Vintage! Foreign! Erotic!

List'em, because I just watched Belle de jour, and I want more.

Obscure Object of Desire
Vixen!
Candy
Women In Love
I Am Curious
The Night Porter
Salò or 120 Days of Sodom

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

Sorry now but if you find Salo even vaguely erotic I kindof feel bad for you.

how am i supposed to know what 'erotic' means to you

Sorry now but if you find Salo even vaguely erotic I kindof feel bad for you.

OTM.

how am i supposed to know what 'erotic' means to you

Dictionary?

I'd like to know what is erotic about daytime prostitution and sanitized haute bourgeois s&m fantasies

A Very Curious Girl aka La Fiancée du pirate w/Bernadette Lafont being an Erica Gavin-esque sexy badass.

I'm so glad I started this thread of being pedantic about language and personal desire.

Regardless, anything listed is appreciated!

Also, I think it's time I watch L'Avventura.

Can anyone vouch for Woman in the Dunes? Looks intersting.

I think it will meet yr. requirements.

I think Tinto Brass is amazing, though he's certainly not for everybody, and it's mostly self-parody from the early nineties on.

The films always look terrific, very much Fellini inspired, and there is a demented Almodovaresque energy to the plots.

Ilsa!

on the erotic tip, pasolinis arabian nights is more enjoyable than salo.

"erotic tip", he he http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/brow.gif

Un Chant d'Amour
Un Chant d'Amour
Un Chant d'Amour

I should really see Arabian Nights, Decameron & Canterbury Tales. Pasolini being widely remembered as that guy who did Salo (in turn, now often mentioned alongside Cannibal Holocaust) has always put me off investigating his work.

Salo and Cannibal Holocaust don't really have that much in common other than a 'shocking' reputation. 'Pigsty' and 'The Gospel According to St Matthew' are Pasolini movies worth seeing, imho.

Vintage/Foreign/Erotic:

Les Valseuses
La Lectrice
Maitresse
Daughters of Darkness
L'Atlante (seriously)
Ai No Corrida
anything w/ edwige fenech

Salo's entire point was making anything sexual as cold and unerotic as humanly possible.

Claire's Knee?

My current obsession is Joseph W. Sarno. You'd definitely love Young Playthings which many judge to be his masterpiece. I might too if I could find a copy with better sound. But my favorite Sarnos don't correspond precisely to the "Foreign!" requirement. He did make some films in Europe but apart from Young Playthings, the ones I've seen so far have been ho-hum (although The Indelicate Balance is so boring it becomes almost fascinating like those films you catch on TV a third of the way through when you can't sleep or you're ill). The films he shot in suburban New York, however, are amazing. I strongly recommend Sin in the Suburbs and The Swap, both on one Something Weird DVD, and Moonlighting Wives. All concern the angst of housewivery and the former two climax in Eyes Wide Shut-style masked sex games.

Check out Radley Metzger. I think he's overrated but I've long been hypnotized by The Image aka The Punishment of Anne.

You'd probably like Jean Rollin even more. I've only seen Fascination and I didn't quite get the, um fascination. VERY European, very stilted, lots of vampires, etc.

I've only seen one Jess Franco film, Venus in Furs, but it was so excruciatingly dull and pointless that I never sought out another. You may have a better reaction.

If you jettison the "Foreign!" requirement, I can tell you all about my beloved Zalman King...

Oh, go on, do tell us all about Zalman King. I know Michael 'Psychotronic' Weldon rates him too. My own favorite in the probably-not-foreign-in-your-terms stakes is Naked Tango. Haven't seen it for years, and it wasn't on DVD last time I checked, but I remember it as being feverishly over the top on just about every level.

Sarno and Metzger have been vaguely on my list to investigate for some time, and are duly moved up. Jess Franco IS wildly patchy and often dull. I really like Erotic Rites of Frankenstein though, not because it's actually erotic, but because it's absolutely nuts and has a great improvised score.

please don't deliver us from evil.

i am not a film geek, and this movie is super cheesy, but a lot of fun and there are young girls doing naughty things.

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Get thee to Zalman King's miraculous Women of the Night. With all the seriousness I can muster, it's one of the most singular motion picture experiences I've ever had. Every visual moment dazzles with a Sternbergian attention to detail, even (especially) the most throwaway shot. Not only that, every sonic moment dazzles so that this comes off as a fusion of The Devil is a Woman with the soundtrack of Thunderbolt. The premise is deliciously overstuffed and absurd filled with incantatory repetitions (of actors as well as lines of dialogue so that's there a bit of Celine and Julie Go Boating in this too), bizarre asides, still photography, tons of songs (many by Madonna associate Donna De Lory), kinetic dissolves, gorgeous quick cuts, much more. As one character puts it, "Heaven could be any place; why not here?"

And as if that weren't amazing enough, Zalman King is the star of my all-time favorite film (which some people are sick of hearing about), Some Call It Loving which definitely fits all the non-foreign thread requirements although it might as well be foreign (if not downright alien) given the extreme attention it requires. Clearly, the man has tapped into something fundamental in my sensorium.

And although it's slightly tangential to this thread, please please please check out Anna Biller's jaw-dropping Viva just out on DVD.

http://www.lifeofastar.com/

Go there now!

Thanks for the tips. Viva looks amazing. Women of the Night sounds nuts, and I immediately warm to any film where the first imdb user response thrown up is "absolutely Terrible!"