#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 …
Vincent Gallo’s The Brown Bunny (2003): Who Breaks a Butterfly Upon a Wheel?
Some might be surprised that my prime connection to Vincent Gallo is not established via his films, but through his music- since many don’t even know that this man makes music. Gallo’s 2001 album When is in my all-time Top 10, one of the records I always come back to. A very special, intimate and …
The Sex Gourmet – Mulholland Drive (2001)
#9 Naomi Watts & Laura Harring. Mulholland Drive is the gift that keeps on giving. Like most of David Lynch’s non-linear storylines, there is something new to be seen or deduced with each viewing. Long before Black Mirrors ‘Bandersnatch’ got everyone’s panties in a twist, Lynch had been inviting us all to choose our own endings by travelling through …
The Sex Gourmet – The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
#8 Jack Nicholson & Jessica Lange Lana Turner described this remake of James M. Cain’s novel (1931) as ‘pornographic trash‘. Having portrayed the alluring Cora Smith already in Tay Garnett’s 1946 remake of the same novel, she seemed qualified to say this, despite not seeing the remake in completion herself. The novel is steamy and fierce. …
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 …