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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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"The Silence"

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No arguments with the choices of the Nerve.com team for the Most Important (i.e., brazen, influential, talk-stirring) Nude Scenes of all time, but most of us recognize that nude scenes are about "importance" second and erotic intrigues and arousals first. The good ones are, at least. And in this sense Ingmar Bergman's The Silence has almost no parallel. Sven Nykvist's black-and-white photography of the sultry, vaguely self-disgusted Gunnel Lindblom in various states of undress in that downtown hotel room (and bathroom) is the stuff that lifelong dreams are made of.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 29, 2007 at 08:04 PM

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jeffmcm says ...

The Gift (though fun) and Swordfish are not important in any way (although John Travolta does blow up Osama Bin Laden in the final scene of Swordfish, so I guess it's prescient).

Posted by jeffmcm at March 30, 2007 01:04 AM

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joncro says ...

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2045293,00.html

I know this isn't strictly relevant but thought it may be of interest - Ray Winstone os to be in the new Indiana Jones?

Let's hope they don't make him use a dodgy American accent, like in The Departed.

Posted by joncro at March 30, 2007 04:52 AM

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Me says ...

I always thought that it was the exploitation of Phoebe Cates' nude scene that made actresses so hesitant about revealing themselves from then on. And with the internet now, nude scenes no longer need any context to end up everywhere.

Posted by Me at March 30, 2007 07:15 AM

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Doug Pratt says ...

Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet

Posted by Doug Pratt at March 30, 2007 07:16 AM

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mitch says ...

With honest and delicate regards to Phoebe Cates, she truly was (and may still be) a vision of perfection to my adolescent eyes.

Posted by mitch at March 30, 2007 10:48 AM

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cjKennedy says ...

Ahhh...Phoebe Cates wins the prize for being the perfect woman in the perfect scene at the perfect time (when I was 13). She's forever linked to The Cars song Moving in Stereo.

Posted by cjKennedy at March 30, 2007 11:09 AM

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NYCBusybody says ...

Wow, a generically-average looking woman sitting grumpily in a 50's bathtub while Timmy from "Lassie", wearing short-shorts taken directly from one of those old Japanese horror movies MST3K used to show, either reaches for her ass or turns on the faucet...that turns Wells on?

Explains a lot.

Posted by NYCBusybody at March 30, 2007 01:22 PM

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Cadavra says ...

Randi Brooks getting into the jacuzzi in Eastwood's TIGHTROPE is my fave. God, was that woman built.

Posted by Cadavra at March 30, 2007 02:39 PM

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jeffmcm says ...

Gee, NYC, maybe since Wells was talking about a feature-length film and not a still image it would indicate that there's a larger context being discussed?

Posted by jeffmcm at March 30, 2007 06:26 PM

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