Love Is A Hurting Thing: Six Films About S/M

This February, Spectacle presents five recently restored films (four features and one short, four narratives and one doc) exploring sadomasochism and dominance and submission. All controversial in their own time—with L.A. PLAYS ITSELF and MOUSE KLUB KONFIDENTIAL, and going so far as to incite protests and riots upon their initial releases—these five films hold up for their fearless, and, yes, very erotic, probings into the outer reaches of sexuality.