Best/Worst Blow Jobs in a Non-pornographic Film (reprise)
Not to beat the issue to death, but
the credit cookie mentioned below reminded me of a posting I did three years
ago, which seems to have vanished into electronic oblivion. So I'll resurrect
it here. It was about [SPOILER!] "Best/Worst Blow-Jobs in a Non-Pornographic
Film," an award I thought at the time I might bestow on Carlos Reygadas's "
Battle
in Heaven,"
which was on my top ten list in 2005 and not just because it opened with a five minute scene of
the sad sack protagonist looking perfectly miserable as he's serviced by some
babe. I knew the film would never get an Oscar, so I pitched this as a possible
award category. As you will see if you happen to catch "The Hangover,"
that film could be in the running too. But
it would face stiff competition from the following:
1) The dialectical oralism of Marco Bellocchio's "Devil in
the Flesh," (1986) in which Maruschka Detmers services Federico
Pitzalis while telling him the story of how Lenin snuck into St. Petersburg to
start the Russian Revolution.
2) Michael Winterbottom's "Nine Songs"
(2005) I can't remember the specifics, but they do everything else in the film,
so I'm sure it happened and wasn't very good.
3) Hal Ashby's "Shampoo" (1975) ,
in which Warren Beatty gets a wash and rinse under a table.
4) George Roy Hill's "The World According to Garp" (1982), in which oral sex in a moving vehicle
proves hard to swallow.
5) Any film by Catherine Breillat.
6) Vincent Gallo demonstrating that he's a head case with the help of Chloe Sevigny in "The Brown
Bunny"
(2004).
7) The biting irony of the original "The Last House on the
Left"(1975).
I'm sure there are more. If so, keep them coming.
