so which scenes stick out as the most erotic, romantic, or just plain memorable. I just watched the cooler recently and was a little startled by how visceral some of it was.
The Femme Fatale "washroom rendezvous" I'd say would have to rank up there. Sex is a prevalent theme in De Palma's films. Unfaithful with Diane Lane as well.
Two completely different perspectives: The extended kiss in Hitchcock’s Notorious—nothing explicit, but very erotic and In the Realm of Senses, which has nothing boderline at all about it. By far the most explicit sex in a mainstream film that I’ve ever seen.
The Cooler was already on my list of must-rent, I guess I now have to add Femme Fatale and Original Sin! A couple of favorites of mine are Sharon Stone/Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct and Ellen Barkin/Al Pacino in Sea of Love.
The squeaky mattress scene from DELICATESSEN. Two rats in a garbage can having carnal relations in PECKER.
Mainstream in the sense that it is not a porn film. It was screened pretty extensively on the art house circuit, back in the day. You will usually find it in the ‘foreign’ or ‘Japanese’ section of video stores (as opposed to the porn section), though to be sure you have to look in stores that have an extensive foreign section. It is also somewhere on the Sight and Sound Top list. I’d agree that it is not mainstream in the sense that it will be screened down at the local multiplex or that it can be found on the shelves of Blockbusters.
The kiss Sarah Michelle Gellar gave the other girl in Cruel Intentions gets my vote. Regarding Betty Blue. After all these years, I still don't know how to assess that film. It sure took some weird turns. I've heard that the opening scene wasn't acting.
Allow me to add "Monster's Ball: The Director's Cut" with Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton. That was HOT!!!
Don't Look Now with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. It has been rumored for many years that they were actually having sex. But Donald Sutherland refutes it (he talked about it when he was on Inside the Actors Studio).
