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Carnal Knowledge excerpted from Movieline's January/February 1993 More Sex Than Usual Issue. by Stephen Farber Good sex is even harder to find on-screen than it is in real life. Directors who know how to film the erotic tell us what sex scenes they admire. Philip Kaufman: The eating scene in Tom Jones was interesting and funny. Just the way Albert Finney looked at Joyce Redmon was very sexy. A glance can be highly erotic, though I'm not totally of the school that says less is more. Ron Shelton: There's a scene in The Lady Eve where Henry Fonda is trying to fit Barbara Stanwyck's shoe on. It goes on for about four minutes. He's on his knees and she's in complete command... It's presumably about something else, and yet all of the undertone is sex. Paul Schrader: I thought Verhoeven and Eszterhas got it just right [in Basic Instinct]... There was just enough sex to grab attention, but actually the big scene in that movie is 99 percent tease, and I think that's the way it should be. People don't really want to see sex. They want to almost see it." PAGE 1 | 2 |
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Roman Polanski: [In Barry Lyndon, when Barry's (Ryan O'Neal) cousin begins to kiss him] They were both fully clothed in the scene and yet that kiss was as arousing-maybe even more arousing-than the crudest scenes from Last Tango. Nicolas Roeg: [Regarding his film Don't Look Now] The censor said, 'We have an absolute rule. No pubic hair.' I said, 'There isn't any.' He had seen something in the film that wasn't there. [The intercutting of Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland making love with images of the two of them getting dressed afterwards is one of the most memorable of all erotic sequences.] PAGE 1 | 2 |