Part 2: The Crash
by Saliha Enzenauer / Yokomono
I opened my eyes in confusion. Where was I? Palms and sand and water everywhere. And why was I laying naked in the sand like a stranded mermaid?
The Sex Gourmet – IF… (1968)
#7 Malcolm McDowell & Christine Noonan My fellow Sex Gourmets, today we take a look at Lindsay Anderson’s classic ‘If…’ (1968). Here, we have a rare exemplary of a sex scene managing the impossible limbo between half-way hinted sex and a pure animalistic attack. The semester has just started at one of the renowned grey …
The Sex Gourmet – Don’t Look Now (1973)
#1 Julie Christie & Donald Sutherland There is nothing more satisfying and enjoyable than seeing sex translate well on screen. After watching many actors lock crotches and dance the dance, finding that one scene that stands out above the others is actually quite a hard task! How many times have we seen the classic throw …
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 8 – America First
My righteous dictatorship in Britain was in full bloom: I was an unrelenting, visionary and hard-working empress, I restored law and order, put the British nation back into line, and started a European war in order to kill Steve Bannon, who was working on a world conspiracy here. My vest as the highest military commander …
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 7 – A State Affair
After the Brexit in 2019 the Great British Empire’s citizens had voted for me as their new leader. As first official act I had sent Teresa May and the rest of the parliament into Gulag and replaced them with my relatives and friends. On Christmas Eve’s Teresa was allowed to go out and serve us …
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 6 – Palace Tiger
It was night and I was listening to Mozart’s ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ and dreaming of Vienna. It was my biggest dream to live there one day, an impossible dream… The men with bloomers and sabers arrived at midnight and dragged me out of my parents’ frugal house. I was a poor peasant girl …
The Sex Gourmet – Jackie Brown (1997)
#6 Robert DeNiro and Bridget Fonda Tarantino’s Jackie Brown is my AK-47. Accept no substitutes. Aside from the slickness of the script, the funky unstoppable score throughout, the film just exudes sex and style. There is not much to say about the 10 second sex scene between Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda, but its …
The Sex Gourmet – Damage (1992)
#5 Jeremy Irons & Juliette Binoche Having written four previous pieces on sex scenes which have toasted my loins, the time has come to vent spleen on a film where I have been left both frigid and entertained in the most unexpected way. And, it is with an amused and a slightly annoyed disposition that …
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 5 – Kiss of the Scorpion
It was my third day in the desert. Everything had gone terribly wrong.At the meeting point at the gates of the Sahara there had been a shootout between the ransom extortionists and government officials. The kidnappers dragged me into the jeep and drove into the desert. They cursed incessantly and decided that I was a …
The Sex Gourmet – Angel Heart (1987)
#4 Mickey Rourke & Lisa Bonet Never before has a film captivated me as much as Angel Heart. At an early age I started a polygamous relationship with it, marrying three of my favorite things: Mickey Rourke, the Occult and Chicken. My relationship with the latter is really quite simple, each Sunday a chicken is …