17 August 2008

Half-arsed apology for inactivity

There's not been too much activity on the nations TV screens to flag up recently and I have in any case been distracted by the spectacle of the Olympics!

I've updated the Cinema and DVD nudity sidebars and the video download charts today and will aim to keep these up-to-date, but until there's some more to report on TV skin (which generally perks up with the new season's programming come September), I may not post much else.

Unless the muse inspires me...

03 August 2008

Preview 3 to 9 August

Relatively little skin in the upcoming week but it's worth posting a reminder that Dexter (FX Sun 3rd 10.00 pm or Tues 5th 10.00 pm or Thurs 7th 11.30 pm) reaches Episode 5 which is where Jaime Murray's run of nude scenes begin. The other import from across the pond with added skin is of course The Tudors. Those who missed last Friday's opener can catch a repeat this week (BBC1 Wed 6th 11.15 pm), whilst the series continues later in the week (BBC2 Fri 8th 9.00 pm) with Natalie Dormer's best - and last - nudity this season.

There are only a few films with nude scenes this week. Monster (Film4 Mon 4th 10.45) has brief nudity from an uglified Charlize Theron - probably for completists only - while Annabella Sciorra's nude scene
in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (ITV2 Mon 4th 12.00 am) is also fairly perfunctory. Diane Keaton's flash in Something's Gotta Give (ITV Sat 9th 10.00 pm) is blink-and-you-miss-it and is notable primarily for the actress's age. Incense for the Damned (BBC2 Fri 8th 1.50 am) has some nice 70's sleazy horror T&A but the cast will be familiar only to those with looong memories. Finally, Married to the Mob (ITV Sat 9th 2.40 am) is worth catching for some good-quality nudity from the rather lovely Nancy Travis, then in little more than a bit part, who went on to sitcom success.

27 July 2008

Incoming 27 July to 2 August

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).

19 July 2008

Very little to highlight - 19 to 26 July

This summer's screen skin is almost as bad as this summer's weather. There are a few films with some nudity in the next week but nothing that is likely to be new to connoisseurs. For the sake of having something to write...

In The Machinist (Film4 Sun 20th 10.45 pm or Fri 25th 12.45 am) Jennifer Jason Leigh continues into her third decade of screen nudity. Long may she continue. The Wicker Man (ITV4 Tues 22nd 11.00 pm or Wed 23rd 10.00 pm) is a classic - both among horror fans and skin aficianados - that surely everyone has seen. 70s starlets Britt Ekland and Ingrid Pitt tempt virgin copper Edward Woodward to his doom. Candy (Film4 Tues 22nd 1.35 am or Sat 26th 12.45 am) features much nudity from Aussie up-and-comer Abbie Cornish, whilst in Rogue Trader (ITV4 Thurs 24th 10.00 pm) the lovely Anna Friel offers some brief skin.

Crash (Five US Thurs 24th 10.50 pm) was the film that got certain local councillors (unnecessarily) hot under the collar a decade ago and whilst their reaction may have been ridiculous, the nudity from Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette (both brief), and Deborah Kara Unger (extensive) is worth tuning in for. Two vaguely sleazy B-movies round off the week: Porky's (Film4 Thurs 24th 11.20 pm) was considered the height of salaciousness when I was 14, whilst Terror (BBC2 Fri 25th 2.05 am) is one of those tits'n'gore fleapit flicks from the 70s which many people like to forget ever got made in the UK.

06 July 2008

Preview - 6th to12th July

Starting tonight on FX is the 2nd series of black-as-pitch comedy meets serial killer thriller Dexter (Sun 6th 10.00 pm, repeated Tues 8th 10.00 pm & Thurs 10th 11.30pm). The focal point of interest for UK viewers is the addition of Jaime Murray to the cast, and more to the point, the multiple nude scenes she delivers during the series. Those who've been looking forward to a nude scene from the classy brunette since she first slinked onto our screens in Hustle will have to wait until Ep. 5 (and Ep. 6, and Ep.7, and Ep.10!) but the show is well worth watching from the start and the opening episode has the added bonus of rear nudity and partial breast nudity from Julie Benz, who genre fans will remember as Darla from Buffy & Angel.

Elsewhere tonight there's "another chance to catch" Wide Sargasso Sea (BBC4 Tues 8th 10.30 pm) from a couple of years back with some enjoyable skin from the lovely Rebecca Hall whilst Dr T & the Women (Film4 Sun 6th 1.10 am) has brief nudity from a variety of US actresses. Unexpected nudity of the week might be found in Jane Austen adaptation (!) Mansfield Park (UKTV Drama Sun 6th 12.05 am) where the unlikely but attractive figure of TV regular Victoria Hamilton reveals her breasts.

Later in the week American Civil War drama Cold Mountain (BBC3 Wed 9th 9.00 pm) has several nude scenes including one (fair-to-middling) from Nicole Kidman. Of greater interest by far is the TV premiere of Brit psychological drama cum revenge thriller Straightheads (Film4 Wed 9th 11.15 pm) which features an excellent and, more to the point, occasionally naked performance from Gillian Anderson. Barring a glorified nipslip from before she became a 90s TV icon in The X-Files, this is Gillian's only screen nudity and is worth tuning in for even if you're not a fanboy.

Strange Days (ITV4 Fri 11th 10.40 pm) is a film I've flagged up before but I'll do it again as Juliette Lewis is one of those actresses who always bring "value-added" to their nude scenes and there's more skin besides. Cor, Blimey! (BBC2 Sat 12th 9.000 pm) is a drama first shown in 2000 about the affair between Sid James and Barbara Windsor; Samantha Spiro playing Babs gets some brief skin-time. Finally Love Actually (ITV2 Sat 12th 10.05 pm) is the romcom it's OK to watch thanks to nude appearances by Laura Linney and Gavin & Stacey's Joanna Page. Tidy.

21 June 2008

Charts & stuff...

Hmm, how to explain the fact that Laura Fraser's vid from Talk To Me - which last troubled the top 10 months ago - has suddenly leapt to No. 1 in the site's download charts (see the sidebar if you want to see the latest chart). I can only assume that a lot of people saw Laura's recent performance in the BBC's family-friendly Florence Nightingale drama and thought "Hey, I wonder what the cute Victorian philanthropist looks like naked!" Shame on you all...

Incoming 21 to 27 June

After a long absence...

Broken Flowers (BBC2 Sat 21 June 9.30 pm) is a quirky and low-key Jim Jarmusch film. What interests us is the in-your-face full-frontal appearance of the extremely cute and at-the-time-20-year-old Alexis Dziena, probably best remembered in the UK as the teenage daughter in SF series Invasion.

Channel 4 rounds off its Victorian Passions series (up till now rather lacking in skin) with Upstairs Downstairs Love (C4 Mon 23 June 9.00 pm) which the RT describes as having "incredibly rude reconstructions". The bible of Middle England and I may have differing concepts of rudeness, so we shall have to see...

Having only finished running through it the other week, UK TV Drama begins to show classy early 90's cop drama Between the Lines Series 1 again nightly starting Tues 24 June 11.25pm (episode start times vary between 10ish and 11ish). Nicknamed "Between the Sheets", the series features a clutch of nude scenes, primarily from perennial UK TV face Lesley Vickerage.

In Hollow Man (C5 Wed 25 June 10.00 pm) Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven adds a sheen of smut to a standard piece of Hollywood hackwork. Rhona Mitra, who has since gone on to better things, displays her (sadly plasticised) breasts. Sensitive aesthetes may prefer Danish Dogme-style drama Open Hearts (BBC4 Wed 25 June 10.00 pm) - which also has the advantage of small screen newness - and features nudity from leading Danish actress Sonja Richter. (I offer this sight unseen, but CNdb.com has a review).

I know I've flagged this one up several times before but The End of the Affair (Film4 Thurs 26 June 1.30 am) has decent skin from Julianne Moore for those who have yet to catch it.

Now, just got to update all those Cinema and DVD listings that I've let get behind...

31 May 2008

Sorry!

I've been a little distracted the last couple of weeks. I'm going to be updating the film & DVD sidebars today and/or tomorrow and hope to get to make some proper posts in the near future!

11 May 2008

New video clip - Amelia Curtis

This isn't the rather more substantial spoof softcore lesbian scene from Episode 10 of Love Soup (only caught it on i-player and that is not readily cappable!) but the brief "Is it a dummy or a naked actress?" scene from Episode 8. Brief full frontal, though, so worth a look. Two jokes based around the reality or otherwise of filmed nude scenes in one series. Screen skin gets post-modern.

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Amelia Curtis - Love Soup - via Rapidshare - 5.95 MB - 0m 34 s

Amelia Curtis - Love Soup - via Sendspace - 5.95 MB - 0m 34 s

For anyone after a clip of the later scene it's available on Nude Ramble.

10 May 2008

Upcoming TV skin - 10 to 18 May

No obvious upcoming nudity on new made-for-TV programming in the upcoming days but there's a decent selection of films with watchable screen skin, all of which I believe I've flagged up previously: -

Cerina Vincent topless in Cabin Fever (Film4 Sat 10th 11.05 pm or Thurs 15th 11.10 pm); Alexandra Paul full frontal in 8 Million Ways to Die (Five US Sat 10th 11.00 pm); Lisa Bonet topless in Angel Heart (ITV4 Sat 10th 1.10 am or Sun 11th 11.10 pm); Kate Winslet full frontal in Holy Smoke (Film4 Sun 11th 11.35 pm or Tues 13th 1.45 am); Connie Nielsen topless and Charlize Theron full frontal in The Devil's Advocate (Bravo Wed 14th 9.00 pm); Francesca Neri topless in Live Flesh (Film4 Thurs 15th 12.55 am or Sun 18th 1.45 am); Mia Sara topless in Timecop (BBC1 Fri 16th 11.40 pm); Ludivine Sagnier topless and Charlotte Rampling full frontal in Swimming Pool (Film4 Fri 16th 11.05 pm); Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon getting it on in Bound (ITV4 Sat 17th 12.30 am or Sun 18th 11.15 pm); Abbie Cornish topless in Candy (C4 Sun 18th 11.35 pm).

05 May 2008

New video capture - Jenny Agutter

Having spotted the lovely Jenny Agutter returning to our screens in the new drama The Invisibles I decided to add a clip of one of her nude film appearances which did so much to enliven the grey days of the 1970s. I suspect 55-year-old Jenny's screen skin days are behind her now, but this full-frontal appearance from decidedly odd 1977 drama Equus repays a revisit.

(Fans of Spooks may appreciate the metafictional idea that this scene is actually a young Harry & Tessa going deep undercover. Not that there's much in the way of covering!).

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Jenny Agutter - Equus - via Rapidshare - 31.8 MB - 3m 05s

Jenny Agutter - Equus - via Rapidshare - 31.8 MB - 3m 05s