No links for Forgotten Friday here today. Check out Todd Mason.
Instead I'm thinking about sex.
I'm taking the easy way out and picking the scene in BODY HEAT where William Hurt circles the house, rabid with desire for Turner, finally getting inside.
Perhaps you have a more obscure or subtle rendering the act.
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The Body Heat scene is definitely a winner for me.
Hmmmmm...does this mean it is---
FORNICATING FRIDAY?
I was never a fan of BODY HEAT. So sue me.
What about DON'T LOOK NOW?
Jeff M.
Kevin, no need to restrict yourself...it could well be Freaky Friday...(for some Jamie Lee Curtis fans among others...)
You can find the FFB links at Sweet Freedom (the current link Patti's posted at this hour misses a scrap of the Blogspot address)...
Catherine Deneuve in Belle de jour.
Best sex scene: Eva Green in the otherwise unwatchable film "The Dreamers."
Sexiest scene I've ever seen: when Katherine Hepburn is drunk and ALMOST kisses Jimmy Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story." I fall for her every time I see that scene.
It is tough to decide...so many factors...and certainly, as with (the indeed terrible) THE DREAMERS for Dan, so many examples where the scene might be the only thing worth remembering (Eva Green does what she can to make that typical Bertolucci pile breathe).
However, I'll suggest that the best film in which the sex scenes are integral that comes to mind at the moment (though BODY HEAT is tough to beat in some ways) is A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE...such as BOUND and, almost despite itself, but a triumph of its cast, HOLY SMOKE...
...are also contenders, but don't better HISTORY...
Don't Look Now is a great choice, and what a great movie. That ending is a stunner.
Don't Look Now is certainly one of the best, but not for the reasons most "sex scenes" are great. But it is phenomenal.
Best ever for the usual reasons--hallway scene in Unfaithful. Full stop.
Best just for everything and one of the most incredible and understated films so few people have scene "Late Marriage" the whole "sex scene". Superb.
HOME and I straightened the link out. I just can't work on that stupid netbook at all.
HISTORY-the scene on the steps hurts in all kins of ways. Dan, I love that you love that scene. You are a romantic.
DON'T LOOK NOW is an amazing movie-ambiance, story, acting, directing.
HOLY SMOKE-with Kate Winslet right?
HOLY SMOKE does indeed feature Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel, who manage to ground the somewhat goofy script. The rest of the cast, including Pam Grier as Keitel's wife and Sophie Lee as Winslet's character's slightly dim but yearning old friend who develops a passionate crush on Keitel's character, are also fine.
The stairwell scene, and the expression of passion, anger, remorse and need it demonstrates, is indeed painful, but made moreso by the rather joyful game-playing of the earlier scene and the subsequent cold face-off when these two very sexual people can't have sex because she can't trust him any longer. There are flaws in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, but it was the best film of its year as far as I was concerned, and its treatment of the characters' sexuality and their expression thus was nearly flawless. You probably couldn't find better actors than Bello and Mortensen for those roles.
Well, I like DON'T LOOK NOW a lot, but everything Nicholas Roeg touches, even when he has Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed on hand as in CASTAWAY (more casting difficult to improve upon in those roles), goes a bit goofy, if breathtakingly well-shot. UNFAITHFUL similarly suffers from Adrian Lyne's similar goofiness (and he's not the cinematographer Roeg is, but few are), but Diane Lane gives a magnificent performance as well as being very pleasant to contemplate...I must go review A WALK ON THE MOON again, to see if it would make my list here, as her encounters in UNFAITHFUL would, too.
Welcome home! Thanks for the link fix...
Relatively non-explicit happy, even ecstatic sex: Margaret Avery and Bruce Davison in THE LATHE OF HEAVEN (1980). (However, too nude for PBS today.)
Drew Barrymore in POISON IVY (and the scene where's she's driving the red 'Vette is cool, too).
Yes, that works. Not a Drew fan, but that scene works.
And just to toss a few other really exemplary (non "this turns me on" sex scenes) there's the incredible sequence of the young man losing his virginity in the Hughes Brother's "Dead Presidents" and for painful, really harrowing scenes von Trier's Anitchrist (and also his The Idiots) as well as much of the film "Kids" are truly brilliant. Nike Leigh is another talent "All or Nothing" and "Naked" just amazing stuff.
And for just straight sexy, there's always "Wild Things" right?
I assume you're not counting X-rated films. The best one I saw was in a French film called A Very Young Girl. No, it isn't kiddie porn.
WILD THINGS is great. lol
In DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE, marketed in English as CEMETERY MAN, a surreal horror film based on the DYLAN DOG comics sequence, Anna Falchi and Rupert Everett are very unfortunately interrupted in mid-coitus, but the scene would be memorable even without the unfortunate result.
And, indeed, Cap'n Bob, there are a number of porn actresses who stick in the memory for me (including at least one, Shu Qi, who has crossed over to non-porn work with such films as SO CLOSE and THE TRANSPORTER with Jason Statham and THREE TIMES, despite the obvious joke potential in those titles), without my ever investing heavily in that field...relatively few first-rate films, however (I've yet to see such landmarks as the I AM CURIOUS: YELLOW and :BLUE duo, though such latter-day Canadian indies as LIE WITH ME, MAELSTROM, SHORTBUS, LOST AND DELIRIOUS and the delightful STARDOM would probably have been in danger of playing only in Mitchell Bros. theaters had they been released in the late '60s somehow).
I hope I was clear. The film I mentioned is not X-rated.
I will look for it if I ever get Netflix again. I am now consigned to library offerings.
i'm going with the first one which comes to mind and that's Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange in The Postman Always Rings Twice. I think it was the way they cleared the table.
That may be the single sexiest scene in a movie.
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