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TV Round-Up
From across the pond: Elise
Beuger did a topless
scene in s3e2 of Divorce
Naked on Stage
Sally
Murphy, was was in her
50s at the time, did a
topless scene in Threepenny
Opera last
spring.
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This week,
the movies come
from the Eastern
Mediterranean.
Today: the Lemon
Popsicle films
from Israel.
Aesthete's
notes:
When
I first saw
the the Lemon
Popsicle
series of
films I
thought they
were a Porky’s
rip off. In
fact, it’s the
other way
round. If you
manage to see
them you’ll be
struck with
the
similarity.
Scoop's
notes:
It's
about time
somebody did a
thorough recap
of these
films! Kudos
to Oz
There was an
American
version of the
first Lemon
Popsicle film.
Boaz Davidson
wrote and
directed both
films from the
same script,
making only
minor
modifications
to relocate
the story from
Israel to the
United States.
The American
version is
called The
Last American
Virgin, and
it's a pretty
good flick,
surprisingly
soulful for a
youthploitation
comedy film
from the
golden age of
that genre
(1982-86)
which also
gave us Risky
Business,
Better off
Dead, Ferris
Beuller's Day
Off, Revenge
of the Nerds,
Porky's, etc.
Aesthete is
correct in
that Lemon
Popsicle
preceded all
of those
films, and
helped to
inspire them.
Boaz
abandoned the
genre after
this series
and has spent
the rest of
his career
writing and
producing
cheap horror
and action
films (he's
still at it).
Lemon Popsicle
1
Ophelia Shtrall
shows the lot in
Lemon Popsicle 1
aka Eskimo Limon
(1978).
Anat Atzmon
and Denise
Bouzaglo are
topless,
and we get a brief
peek into a
changing room.
Lemon Popsicle
2
Not much nudity in
Lemon Popsicle 2
aka Going Steady
(Yotzim Kavua)
(1979). Rachel
Steiner
and Yvonne
Michaels are
topless.
Nurit Maane,
and twins Orit and
Dorit Kroizer look
good.
Lemon Popsicle
3
Lots of nudity in
Lemon Popsicle 3
aka Hot Bubblegum
(Shifshuf Naim)
(1981) by a number
of women:
Sibylle Rauch
Rachel Steiner
Ravit Litman
Orna Dagan
Haya Cohen
Christiane
Schmidtmer
Ariella Rabinovich
and again we have
a peek into a
changing room
Lemon Popsicle
4
Lemon Popsicle 4
aka Private
Popsicle
(Sapiches) (1983)
has Bea Fiedler,
Sonja Martin
topless,
and we have
another peek into
a changing area.
Lemon Popsicle
5
Lemon Popsicle 5
aka Baby Love
(Roman Za'ir)
(1984) has lots of
nakedness by:
Bea Fiedler
Dolly Dollar
Renate Langer
Sabrina Cheval
Stefanie Petsch
and some not
identified
Lemon Popsicle
6
Lots of nudity in
Lemon Popsicle 6
aka Up Your Anchor
(Harimu Ogen)
(1985) by:
Alexandra Kaster
Bea Fiedler,
returning for her
third appearance
in the series
Petra Morze
Sabine Mucha
Sharon Shamir
and some not
identified
Lemon Popsicle
7
Lemon Popsicle 7
aka Young Love aka
Ahava Tzeira
(1987) has plenty
of naked women:
Dana Sharon
Dorit Adi
Eva Astor
Melissa Shank
Sibylle Rauch
Sissi Liebold
Sonja Martin
and a lot not
identified
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I
Origins
(2014)
I
Origins is a drama where
Ian (Michael Pitt), a PHD
student specialising in
eyes, meets a girl at a
party with unique eyes
which he photographs for
his collection/study. Ian
has sex with her, then she
promptly leaves without
ever revealing her name.
He is also trying to prove
once and for all that the
Theory of Evolution is the
correct theory and when
his new lab partner Karen
(Brit Marling) impresses
him with her insight of
his current study, he lets
her see what he is trying
to do. Ian becomes more
fascinated with the girl
with unique eyes which
leads to a series of
coincidence involving the
number 11 that leads him
to a billboard with the
girl's eyes featured on
it. He finds out that the
eyes belong to Sofi
(Astrid Bergès-Frisbey),
who he tracks down and
they fall in love and plan
to get married, but a
tragic accident results in
Sofi's death.
Ian and Karen eventually
fall in love, and 7 years
later they have their
first child. When their
baby has its eyes mapped,
the eyes match that of
another person, which is
immediately scrapped and
redone. Days later, Ian
and Karen are contacted by
a doctor specialising in
autism and that their baby
has shown symptoms of
this. Their child performs
a test where it choose
between two images that
are projected, but
something feels off about
the test, even more so
when the image of the
person that came up in the
mapping appears in the
test. Ian checks this out
further and finds that the
person in the image died
recently. Could it be that
their child was the next
life of this recently dead
man? It's impossible, and
against everything Ian and
Karen believe, but when
they trial the test with
the pictures of eyes that
Ian had taken over the
years, only one match
comes up and that is with
a little girl in India.
And they match with Sofi's
eyes! Ian goes to India to
find the girl and prove
whether or not this girl
is the next life of Sofi.
Interesting premise, which
is to be expected from the
team of Mike Cahill/Brit
Marling, whose previous
film, Another Earth, also
had a fascinating premise.
While I still think that
there is some bullshit to
what is going on here, I
was still fascinated by
what was going on and the
mix of science and
philosophy/spirituality is
far less prevalent in art
in general nowadays. I've
liked both of
Cahill/Marling's films so
far and hopefully they'll
continue coming up with
interesting, debatable
concepts.
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