The 20 Best “That Guys” of All Time. Alas, no Elisha Cook, Vincent Schiavelli, or Woody Strode. But it will do for your next cocktail party conversation.
Category / Film
Hold Steadicam
A great collection of long takes. My favorite: I Am Cuba, although who can argue with many of the others, including the great Hard-Boiled shootout? (via MeFi
The Ten Strangest Mainstream Sex Scenes
In my view, one of the greatest cinematic sex scenes of all time was in Michael Mak’s 1992 film Sex and Zen (alas, YouTube fails me!), where the actors commit carnal activity while traveling through the air on wires (in trapeze delicto?). While that indelible movie moment isn’t on this handy list, there are plenty others that are. And since it’s a Monday, I think it’s safe to say that a little NSFW interspecies erotica is in order. (via Quiddity)
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Thanks for Spoiling the Movie, Gray Lady
New York Times Corrections: “A film review in Weekend on Friday about ‘Lonely Hearts’ referred incorrectly to the suicide of the wife of the central character, the detective Elmer Robinson. She shoots herself; she does not slash her wrists.”