Sunday night brings a selection of film nudity.
Cabin Fever (
C4 Sun 27th 10.00 pm) was the first film by
Hostel director Eli Roth and already showed his commitment to old school horror values - i.e. lots of gore and
a dash of T&A.
Cerina Vincent provides the latter.
Claire Danes, meanwhile, has
a rare nude scene in
Shopgirl (
Film4 Sun 27th 10.40 pm or Fri 1st 10.45 pm) but the pick of the three must be
Where the Truth Lies (
BBC2 Sun 27th 11.00 pm) a complex mystery from director Atom Egoyan whose films often have a cerebral take on eroticism. Prudish America slapped an
NC-17 rating on the film, the commercial kiss of death and whilst
the nudity from
Rachel Blanchard and
Alison Lohman amongst others is certainly worth catching, it's hardly full-on smut.
Biopics of two acclaimed 20th Century artists screen later in the week and no biopic of an artist nowadays is complete without imagining what she got up to in bed. Ah Hollywood! In
Frida (
BBC1 Mon 28th 11.05 pm),
Salma Hayek manages to make a monobrow look sexy as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo,
ladling on the nudity between bouts of creative fervour and crippling illness.
Mia Maestro is among the other actresses who get artistically naked. Meanwhile
Gwyneth Paltrow plays troubled poet Sylvia Plath who
gets it on with James Bond, erm I mean former poet laureate Ted Hughes, between bouts of suicidal depression in
Sylvia (
BBC2 Thurs 31st 11.35 pm).
Horror in all its forms has a good showing this week. In addition to
Cabin Fever you can see cult classic
Re-Animator (
C4 Mon 28th 2.50 am) with 80s scream queen
Barbara Crampton in
one of horror's weirder moments and 70s Hammer favourite
Twins of Evil (
BBC2 Fri 1st 2.05 am) whose gimmick was a starring role for
Playboy Playmates Mary & Madeleine Collinson as the titular identical twins. One of the great misnomer titles as the whole point of the film is that only one of the twins is evil (and yes, she's
the one who does the most nudity). Try and work out which one it is... And if 70s gothic and 80s black comedy don't float your boat, try a double bill of 21st Century gore and flesh with
The Devil's Rejects (
ITV4 Fri 1st 12.10 am or Sat 2nd 10.30 pm) and
2001 Maniacs (
ITV4 Sat 2nd 12.40 am). Many model/actress/whatevers will die, but not before they get naked.
A couple of "previously mentioneds" include arty conundrum
A Zed & Two Noughts (
Sky Arts Thurs 31st 12.05 am) with a naked Frances Barber and
Boy A (
More 4 Sat 2nd 9.00 pm or 1.30 am) with a naked Katie Lyons, whilst the one spark of hope in the world of made-for-TV programming is the advent of Season 2 of
The Tudors (
BBC2 Fri 1st 9.00 pm or Wed 6th 11.15 pm). This sexed up BBC2's viewing figures last year and the second season promises more of the same with
most of the nudity apparently in the opening three episodes.
Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn
continues to show more flesh than seems entirely historically accurate whilst actresses in miscellaneous minor roles keep up the hey nonny nonny quotient.
A final shout must go out to Ingmar Bergman's
Summer with Monika (
Film4 Tues 29th 12.55am), an historic movie in terms of screen skin. Made in the 50s while we Brits were still worrying about whether off-the-shoulder dresses were a corrupting influence, the gloomy Swede lightened up long enough to have his titular heroine, as played by
Harriet Andersson,
scamper about starkers on the beach. Millions in less enlightened countries discovered an interest in arthouse cinema. After snipping bits out in the 50s to protect the delicate viewing public, the BBFC decided in the 90s when the film was re-released on video that, Ms Andersson's comeliness notwithstanding, the nudity was so wholesome and innocent that the film was PG.
O tempora! O mores! (I'm talking about Bergman and I'm quoting Latin - we aim to be the nudity blog for the intellectual perve).
