Author: Scoop

Ronia Ava in Queer (2024)

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Luca Guadagnino film based upon the work of William S. Burroughs. 78% at Rotten Tomatoes, 72 at Metacritic. Daniel Craig was nominated for the Golden Globe as the Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama.

Luca Guadagnino was prolific in 2024. He also directed Challengers.

William Lee, an American expat and heroin addict in Mexico City in the 1950s, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community he lives in. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, makes him believe it might finally be possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.


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upgrade: Noemie Merlant naked in Emmanuelle (2024)

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Upgraded to 4K

I thought I was Emmanuelled out, but this 4K version changed my mind. It is absolutely worth an additional look. We’ve noted before that many 4K versions are disappointingly not as clear as the 1080 version. There have been exceptions, like Oppenheimer, which was specifically filmed with superior technology, to be presented in ultra-HD. I won’t tell you this one is as crisp as Oppenheimer, but it’s pretty damned good.


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Defoe’s 4K film clip is here

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She was also topless in a behind-the-scenes video


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The behind-the-scenes vid.

From the comments:

Those BTS footage of her topless actually came from the documentary De ‘Emmanuelle’ à ‘Emmanuelle ‘ : Deux Films au Cœur des Révolutions Sexuelles. I found the full film in here. The documentary includes that selfie scene as well as several nude photos of the real life Emmanuelle Arsan.

The 10 Ways You Are Most Likely To Die in America

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My guesses:

1. Fast-food-induced heart attack.
2. Drug OD
3. Gunshot wounds

I wasn’t that far off. Here is the real list. It’s kind of a dumb list because everyone dies eventually, and most of these are just different ways that the door finally closes on the elderly. If you take the things that are just “dying of old age” off the list, and list only causes of premature death, I may have been close, which is surprising, given that I thought I was just screwin’ around.

Katharine Ross topless (1974) … and a question

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Have any of you looked at the UHD version of Le Hasard et la Violence? This film contains the one and only clear topless scene from Katharine Ross (of The Graduate).1

According to this site, the film is available in 4K, but I’m not inclined to trust it.

So far my collection consists of this film clip and a few mediocre captures:


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Footnote 1: She did a brief breast-feeding scene in the Betsy and a see-thru to prosthetic breasts in The Stepford Wives, but both of those scenes are rubbish nudity. She did an exceedingly dark scene in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here in which she seemed to show a nipple, but who knows? No flesh is visible around that nipple.

The Betsy (1978)

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The Stepford Wives (1972)

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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)

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She will turn 85 this month, which is older than I thought before looking it up, but I don’t feel too bad about my confusion, because she always claimed to be younger. She became famous when The Graduate came out in 1967. She was supposed to be a college student in that film, but was really only 8 years younger than Anne Bancroft, who played her mother. That wasn’t known at the time because she had gone full Mimi Rogers on her birthdate. Early in her career, Ross claimed to be born in 1943 rather than 1940. She was eventually unmasked by the databases now publicly available. Whatever age she is, she is still alive and healthy, as far as I know. She seems to have retired now, but she had a starring role as recently as 2019.