to you the weirdness and unpredictability of Canadian director Thom Fitzgerald's anthology film "3 Needles." I can't even exactly tell you that it's bad. Well, yeah, I can: It's pretty bad. But "3 Needles" is occasionally very effective and sometimes very funny, to go along with the moments where it's clueless or totally alarming.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Here's what we've got: Three not-really-connected seriocomic anecdotes about violence, cruelty, manipulation and criminal misbehavior, all illustrating the insidious ways people spread HIV to each other. In one, Lucy Liu plays an unscrupulous blood-bank operator in rural China, infecting entire villages with dirty needles. She's the heroine of this segment, more or less. She gets raped by soldiers when she's nine months pregnant (in one of the movie's opening scenes).</div><div></div><div></div><div>Then there's a section with Chloë Sevigny, Sandra Oh and Olympia Dukakis as a trio of cute, salty, kinda sexy nuns out of some '50s movie, on a mission in southern Africa. Some of this is played for laughs too, but there's also the dastardly plantation owner with lascivious designs on Sister Chloë and the local superstition that the way to get rid of HIV is to pass it along to a virgin, which in practice means raping little girls. It turns out that the super-well-intentioned doctors who pal around chastely with the nuns have all along been using dirty needles the locals scavenge from the garbage, repackage, and sell them over and over again.</div><div></div><div></div><div>It's impossible not to admire the breadth of vision and ambition at work in "3 Needles." Fitzgerald is unafraid of trying to combine hilarity with horrifying, jaw-dropping tragedy. It sometimes produces moments of unexpected power. 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She follows three young women, the sisters Guddi and Shana and their vivacious neighbor, Sangita, as they grow up into this tradition (officially abhorred but still thriving in practice), turning tricks for truck drivers along the Delhi-Calcutta highway.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Pavan Pool is an enclosed area of Bombay where the city's singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. Crammed tenements house thousands of men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures - and the courtesans themselves, who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing, dancing, and by inference, seduction. 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The movie, to be made for the acclaimed British studio Aardman, will also be co-written by Chadha and husband Paul Mayeda Berges under the banner of their production company Bend It Networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Prostitution was one of the most popular occupations for Renaissance women, whose only other options in most cases were staying with their families or living in a convent. Italian society supported prostitution, and many brothels were regulated by the government. At the end of the 15th Century, cities started to pass laws against prostitution, forcing courtesans to wear specific outfits and separating them from respected society.</div><div></div><div></div><div>According to the Heart, many of the Golden Cat's courtesans come to the brothel from farmlands, enticed by false promises of factory work.[1] Others are given to the Cat by families too poor to feed them, while still others are bastard daughters banished to the brothel.[2]</div><div></div><div></div><div>In contrast to the openness with which the oldest profession was acknowledged in the ancient world, other types of sexuality could be restricted and closely regulated. In Athens, for example, adultery was strictly punishable by law, sometimes in a very gruesome way. In addition, free women were expected to guard their chastity closely until married. This all meant that, if a young, unmarried man wanted to have intercourse, he was faced with a choice between slaves or professional courtesans. In fact, there were even brothels set up by the state as a public good, to deter frisky youths from defiling the flower of the Athenian citizenry.</div><div></div><div></div><div>It was customary in ancient Greece for a worshipper to leave offerings at a temple in order to win the favor of its patron god or goddess. Alongside the statues, cups or locks of hair, one surviving account records that certain wealthy worshippers had dedicated a huge number of courtesans to Aphrodite at her temple in Corinth! Aphrodite was, of course, the goddess of love, and the oldest profession therefore may have been seen as a manifestation of her power.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Of course, the ancient appetite for easy pleasure did not limit itself to female courtesans, but also gave rise to huge demand for boys and young men willing to sell their bodies. Especially in Greece, homosexual relationships were a grey area in which it is difficult for us to draw a clear line between relationships and employment. This is largely due to the socially acceptable practice of pederasty, which involved a pubescent youth attaching himself to an older man for a period of a few years in which the latter acted as both mentor and lover. In Ancient Rome and Greece, there were no labels regarding sexuality and their sexual preferences were much more open and fluid.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Although textual accounts of it have survived in abundance, the most colorful illustration of the ancient pleasure industry undoubtedly come from the extant art that depicts Classical courtesans in all manner of situations.</div><div></div><div></div><div>On the other hand, courtesans were often the object of praise in Roman poetry, particularly in the genre of Latin love elegy. Poets such as Ovid, Tibullus, and Propertius wrote whole bodies of romantic and erotic poetry dedicated to women known only by code-names, which leads scholars to believe that they were not respectable female citizens, but rather escorts, courtesans, or prostitutes. 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