~~ Erotic Thrillers of the 80s and 90s ~~

Although it's played for laughs, I find the Robert DeNiro/Bridget Fonda sex scene in Jackie Brown to be very unpleasant. Maybe it's a good thing he feels this way.

per latest Karina Longworth episode, Theresa Russell's career is truly interesting but she's difficult to assess as an actor. I thought she was amazing in Bad Timing but had an opposite reaction when I saw her in Whore (during its brief theatrical run). But I suspect the problem in Whore is that Ken Russell's natural staginess overrides her skills somehow; would be interesting to see that again after all these years. Rewatched Crimes of Passion with Kathleen Turner and that film has a similar staginess problem although Turner does a good job in it.

I'm glad you brought her up; except for in Black Widow I've never considered her a watchable actor.

(xpost) She's fantastic in Straight Time--small role, might be her first film.

Worth a read: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8117-the-wet-dreams-and-twisted-politics-of-erotic-thrillers

Watching The Bedroom Window right now and I swear I’ve seen this exact same premise in an Italian giallo. Man’s girlfriend witnesses a crime from their apartment window… man reports it to the police as if he had witnessed it. Ring any bells to anyone? Early ‘70s Italian giallo?

lol I read that as "gelato"

Steve Guttenberg and Isabelle Huppert as a couple is a fantasy that only Hollywood’s dream merchants could bless us with

I saw The Bedroom Window at a second run theater when it was new and recalled sort of liking its neo-Hitchcockisms, but rewatching last night it's really not very good.

The You Must Remember This episode yesterday on Basic Instinct was unsurprisingly great. (Also a nice move to use selections from Sharon Stone's audiobook reading of her autobiography at points.)

Haven’t gotten to that one yet but anything that dissuades her from doing impressions is a plus (her Eastwood was a struggle!)

I'm still haunted by her Susan Atkins.

yeah i enjoyed this episode a lot, the stone audio was a nice touch. She did the same iirc for Carre Otis in the Wild Orchid/Rourke episode & it really elevated the ep i thought

lol Call Me is so bad. Why am I watching these things when there are other actually good movies on Criterion?

Is that a rhetorical question?

Dream Lover is currently on Criterion ending this month, and I thought it was entertaining, some offbeat dialogue, good supporting characters and plot turns. And Madchen Amick is beautiful.

Have we talked about The Hot Spot? Dennis Hopper directed 1990 adaptation of the very hood Charles Williams novel about car salesmen, sex and robbery? I lived that book so I’m gonna watch this one asap. May actually start it now, before work.

Have we talked about The Hot Spot? Dennis Hopper directed 1990 adaptation of the very hood Charles Williams novel about car salesmen, sex and robbery? I lived that book so I’m gonna watch this one asap. May actually start it now, before work.

I can’t type on my phone sorry.

Interested to see what you think.

Well... so far, I like the shots of the small town location. The acting is not particularly great. It's certainly erotic, and certainly a thriller. The sexy stuff can be a lil over the top (already, hardly into the film) but, I'll enjoy it. Probably finish this evening or tomorrow.

B-b-but what about the soundtrack?

It's not the worst, but definitely helps to date the film. The eating-pussy-in-the-car scene was a littttttle extra, if you know what i mean.

Enjoyed the heist sequence itself.
Now off to work.

Rep theatre screening of Basic Instinct. It really is kind of terrible. Two good things: Sharon Stone's performance--she seems to be the only one who's onto how campy and overwrought it all is--and four Seinfeld people.

(Six actually, checking online--four I knew.)