BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so

Subject: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 01:42 AM

Disclaimer: I used the asterisk in the title to try to avoid the stupid spammers who hit certain threads with suggestive titles. There is a lot to be suggested by this list, but it would be nice to carry on a discussion without GUEST:qwertyuiop dropping in salacious urls.

I don't get the IFC, but I read about the list when it was posted to another forum. Lots of sex scenes, straight and gay on this list. But what about the films as a whole? If the film isn't a good one I find the sex isn't nearly so interesting. I transcribed the list because they broke it down into a bunch of different web pages to see all of them. I haven't seen more than a handful of the films, and some of them I agree with. And I added a few to my Netflix list. :)

Start reading the article and find links to the list pages here.

1. Don't Look Now (1973)
2. A History of Violence (2005)
3. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
4. Risky Business (1983)
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
6. Betty Blue (1985)
7. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
8. Secretary (2002)
9. The Big Easy (1987)
10. Young Frankenstein (1974)
11. Ecstasy (1933)
12. The Night Porter (1974)
13. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
14. Team America: World Police (2004)
15. Get Carter (1971)
16. Coming Home (1978)
17. Body Heat (1982)
18. Unfaithful (2002)
19. Sex and Lucia (2002)
20. Bound (1996)
21. The Kiss (1896 - not a typo!)
22. The Wayward Cloud (2005)
23. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
24. The Cooler (2003)
25. Female Trouble (1974)
26. Out of Sight (1998)
27. Boys Don't Cry (1999)
28. Henry and June (1990)
29. 9 Songs (2004)
31. Storytelling (2001)
30. Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
32. Being John Malkovich (1999)
33. The Last Seduction (1994)
34. The End of the Affair (1999)
35. Network (1976)
36. Boogie Nights (1997)
37. Shaft (1971)
38. Shortbus (2006)
39. The Piano (1993)
40. The Lover (1992)
41. High Fidelity (2000)
42. High Art (1998)
43. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
44. Poison (1991)
45. Breaking the Waves (1996)
46. Sex Lies and Videotape (1987)
47. The Dreamers (2003)
48. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2007)
49. Laurel Canyon (2002)
50. Ken Park (2002)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 02:12 AM

Blimey - I've been watching entirely the wrong sort of film... I've only seen 5 of those listed above!

Of that five, the funniest s&x scene has to be 'Young Frankenstein'... "Oh, sweet mystery of life, I think I've found you!!" You can't imagine the hilarity caused by me quoting that line to someone else who had seen the film... made for some fantastic nights I can tell you! (actually I can't, this is a family site...)

Otherwise, the remaining 4 were fairly mediocre - I don't even remember the scene in 'The Piano'... and as for 'Don't look now', despite it being one of my favourite films, I can't get over how thin and weedy Donald Sutherland looks without his clothes on. I think it's the big hair that makes it disproportionate.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 02:34 AM

Liz, I thought so also about Young Frankenstein!

Of those on the list, when I first saw it I thought Body Heat was certainly the steamiest, but I thought Coming Home by far the most sensual.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 02:39 AM

I'm surprised 'Ghost' isn't in there - that had one of the steamiest sex and pottery scenes ever.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: alison
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 03:21 AM

they missed a beauty .............
where is "the name of the rose"? - where Christian Slater is molested in the kitchen

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 03:42 AM

Ah yes... a glimpse of willy made it into an 18 rating and the poor boy couldn't attend his own premier because he was only 17!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: autolycus
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 03:49 AM

just a slight thread drift, but my favourite love story of all time is Heifits's The Lady with the Little Dog (1960) from Russia. and it has NO sex scenes.

Works for me.





       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 04:03 AM

Now let's see the KFC list.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Pilgrim
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 08:56 AM

The KFC list would have to include the sex scene in Nick Park's Chicken Run. Very tasteful, all implied....

Talking of implied sex scenes, that must be what they are reffering to in High Fidelity, as I do not remember any overt steaminess.

Pilgrim

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 10:17 AM

Well I've only seen seven on the list and the only sex scene I really remember is in The Piano which I thought was very erotic, but that was because of Harvey Keitel!

I am surprised not to see Like Water for Chocolate for its sensuousness, if nothing else....there was sex in it, right?**bg**

Agree on Ghost, too!

Also, why didn't they include The Crying Game?

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Becca72
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 11:34 AM

I've only seen 2 of those films..sheesh.

what about 9 1/2 Weeks? sex is basically the whole movie...

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 11:39 AM

Ha! I also have seen only 2 of them. The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the thread title was "Body Heat", and it is there of course...it took # 17. It remains one of my favorite films to this day.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Wesley S
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 11:44 AM

I've seen 18 of the movies on the list. How many do you need to see before you're officially considered a perv?

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 12:40 PM

At least 1/3 of them, I'd say.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 12:45 PM

I'd have thought that here on the Mudcat "S*x Scenes" would be about saxophones.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Micca
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 01:47 PM

Kevin, I've never seen somone have s*x with a saxophone!!

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Wesley S
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 02:19 PM

You havn't seen the Bill Clinton movie?

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 02:59 PM

There was a wild one in "Angel Heart"

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 05:26 PM

I've seen about 1/3 of the films on the list and regard them all as very good movies. I don't even remember the s*x scenes in some of them. I can think of a number of films with pretty steamy s*x scenes which aren't on the list, but they really aren't very good movies. "9&1/2 Weeks", "Angel Heart", "Wild Orchid", and the remake of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" come to mind. Conspicuously absent is "Monster's Ball".

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: John Hardly
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 06:05 PM

The pottery scene? I guarantee that they showered first. Or between. Whatever.

And we have that scene to thank for condemning us to the eternal hell of having to hear "Unchained Melody" for the rest of our lives.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 06:31 PM

There is a subtle sleeper of a film called Firelight that has some of the most sensual sex I've seen in a film in a long time. You can't get the wide screen version these days or you'd see a little more of Stephen Dillane and Sophie Marceau.

Sophie made another one, Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours (My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days) that was filled with nudity and sex, but was so avant garde that it wasn't enough to keep me watching it, I had to fast forward to see where it was going. And when it got there, I didn't go back to watch it at normal speed.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 06:47 PM

At least they went with a decent version of 'Unchained malady'... could have had the Jimmy Young or Robson and Jeromw version and then where would we be?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 07:47 PM

The only one I thought of ahead of time - both the only one I thought of, and the one I thought of ahead of time - was Betty Blue (37.2 le Matin in v.o.) - which was amazing.
So was the peeling of the orange in that movie that wasn't Kentucky Fried Movie but was very like it. But since that wasn't actually sex - you just thought it was for the longest time - I guess technically it doesn't count.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 08:09 PM

The one movie that comes (no pun intended) into my head (also no pun intended) was one that Bee-zer mentioned, "The Postman Always Knocks Twice"... ( I don't think it was "...Rings Twice" but it might have been...)...

Anyway, the scene is with Jack Nicolson and Jessica Lange and it is pure unalterated "sex"... No "love making" here... Just sex... But a darned good movie, as well...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 08:11 PM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the scene in the film Tom Jones where our hero (Albert Finney) has a meal in an inn with a young lady. It's all in the mind...

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Cluin
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 08:16 PM

alison is correct. For pure mammalian copulation, "The Name of the Rose" has one of the best s*x scenes ever filmed, either inside or outside of a porno flick.

(pornos are too graphic anyway)

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 08:17 PM

That postman rings twice, Bobert, but considering the subject matter, I guess "knocks" works. . .

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 08:21 PM

I apologize for mis-stating the film title, Maggie. Now stop calling me "Bobert".

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 08:44 PM

Bobert had it wrong, not BWL. The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Porn is a completely different subject, in which it is more likely that the sex drives the story than the story drives the sex. Did anyone ever see Last Tango in Paris? Would it still get an X rating today?

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 08:45 PM

But they didn't include the sex-in-the-swimming pool scene from "Chorus Girls". (I actually paid to see that movie; has there ever been a dumber, less credible, sex scene?)

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 11:07 PM

About five years ago there was a little-noted movie called Enemy at the Gate which depicted a drawn-out duel between a German Sniper and a Russian Sniper in Stalingrad during WW2. I really enjoyed the stark setting of the film, and there was a terrific sex scene where the Russian sniper and his lady love are sleeping in a vast ruined building along with several hundred of their comrades. Their cuddling escalates into lovemaking as, trying not to wake their fellow soldiers, they grope and struggle out of enough of their uniforms to achieve the necessary degree of nudity to complete the act. Very urgent and real, and not glamorous...but very, very hot.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 11:15 PM

Yes, that was quite a realistic scene. She was a sniper too, besides being his lady love. The Russians had a large number of women serving as combat soldiers in the "Great Patriotic War" as they called it. It was a total national effort, and the female soldiers, sailors, and pilots fought valorously...as some did also in Spain for the Republican forces.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: astro
Date: 23 Aug 07 - 12:24 AM

Gosh, I'm going to become a film buff again....

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 07 - 11:19 AM

A film buff in the buff? A buff of films with buff buff?

What a dexterous little word!

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: autolycus
Date: 27 Aug 07 - 12:58 PM

btw, astro, are you, like me, into astro?





      Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 09:57 AM

astro?

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 11:24 AM

It's a deviant act involving avocados, clothespins, and a bullwhip.

I shall say no more...

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 12:24 PM

Natasha Kinski and Rudolph Nureyev in "Exposed" if you could get through the inane plot, dreadful acting, and mincing Rudy. The nude sex was great until he started playing her like a fiddle. I saw it in a theatre and the entire audience was laughing out loud.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 12:32 PM

It's no wonder I'm sex starved, I have not seen one of the films listed!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 02:43 PM

A friend and I were seated in a darkened theater in Seattle back in the 1970s when the first Rocky was released. The old-time theater played a short subject first, a little film called "The Prince." A well-to-do woman wakes up alone in bed, strolls through her shower and into tennis whites, heads across the estate to the tennis court. She turns on a tape, turns on the tennis ball launching machine and we listen to the deep male voice calmly then more passionately instruct her on the proper technique. A flurry of balls at the end of the session, then as she sits against the fence panting the machine lets one lone little ball go, drop-like, out of the launcher.

I presume that some poor soul in the theater didn't understand the movie. Some other soul, sotto voce, responded "It means sex" into the looming silence of the theater, whereupon the entire audience, who heard this answer to a man, roared with laughter.

Best short subject I ever saw, for that one answer alone. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 07:22 PM

"You Can Thank Me Later" and "The Piano Teacher" should deserve honorable mention, at least. ...and "La Belle Noiseuse" for the poses, if nothing else.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: astro
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 09:12 PM

I'm into astro...teach it...and like buff stuff too...I guess it's universal....


Astro in Los Angeles while away from home in Tucson...



(I'm an astronomy buff....(and other things))

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 09:18 PM

astro in the buff... dancing among the stars in the dark... sounds like a nice movie to me!

~ B in T

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: astro
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 09:20 PM

Well, honey...I'll pick up the films on the way home....

To ~B in T from astro, out there....

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 09:27 PM

So handy that we have a list...

[back to our regularly scheduled programming...]

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: astro
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 09:29 PM

You know I've had a list for some time.....

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 09:31 PM

astro, you're confusing this with the tugboat story.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: astro
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 09:37 PM

No I was lisping, not listing....

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: jaze
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 01:26 PM

There's a brief but very sensual scene with James Brolin and Margot Kidder in Amityville Horror strangely enough.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 02:56 PM

Those names redirect my thoughts to sensuality on television. Whole new thread in some ways, but often films make it to TV (with drastic edits to remove the sex but leave any violence intact--so much for the value system in our commercial American culture!) I can't think of any stunning sex scenes in television, though I know it has been a hot-button issue at times. I can only name one: Spock and Uhura. :)

Magnum P.I. had a brief scene with Selleck's buns in the shower in view many years ago, that was quite an event. Dallas? I simply don't watch today's television season lineup, not a single dramatic program, so I don't know if any of them are getting away with good sex or not. For good sex on TV, must one turn to that strange step-child, cable programming? HBO and Showtime?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 06:13 PM

NYPD Blue had brief sex scenes, though they made a great deal about the partial nudity shown, it was still relatively pale...

Astro

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 11:41 PM

I've seen 11 - so maybe perv status still eludes me.......I thought the sex scenes in Coming Home and in The Piano were wonderful. I still remember having seen Coming Home and telling someone at work about it and what a BRILLIANT intimate scene it had with a paraplegic making love -- the person I was telling looked at me in utter horror........but it was WONDERFULLY done.....

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 30 Aug 07 - 09:36 AM

No Emmanuelle on the list, I'm disappointed!

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 30 Aug 07 - 09:47 AM

I always thought the rape/murder scene from Frenzy was a bit of a hoot.

Barry Foster, that most parfait genteel amongst thespians, doing his best RADA cockney, declaiming 'Lavely! Lavely!' as he orgasmed.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 30 Aug 07 - 12:50 PM

No Emmanuelle, surely, because these films are generally good films with good stores that needed a sex scene and did it roperly? As opposed to 'E' or ... 'The Story of O' or other such....

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: robomatic
Date: 30 Aug 07 - 05:51 PM

I'm surprised the well known (to those of us aged enough) beach scene in "From Here to Eternity" didn't make the list: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling about in the sand fully clothed but generating a lot o' static for a' that.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:38 AM

I received a couple from Netflix last week. With some of these films, like Shortbus, a little goes a long way! There's a surprisingly coherent story behind all of the sex.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: fat B****rd
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:03 AM

Just thought of Alan Bates and Jenny Linden "doing it" in the grass in "Women In Love"

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: kendall
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 07:40 AM

The dance scene from Scent of a woman.

Subject: RE: BS: 50 Greatest Film S*x Scenes? IFC sez so
From: harpmolly
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:01 AM

Hello!?!? Has no one here seen any Peter Greenaway film, ever?

The Pillow Book. That's all I have to say on the subject. Mmmmmm...ewanewanewan...damn...

*going for a lie down*