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Wednesday
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I think the
best find in this week's new releases was
Amy Brenneman in "Your Friends and
Neighbors". The scene was so dark I
was tempted to simply ignore it, but
after all it is Brenneman and she is
showing us her crotch, so I figured
"screw the sharpness", and
brightened it until we could see the good
stuff
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one more of
Brenneman. Her large breast enters the
picture this time.
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If you want
to do your own editing, here are the two
raw vidcaps of Brenneman. Non-imaging
surfers: don't bother to look. They're
too dark. Do not be tempted to watch this
awful, talky movie. If you rent it, this
scene occurs at the very end.
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One more raw
vidcap.
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"The Tin
Drum" is a beautiful movie. Gunter
Grass was recently awarded a Nobel Prize,
which gives you a pretty good idea of the
strength and compassion of his work. I
can't measure greatness in any
non-English language, but I enjoyed his
writing so much that I actually read one
of his books in German when I lived in
Austria, and that really represented a
major time commitment for me with my slow
German reading and the size of his books.
This is Angela Winkler
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One more of
Angela Winkler.
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... also from
"The Tin Drum": Katharina
Thalbach.
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Gabriella
Pession in "Fernando e
Carolina". A Lina Wertmuller film.
What more do you need to know?
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Maria Ford in
"The Key to Sex".
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Nina Hoss in
"A Girl Called Rosemarie".
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Emily Watson
in "Metroland".
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Lauren Hays
and Gwen Somers in "Life of a
Gigolo"
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Jeannie
Pepper in "Candida Royalle's Eyes of
Desire: Part 2".
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Kate Winslet
in "Hideous Kinky"
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Caroline
Ducey in"Romance".
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Gwyneth
Paltrow in "Hard Eight". Good
movie from the Tarantino School, but no
nudity at all. These are portraits.
Gwyneth played out of type as a moronic
hooker.
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Melanie
Griffith in "Lolita".
(non-nude). Melanie is still too
beautiful and sexy to be playing the
elder Haze. Shelley Winters played it in
the Kubrick version.
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Dominique
Swain in "Lolita". (non-nude).
Adrian Lyne is a great filmmaker, and
this is a good movie. I had one great
reservation about it. Nabokov has a
wicked sense of humor, and a sense of
verbal pyrotechnics. He's one of the
greatest writers of the 2Oth century, and
a true genius because English is his
third language. While Adrian Lyne catches
the melancholy and the romance of the
story beautifully, Lyne seems to have no
sense of humor at all, and that restricts
the accuracy of the interpretation.
Still, Lolita is a complex book with many
levels, and a movie can only do so much.
What Lyne did do is tremendous. Jeremy
Irons gave an anguished and sensitive
portrayal as Hubert, and Swain played the
Nymphet well. Melanie did a good job in
her part, despite looking too good for
the role. The big disappointment was the
decidedly unfunny Frank Langella as Clare
Quilty, who is turned into a gargoyle in
this version.
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Dominique
Swain in "Lolita". (non-nude)
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Dawn Mauer
(Swain's body double) in
"Lolita".
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anonymous
stripper in "A Little Harmless
Sex". What a waste. Not only is it a
crappy movie, but both Rachel Hunter and
Alison Eastwood stay dressed throughout.
They both looked great, however.
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a different
anonymous stripper in "A Little
Harmless Sex".
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Mary-Louise
Parker in "goodbye lover". A
lame movie, but much better than either
"Friends and Neighbors" or
"Harmless Sex". At least it had
some kinky imagination and a few plot
twists, and I liked bits of it.
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Not new, but
here are four of Embeth Davidtz in
"The Gingerbread Man", as I
promised. I did my best, but the lighting
was just too weird.
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Davidtz.
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Davidtz.
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Davidtz.
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on other new releases. No nudity, or we'll wait
for ....
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"SLC
Punk" - no nudity. Really odd movie.
Imagine "Trainspotting"
transposed from the lower classes in
Scotland to the upper middle class
suburbs of Salt Lake City. Sound
eccentric? You bet.
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Goodbye
Lover. Only the one briefly-exposed
nipple from Mary-Louise Parker, but lots
of cleavage and tight skirts from
Patricia Arquette. She looked so good
that I decided to hunt for the DVD to get
better images.
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"10
Things I Hate ....". I skipped it.
Rated pg-13. I'll take a brief glance at
it tomorrow if I can.
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"Carrie
2". This one arrived late at the vid
shops. I'll look at it tomorrow if I can.
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