By David Foxley 1/15/08 11:18pm

Teeth-totaling! Actors Celebrate Flick About Needle-y Naughty Bits

Mitchell Lichtenstein’s film Teeth—a black comedy about an adolescent girl coping with vagina dentata—premiered on Monday, Jan. 14, at MoMA’s Celeste Bartos Theater. In the film, Dawn, played by Jess Weixler, tries to suppress her blossoming sexuality in the face of her stepbrother’s overtly wanton behavior.

Recalling her own sexual awakening, Ms. Weixler’s sleepy Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 1/15/08 1:31pm

Love Bites!

The new movie Teeth, which opens this Friday, Jan. 18, couldn’t have been an easy sell. In fact, it’s fun just to imagine the pitch meeting: pretty, young, exceedingly chaste girl discovers she has, in actuality, the mythological condition vagina dentata (that’s toothed vagina, for all you non-Latin-takers). Girl is horrified, not to mention the Read More