FILM 1988: LOVE POTION NO. 9
TRIVIA: Although the movie is called Love potion #9. The love potion used throughout most of the film is love potion #8
The film grossed $754,935 at the box office.
Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Tuesday, 6 November 2018
Saturday, 23 June 2018
FILM 1791: 9½ WEEKS
FILM 1791: 9½ WEEKS
TRIVIA: Director Adrian Lyne used emotionally manipulative tactics on Kim Basinger during the shooting to elicit the performance he wanted from the somewhat new actress, which Basinger later criticized harshly. For example, Lyne did not allow Mickey Rourke and Basinger to talk to each other off-set. The two were kept isolated from each other and Lyne would tell Basinger rumors about how Rourke intended to make her like or dislike him so that she would carry that attitude into the scene. Lyne would also offer Rourke performance notes, but Basinger none, in order to unnerve her. In a very unusual and expensive move along these lines, Lyne shot the film sequentially, so that Basinger's actual emotional breakdown over time would be effectively translated to the screen.
Body doubles were used for Elizabeth (Kim Basinger) throughout the movie.
Kim Basinger owns 14 hours of deleted scenes that MGM thought were very psychologically damaging to people. The footage has never been made available for public viewing, even in the Director's Cut DVD edition.
Elizabeth wears white or colorful clothing except when she is with John, when she wears black or grey. See also Dial M for Murder (1954).
The two leads ranked #1 on Moviefone's 'The Top 25 Sexiest Movie Couples'. [May 2008]
CAMEO: Ronnie Wood: He appears in the art gallery party scene.
Sunday, 4 February 2018
BOOK 182: SEX CRIMINALS, VOL. 1: ONE WEIRD TRICK: MATT FRACTION & CHIP ZDARSKY
BOOK 182: SEX CRIMINALS, VOL. 1:
ONE WEIRD TRICK: MATT FRACTION & CHIP ZDARSKY
Sex Criminals is an ongoing,
monthly comic book published by American
company Image Comics. It is written by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Chip Zdarsky. The first issue was published September 25, 2013 and
the series received positive reviews.
Sex Criminals was nominated for
two Eisner Awards in 2014 including Best
Continuing Series and won Best New Series. On February 25, 2015, it was
announced that Matt Fraction made a deal with Universal TV to turn Sex
Criminals into a television show.
Critical reception
Time honored Sex Criminals as the #1 comic
series/graphic novel of 2013.
IGN tagged the work as "amazing", and said that the
story is "so addictive, you'll find yourself staring at the last page in
horror when you realize you'll have to wait another month to find out what
happens next".
Paste called the first issue "splendid", with
"an immediately likable character", specifying that although one
"wouldn’t trust most comic creators to turn a sexual awakening into
compelling pulp fiction (...) Fraction and Zdarsky pull it off masterfully.
WhatCulture.com called Sex
Criminals a "masterpiece", with "an adorable cast, virtuoso
writing and stunning art,", and Sciencefiction.com called it
"entertaining", "witty", and "very fun", while
emphasizing that the sexual content is "tastefully presented."
The first compilation, Sex
Criminals: One Weird Trick, was nominated for the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Graphic
Story.
Sunday, 20 November 2016
FILM 1593: SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
TRIVIA: Twentieth Century Fox declined making the film citing that the
leads were too old.
In this movie, Jack
Nicholson plays a notorious bachelor, who always "escaped the
noose", while Diane Keaton
plays a divorcée. In real life it's the other way round: Nicholson is a divorcé
while Keaton is a bachelorette.
First (albeit brief) full frontal nudity scene for Diane Keaton. Although
highly publicized as her first actual nude scene, in fact, she first appeared
topless 26 years earlier in Looking for
Mr. Goodbar (1977).
Nancy Meyers wrote the
roles of Erica and Harry specifically for Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson.
Jack Nicholson turned down
starring in Bad Santa
(2003) to be in this movie.
Sunday, 1 May 2016
BOOK 147: G.: JOHN BERGER
G. is a 1972 novel by John Berger. The novel's
setting is pre-First World
War Europe, and its protagonist, named "G.", is a Don Juan or Casanova-like lover of
women who gradually comes to political consciousness after misadventures across
the continent. The novel, Berger's most formally experimental,
won both the James Tait
Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Booker Prize.
Friday, 13 November 2015
Sunday, 30 August 2015
FILM 1368: THE FALLING
British director Carol Morley’s
follow-up to her breakthrough hit Dreams of a Life is a feverish exploration of
raging hormones and teenage angst set against a brilliantly beguiling backdrop
of a mysterious outbreak of mass-hysterical fainting at an English girls’
school in the late 1960s.
Abbie and Lydia are best of
friends, with a particular intensity that comes with the friendship between
sixteen-year-old girls. Abbie (newcomer Florence Pugh) is the undisputed
leader, full of natural charisma and magnetism. Lydia (Games of Thrones’ best
Bristolian Maisie Williams) is fixated on her friend, having long been
emotionally abandoned by her agoraphobic single mum (Maxine Peake) and a father
she never knew. But when Abbie begins to experiment with boys, including with
her best friend’s magic-obsessed brother, Lydia’s fragile world quickly starts
to unravel. And when first she and then other girls too at the school begin to
faint en-mass, to the consternation of the school authorities, an occult-like
strangeness begins to pervade the lives of all those involved.
Like a British riff on Picnic at
Hanging Rock in its exploration of female friendship (and competition),
burgeoning sexuality, and the supernatural unexplained; this bold head-rush of
a film is confirmation that Morley is fast becoming one of Britain’s most
distinctive and exciting filmmakers. (http://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/6506/the-falling)
TRIVIA: Florence Pugh (Abbie) is a
singer songwriter in real life.
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