Writer, teacher, and performer Susie Bright is a trailblazer in the academic study of pornography and eroticism in mainstream cinema. The sex-positive feminist is the author of the books Susie Bright’s Erotic Screen, Volume 1: 1967–1989 and Big Sex Little Death, as well as the host and producer of the audio show In Bed with Susie Bright. Of the selections below, she writes, “This is my Puberty Top 10 List: the ten Criterion films that shaped my destiny, ages twelve to nineteen.”
Photo by Jason Ganwich
Biography via Criterion.

Gillo Pontecorvo
1966
122 min