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Charlie's French Cinema Nudity site is updated.
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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
No asterisk: it probably
sucks.
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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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Hungry For You
(1996)
It is 2010. Virtual reality has replaced TV, and
people are far more addicted. The FCC pretty much runs things, with
help from the police, and the traditional courts have been replaced by citizens'
committees which resemble today's juries. VR sex is illegal, except in
Nevada, and you must have the approval of a citizens' committee approval to have
real sex.
People start dying in the middle of VR shows. They receive private
content, in the person of Rochelle Swanson, who gives them cyber-sex
until they are ready to climax, which triggers an explosive charge
in their VR unit and kills them. Michael Phenicie is a licensed
tracer (one who investigates VR crimes), and is brought in to find
out how this is happening and stop it.
I believe the concept had promise. With the VR premise, there is infinite
possibility for misdirection, as it is very difficult to tell the
difference between VR experiences and real ones. The VR theme
provided license to include virtually anything in the story.
Unfortunately, the
execution could have been much better, and the premise could have
been exploited far more effectively. Of course, budget may have been
a limiting factor.
Hungry for You is theoretically a sci-fi riff on the couples erotica
theme, but it's just barely erotica. Rochelle Swanson shows robo-breasts and buns. Two unknowns show
everything during the first sex scene. That's it on the erotic side.
Overall, the sex and nudity are lukewarm at best.
Given that both the storyline and the erotica are disappointing,
this is a D+. Not recommended. (IMDb readers concur at 3.9.)
It is only available from RLDVDs.com in a dual region (1 and 4) DVD in English, with optional
Spanish subtitles.
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Notes and collages
Catwoman
Halle continued, in a lull before tomorrow's
storm of Monster's Ball
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Un día sin sexo (A Day Without Sex)
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The latest film clip to match some of LC's earlier collages (sample to
right). Scoop's note: Just ignore the sample capture. You can see many
excellent collages from this film on the update at Charlie's French Cinema
Nudity. (He refers to it as Le Scorpion, but the collages identify it as
Le Serpent, correctly I presume.) |
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Olga Kurylenko in
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Standing Still
Ah, another "life after college" comedy, and this 2005 version is not
exceptional, but it's cute in spots, and has some very attractive ladies
in it.
Four years after graduating college, a group of close college friends
are getting together again for the wedding of two of the group. They are
bedeviled by all the usual problems: those who haven't hooked up, those
who have hooked up and wonder if they should be hooked up, those who wish
they were hooked up with someone else, etc., etc., etc.
It's cute and fairly well done, but there's nothing really new or
unexpected. Still, it's a pleasant enough way to spend an evening.
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Bit of a range of things. In terms of quality of original source, things go
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from the sublime (high def caps of Rosario Dawson
in Alexander)
to the awful (second generation VHS caps of Diane
Lane in Lady Beware
 
Bonnie Bedelia in The Stranger
and Rachel Ward in Night School
 
Between them are DVD caps of Bethany Lorraine in
Femalien II
and Alejandra Grepi in El Bosque Animado.
The reason for the VHS caps is simple: I am digitizing a lot of videotapes
that have been sitting around on the shelf for a while. These include some rare
treasures, such as Lady Beware and Night School.
Oh, what Night School coulda been if the director had taken advantage of
Rachel Ward's nekkidness. This could have been one of the best nude scenes ever.
Instead, it's a bum, Charlie...let's face it, that's what it is...a bum. Crap.
(Film clip)
A note about an odd similarity in Lady Beware
(film clip) and The
Stranger (film clip).
Both were made in 1987 and each has a scene that is run twice. In The Stranger
it is imagined twice, whereas in Lady Beware it is the bad guy seeing Diane
nekkid and then imagining her so a bit later. What's cool is that in each
case the second time the scene shows up, it is a different take. Ahh, a two-fer.
So I did some editing of the clips to include the two takes together. If all
goes well, there will be more of these yet-to-appear-on-DVD things over the next
several weeks.
And two clips without caps. One of these is rightly considered one of the
high points in screen nudity...Lynda
Carter in Boobi (sic) Jo and the Outlaw. What a mighty fine pair of lungs
Wonder Woman had. On the opposite end of things we got
Karen Black in The Pyx, wearing
a thin white gown.
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The Comedy Wire
Republican Florida state Rep. Bob Allen was arrested in a public park
bathroom sting and charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly offering to sell
oral sex to a male undercover cop for $20. Allen is co-chair of John McCain's
Florida campaign and sponsor of a failed bill to tighten laws against public
sex. Allen called it "an ugly and unpleasant situation that has been thrust on
me and my family," and said he'll plead not guilty. He added, "I am not
resigning my office because the people elected me and want me to do a good job.
I am going to do a good job for them in finishing this term."
* When he gives you a job, he always finishes.
* No wonder McCain's fundraising is down: it's all in increments of $20.
* On the bright side, he could win that "Next Best Thing" TV show with his
George Michael impression.
A researcher from Utrecht University claims that we can largely credit the rise
of literacy to worn-out underwear. In the Middle Ages, peasants became
tradesmen, and since men had to interact with women customers, people started
wearing underwear for the first time. This eventually led to a big supply of
rags from used underwear, which were recycled by papermakers into a cheap
replacement for expensive parchment. So thanks to old underwear, paper for
printing became plentiful and books became affordable.
* But don't even ASK where the term "watermark" came
from.
* This was the perfect medium for printing Jackie Collins novels.
* So out of men's underwear emerged "Moby Dick."
On "Good Morning America," Diane Sawyer revealed what she called "the most
hurtful experience" she'd ever had in a courtroom. She said she was rejected
for jury duty after a judge asked if she could be fair and truthful, "And I
said, 'That's what journalists do.' And
everybody in the courtroom laughed.'"
* Especially the other journalists.
QUOTE OF THE DAY! Kelly Clarkson said when record label boss Clive Davis didn't
like her new album, she told him, "You're 80. You're not supposed to like it"
* It's official: Kelly Clarkson has more balls than
Justin Timberlake.
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