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Cinema Nudity is updated with Issue 10
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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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Wife to Be Sacrificed
(1974)
"Ikenie fujin" is a Nikkatsu Roman Porno
directed by Masaru Konuma, the fourth such film released in the USA this
month. This one stars Naomi Tani as a flower arranging teacher whose husband ran
off three years earlier after being accused of child molesting. He returns,
kidnaps her, and subjects her to bondage, discipline and degradation, which she
ends up responding to positively, after fighting him at first. She escapes once,
only to be raped by two hunters. We see that hubby does have genuine concern as
he washes and soothes her after the rape. Then hubby finds two lovers who have
attempted a double suicide. He captures them and toys with them for a while, all
of which leads to the surprise ending.
This film was hugely popular in Japan, presumably due to the
fetish content, and its 7.1 is the highest IMDb rating of the four recent releases
(Wife to Be Sacrificed, Tattooed Flower Vase, Cloistered Nun: Runa's
Confession and Erotic Diary of an Office Lady). Of the four, Tattooed Flower Vase
is my favorite, but this is an excellent film in its own right, especially if the
fetish content is your cup of tea.
I am hoping that we
will see more of the Pinku films, especially Roman Pornos and Pinky Violence,
coming to American DVDs soon.
Naomi Tani and Terumi Azuma show breasts and buns, and are frequently tied up
and tortured with candles, hot wax, whips, enemas, etc.
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Notes and collages
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Part 8 of 13
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Film clips
| Kelly Reilly in
Joe's Palace (samples right) |
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Joanna Page in
Love Actually |
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Daria
Halprin (et al) in Zabriskie Point |
| Although, or perhaps because, it
was directed by Antonioni, Zabriskie Point is often listed on
"all-time worst" lists. And with good reason.
Antonioni spent two years filming it, mostly in Death
Valley, and his penchant for non-linear filmmaking really got
away from him. Antonioni was the type of guy who worked
without a script, didn't remember what he shot yesterday, and
had no idea what he would shoot tomorrow, so you can imagine
the continuity problems involved in stitching together footage
shot over two years. One of the director's primary themes was
the failure of communication, and you had to admire the
dedication he made to reinforcing that point by his own
consistent failure to communicate anything coherent, either in
the film or in his interviews.
To make matters worse, he hired two performers who had
never acted before, and it showed. The male star, high school
drop-out Mark Frechette, was hired on the spot when
Antonioni's casting scouts found him ranting wildly at a bus
stop. "He's twenty and he hates" was their lucid explanation.
Frechette was a member of a Manson-like cult. After his brief
film career he returned to the things he loved best, like
armed robbery. In theory, the bank robbery he committed was
supposed to be some kind of political statement against
capitalism. Of course, these guys were not exactly criminal
masterminds. One of his co-conspirators was killed in the
hold-up attempt, and Frechette himself spent the rest of his
short life in prison. He was dead before his 28th birthday.
The film's problems continued into post-production. In the
process of scoring the film, Antonioni had the rare privilege
of being one of the few film directors to get his ass kicked
by a musician working on his film, in this case the guitarist
Jeff Fahey, who got tired of Antonioni's bullshit and flat-out
decked him.
The film was a massive box office dud. Compared to
Antonioni's Blow-Up, this film cost six times as much and took
in less than 5% as much. It was one of the biggest financial
disasters in history up to that point.
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| Trine Dyrholm
in Bungalow High (right) |
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Franka Potente in Romulus, My Father (right) |
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Sonia Braga in Gabriela |
| Winona Ryder in The
Ten (right. No nudity.) |
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| I tried to watch The Ten. It is a
comedy in ten separate sketches, one about each of the ten
commandments. It's totally unwatchable, which probably
explains why you never heard of it despite some big names in
the cast. Imagine one of those sketches on Saturday Night Live
where it becomes apparent in 30 seconds that it just isn't
working, but it is scheduled to last four minutes and it's
live TV, so there's no way to escape from it. Well, picture
the ten worst SNL sketches of all time stitched together with
a lame framing device. That's this movie. The funniest idea
the writers came up with was to star Winona Ryder in the
segment about "That Shalt Not Steal." In addition to the irony
of the concept, this scene is probably the funniest thing in
the film. |
| Mimi Moss in
Consignment (right) |
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| Unknown in
Consignment (right) |
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| Kelsey Barney
in Consignment (right) |
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Related to the above, here is
Kelsey from the Consignment DVD special features
And here she is in Left in
Darkness
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The Comedy Wire
The Bergdorf Goodman store in New York is offering a $62,000 lipstick by the
French cosmetics maker Guerlain. For that price, you get a meeting with
Guerlain's artistic director, who oversees the creation of a personal shade just
for you, in a gold tube encrusted with rubies, emeralds and 199 "conflict-free"
diamonds. It costs more than a 2008 Hummer.
* It Had Better Help You GIVE Incredible Hummers
Britain's News of the World reports that a controversial new product
was unveiled at London's Erotica Show. It's the Rabbit Travel Vibe, a travel
vibrator that plugs into car cigarette lighters. Maker Top Cat put free samples
in the VIP bags. They claim it delivers 12 volts of "pure vibrating ecstasy"
and "complete satisfaction on the move." But that idea infuriated the Royal
Auto Club. A spokeswoman said the sex toy could prove a lethal distraction and
urged motorists, "Don't use it while driving."
* It's especially dangerous to combine it with a Hummer.
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