MC's Wednesday Inventory #1: Your 6 Sexiest Films

[dreamdead]

This should be self-explanatory. I want to know what 6 films you believe to be the sexiest you've seen (and why for those who abhor straight lists)...

[ledfloyd]

Hmm... this is completely off the top of my head:

2046
Eyes Wide Shut
Femme Fatale
Mulholland Drive
Notorious
Out of Sight

[elixir]

friday night because casual encounters made transcendent
fallen angels because free flowing form female fingering
double life of veronique because colors adorning figures
pola x because steamed rooms and blood rivers
a travers la foret because ghostly single take lovemaking
boarding gate because asia argento

[elixir]

eyes wide shut is extremely unsexy

[amberlita]

A Streetcar Named Desire
Sex and Lucia
Lust, Caution
Secretary


Eh....maybe I'll think of more later.

[Skitch]

eyes wide shut is extremely unsexy

EWO was the first film I thought of in response to this thread. Nicole Kidman lounging around in see through nightie-wear is extremely sexy.

[ledfloyd]

Man, I totally spaced on Friday Night, Veronique and BOARDING GATE.

[dreamdead]

I'll be honest. This thread was 60% created so I can see what Spinal lists. ;)

[dreamdead]

1. In the Mood for Love: cheongsam + Maggie Cheung = #1
2. Pierrot le Fou: it's weird, but Karina just radiates here as the real-life attraction with Godard draws to a close
3. Friday Night: intimacy of contact and attraction is almost unparalleled in Denis's framing
4. The 39 Steps: is this the first film to make handcuffs attractive?
5. Double Life of Veronique: both for its gorgeous hues and Irene Jacobs
6. Fallen Angels: captures sexual attraction, magnetism, desolation, and earnestness so well

Honorable mentions: Lady Chatterley (2006), Mulholland Dr., Housemaid (1960), The Piano, The Shop Around the Corner, All that Jazz, Pandora’s Box

[Skitch]

I think 3 Iron is pretty sexy.

[Watashi]

1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
2. United 93
3. Straw Dogs
4. Grizzly Man
5. A Goofy Movie
6. My Dinner with Andre

My reasonings are self-explanatory.

[Russ]

I'll be honest. This thread was 60% created so I can see what Spinal lists. ;)

You can bet that Valerie and Her WOW is on his list.

[Watashi]

You can bet that Valerie and Her WOW is on his list.

Don't forget Tinto Brass's Cheeky.

[Spinal]

1. Secret Things (Brisseau)
2. All That Jazz (Fosse)
3. Y tu mamá también (Cuarón)
4. Cheeky (Brass)
5. Spring Breakers (Korine)
6. Valmont (Forman)

Also ...
Pina (Wenders), Queen Margot (Chéreau), Contempt (Godard), Onibaba (Shindô), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jires)

[Rowland]

I'll limit my list to stuff I've watched in the last year, otherwise I'll be sitting here forever thinking about it.

Girl Walk // All Day
The Paperboy
A Short Film About Love
A Song of Love
Stoker
Weekend

[thefourthwall]

In the Cut
Splendor in the Grass
A Room with a View
Young Victoria
Metropolitan

[Lucky]

Metropolitan? I love that movie, but really?
From my DVD collection quickly:

2046. Dat kiss.
Femme Fatale. Serpant dress.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Chemistry.
Closer. Portman's heaven cunt.
Before Sunset. 80 min foreplay banter.
Unfaithful. Naughty milf.

I agree with all of ledfloyd's choices, actually. Notorious is an unexpected one.

[Watashi]

Unfaithful.

Definitely.

[Skitch]

Closer.

YES.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Baby Doll
In the Mood for Love
Lost Highway
Bound
Body Heat
The Lady Eve

[B-side]

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
A Real Young Girl (Catherine Breillat, 1979)
Ken Park (Larry Clark/Edward Lachman, 2002)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012)
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964)

[Skitch]

Lost Highway
Bound
Body Heat


Yes, yes, and hell yes.

[Boner M]

A Real Young Girl (Catherine Breillat, 1979)
ewwwww

[Skitch]

True Romance.

[Pop Trash]

Rambling Rose
Before Sunset
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
The Conformist

[ledfloyd]

Baby Doll
Another that slipped my mind.

[wigwam]

Kaboom
Killer Joe
Jack and Diane
Little Birds
Cracks
St Trinians 2

[Derek]

ewwwww

Yeah, Anatomy of Hell is waaay sexier.

[Boner M]

Unmentioned:

Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
Gun Crazy (Lewis)
L'eau Froide (Assayas)
Deep End (Skolimowski)
Blissfully Yours (Weerasethakul)

[Raiders]

Has nobody mentioned Pandora's Box? That would top my list.

[Rowland]

Dressed to Kill
Death Proof


1. Secret Things (Brisseau)Also Brisseau's The Exterminating Angels, very sleazy but hot.

[Boner M]

Worth mentioning Don Siegel's The Beguiled too.

[Lucky]

I was thinking of this thread today and remembered The Dreamers. That should have been on my list.

[ciaoelor]

Eyes Wide Shut has some sexy scenes. The scene with Nicole Kidman and the older gentleman. The scene with Tom Cruise and the two women. Another scene with Tom Cruise and the prostitute, and a later scene between him and the prostitute's roommate. There's no sex in these scenes, just chemistry and body language.

[Ezee E]

Eyes Wide Shut has some sexy scenes. The scene with Nicole Kidman and the older gentleman. The scene with Tom Cruise and the two women. Another scene with Tom Cruise and the prostitute, and a later scene between him and the prostitute's roommate. There's no sex in these scenes, just chemistry and body language.

Very much so.

I think the best one may be the interaction with the prostitute's roommate. Wow.

[Yxklyx]

I don't have too much to offer here but I thought the seduction sequence in Asphalt (1929, Joe May) is the best one I've ever seen. The 10+ minute sequence of scenes is just a wonder to behold.

Oh yes, and as someone else mentioned, Sex and Lucia has probably the most attractive cast (men and women) of any move I've ever seen.

[Melville]

First thing that comes to mind is Sleeping Beauty (naked person one).

[MarcusBrody]

Y Tu Mama Tambien (Cuaron) - the atmosphere of fate and discovery
Before Sunset (Linklater) - the realism and tension
Celine and Jules go Boating (Rivette) - The dash to surrealistic freedom is joyous
Desperado (Rodriguez) - sexy people and danger get the heart pumping
Sex and Lucia (Medem)- Because it's my wife's sexiest film

I can't think of a sixth. Possibly The Dreamers, but it's a film that I always want to love, but really only like.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I'm not okay with having forgot to list Ecstasy (1933). Hedy Lamaar needs representation in this thread.

[Fezzik]

Body Heat and In the Mood For Love were the two that immediate popped into my head.