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  • I was expecting something along the lines of the sex boutique as portrayed in Shortbus, but alas.

    all the small things. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2006

  • But, there is one recent one called The Shortbus, which dealt with people trying to reconnect at the 9-11, via sex, which well .. definitely has sex in it, and people actually having it on camera.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • John Cameron Mitchell - creator of the gender-bending "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and the hard-core "Shortbus" - pulls it off through cinematic sleight of hand, focusing our attention on the less melodramatic elements of his story while setting the stage for last-act revelations.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • Lindsay-Abaire admits that question triggered fast flashes of the over-the-top punk-rock excesses of "Hedwig and the Angry Itch" and the strong sexual content of "Shortbus" - director

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The title refers to a weekly social/artistic/sexual salon in Brooklyn called "Shortbus," hosted by Justin Bond, the inimitable drag performance artist, who plays himself.

    G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011

  • The title refers to a weekly social/artistic/sexual salon in Brooklyn called "Shortbus," hosted by Justin Bond, the inimitable drag performance artist, who plays himself.

    G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011

  • John Cameron Mitchell, last seen here in 2006 with the liberated sexual visions of "Shortbus," has returned with "Rabbit Hole," an adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart.

    Turturro Leads the Yankees Into Canada 2010

  • "Shortbus" also has its actors actually having sex onscreen rather than simulating it, which I found both genuinely shocking and charming.

    You've Got to Get On to Get Off sfmike 2007

  • Both films are explicitly post-9/11 takes on society, survival and sex, with "Children of Men" being a fictional dystopia set in the UK and "Shortbus" a fictional utopia set in Manhattan.

    You've Got to Get On to Get Off sfmike 2007

  • "Shortbus" also has its actors actually having sex onscreen rather than simulating it, which I found both genuinely shocking and charming.

    Archive 2007-04-01 sfmike 2007

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