Best/Worst Blow Jobs in a Non-pornographic Film (reprise)

Published Jun 06 2009, 08:26 PM by Peter Keough

Not to beat the issue to death, but the credit cookie mentioned below reminded me of a posting I did three years ago, which seems to have vanished into electronic oblivion. So I'll resurrect it here. It was about [SPOILER!] "Best/Worst Blow-Jobs in a Non-Pornographic Film," an award I thought at the time I might bestow on Carlos Reygadas's "Battle in Heaven,"

which was on my top ten list in 2005 and not just because it opened with a five minute scene of the sad sack protagonist looking perfectly miserable as he's serviced by some babe. I knew the film would never get an Oscar, so I pitched this as a possible award category. As you will see if you happen to catch "The Hangover," that film could be in the running too. But it would face stiff competition from the following:

1) The dialectical oralism of Marco Bellocchio's "Devil in the Flesh," (1986) in which Maruschka Detmers services Federico Pitzalis while telling him the story of how Lenin snuck into St. Petersburg to start the Russian Revolution.

2) Michael Winterbottom's "Nine Songs" (2005) I can't remember the specifics, but they do everything else in the film, so I'm sure it happened and wasn't very good.

3) Hal Ashby's "Shampoo" (1975) , in which Warren Beatty gets a wash and rinse under a table.

4) George Roy Hill's "The World According to Garp" (1982), in which oral sex in a moving vehicle proves hard to swallow.

5) Any film by Catherine Breillat.

6) Vincent Gallo demonstrating that he's a head case with the help of Chloe Sevigny in "The Brown Bunny" (2004).

7) The biting irony of the original "The Last House on the Left"(1975).

I'm sure there are more. If so, keep them coming.

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tim jackson said:

In The Realm of the Senses is certainly missing here. A classicly rendered blow job delivered in stately Japanese fashion and artfully delivered fluids.

June 7, 2009 11:47 AM
The Cinema Guy said:

Among others - I Am Curious: Yellow; Intimacy; Fiona; Pola X; Carnal Knowledge; Fast Times (if vegetables count); and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (not overly explicit and "only thirty seconds" but certainly pivotal to the plot)...

June 9, 2009 9:03 AM
Wwhwdvrj said:

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June 26, 2009 9:16 PM

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