Title: Iris
Released: 2001
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 91 min
Country: UK / USA
Language: English

Tagline: Her greatest talent was for life

Plot Summary: Iris, based on the life of revered British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch, is a story of unlikely yet enduring love. As a young academic, teaching philosophy at Oxford, Murdoch (Kate Winslet/Judi Dench) meets and eventually falls in love with fellow professor John Bayley (Hugh Bonneville/Jim Broadbent), a man whose awkwardness seems in stark opposition to the spirited self-confidence of his future wife. The story unfolds as snippets of time, seen through Bayley's eyes. He recalls their first encounter over 40 years ago, activities they enjoyed doing together, and Iris' charismatic and individualistic personality. These images portray Murdoch as a vibrant young woman with great intellect and are contrasted with the novelist's later life, after the effects of Alzheimer's disease have ravaged her. Murdoch's great mind deteriorates until she is reduced to a mere vestige of her former self, unable to perform simple tasks and completely reliant on her at times frustrated yet devoted husband.

Comments: Shattering. This episodic story of Iris Murdoch, best selling novelist, and her husband John Bayley, is not for the faint-hearted. There are no illusions here, and those that seem to exist are shattered by grim reality.
The film pulls no punches, showing Iris as a self-absorbed, stream-of-consciousness woman who becomes ill with Alzheimer's disease. Her husband, in sickness and in health, seems to always be a step behind her. However, he is enthralled with her - totally devoted and ultimately alone.
Yet, this portrait is beautiful and episodic, filled with symbolism, wonderful flashbacks, and the threads of a relationship built and undone. The four leads are just wonderful, with Jim Broadbent deservedly receiving an Oscar for his performance. Superb cinematography, editing, and direction support the actors and the great script. Highly recommended. I give it 9 out of 10.

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Scene Description: Kate Winslet seen nude underwater as she skinny dips with her lover in this title sequence.

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Scene Description: Kate Winslet seen nude underwater.

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Scene Description: Kate Winslet popping up out of the water nude, giving us a nice view of her breasts, then seen naked from behind as she emerges from the water, and finally seen completely nude from the side as she drips dry.

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Scene Description: Kate Winslet seen nude running and jumping into the water - and then seen naked swimming around underwater with her lover.

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Scene Description: Kate Winslet topless on top of a guy, riding him.

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Title: Heavenly Creatures
Released: 1994
Genre: Drama / Romance
Runtime: 99 min / USA:108 min (uncut version)
Country: UK / Germany / New Zealand
Language: English

Tagline: The true story of a crime that shocked a nation.

Plot Summary: Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.

Comments: A brilliant movie which shows the true story of a crime that shocked a nation.
Before Peter Jackson got into showing us how good a movie maker he was with the Lord of The Rings trilogy, he had made a very good movie 10 years ago, called Heavenly Creatures, an ironic title, as the people that we meet here are anything but 'Heavenly'. This is a truly unbelievable movie, as it shows two very unique friends, and how far they would go, to keep from being separated.

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Scene Description: Kate Winslet completely nude in the bathtub.

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Title: Holy Smoke
Released: 1999
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Runtime: 115 min
Country: USA / Australia
Language: English

Tagline: He had only one thing on his mind... but so did she!

Plot Summary: While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron (Winslet) falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters (Keitel), a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth!

Comments: This is a well crafted black comedy that will have you laughing when you really feel you shouldn't, and sympathising with characters you're trying hard to hate. Winslet and Keitel are superb as spoilt brat and sleazy father figure respectively, the viewer flicks regularly between pity and contempt for each; together with a wonderful white trash supporting cast and a cinematographer who just loves juxtaposing the OTT beauty of the Oz outback with the equally OTT interiors (and dress sense) of their middle class subjects. Apart from the appalingly tacked on epilogue this film was so much more than I expected, go rent it now.

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Scene Description: Kate Winslet seen completely nude as she walks towards a guy, then we see them having sex, and finally we see Kate lying nude next to him before sitting up in bed to give us a nice look at her breasts.

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Title: Jude
Released: 1996
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 123 min
Country: UK
Language: English

Tagline: His World Could Never Change... Until She Became His World.

Plot Summary: A stonemason steadfastly pursues a cousin he loves in this adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel. However their love is troubled as he is married to a woman who tricks him into marriage and she is married to an abusive nobleman. Living out of wedlock, the two are rejected by the townspeople leaving them to struggle in abject poverty.

Comments: Lovely but dark.This is one of my favorite books by Thomas Hardy, so I rented this with trepidation- usually I'm let down by filmic adaptations, but in this case I was pleasantly surprised. Well, as pleasantly surprised as one can be for an unpleasant and difficult story such as this. It's a brutal experience, but worth going through, and all the actors are marvelous indeed. But save it for a night when you want a good cry, or just to feel sorry for yourself. It won't (or will) disappoint!

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Scene Description: Kate Winslet removing her nightgown to reveal her fully nude body to a guy and then laying there for a bit showing off herself and getting him to take his clothes off. He then gets on top of her and takes a moment to suck hard on each one of her breasts and nipples before kissing her and starting to have sex in a longer and much higher quality version of her infamous nude love scene from Jude.

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Title: Titanic
Released: 1997
Genre: Drama / Romance
Runtime: 194 min
Country: USA
Language: English / French / German / Swedish

Tagline: Nothing On Earth Could Come Between Them.

Plot Summary: Its name stirs the imagination... Titanic. The unsinkable ship. The unimaginable catastrophe. The untold stories that lay in mystery two and a half miles beneath the waves of the North Atlantic. What buried tale of love, bravery, treasure and treachery, hidden by time and tragedy, waits here to be discovered? A beautiful socialite. A penniless artist. A priceless diamond. A romance so passionate that nothing on earth could stop it. A destiny so incredible that no one could have imagined it. A collision of lives that could only have happened on Titanic, the ship of dreams. The secrets are about to unfold...

Comments: Striking motion picture in every department, from the stunning visual effects right down to Gloria Stuart's wonderful performance of an aged survivor of the 1912 disaster where over 1,500 lives were lost. Winner 11 Academy Awards, including the Best Picture of 1997. What else can be said...other than masterpiece!

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Scene Description: Kate Winslet laying on a couch fully nude while posing for a sketch.

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Title: Hideous Kinky
Released: 1998
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 98 min
Country: UK / France / Morocco
Language: English / French / Arabic

Tagline: It's not just an adventure... It's a love affair.

Plot Summary: Hideous Kinky is set in a time about 30 years ago when it was not uncommon for young British free-thinkers to cross into the next continent with virtually nothing in their pockets. They left their proper schooling and part-time jobs behind to make their trek into a poor, desert country in Africa in search of themselves and their spirituality. And so this story begins with a young English hippie woman who has brought her two young daughters with her on her journey. Though the book is narrated by the youngest of the two daughters, it is not yet clear that this is so in the screenplay version of Hideous Kinky.

Comments: Delightful surprise! I never understand what other people look for in films so I never quite understand negative reviews of quality movies. To me, I just love it when a story comes at me out of nowhere, like it does in Hideous Kinky, and dishes up characters I have to work at to understand. I also love photography, especially when someone goes to obvious great lengths to put together breathtaking scenes. Kate Winslet is stunning to watch, as always, and her character is artfully portrayed with both painful honesty and dignity. The two little girls, played by Bella Riza and Carrie Mullan, absolutely stole every scene they were in and the movie is probably worth watching just for the two of them being in it. Hideous Kinky is a great example of what good storytelling is all about and I give the director, Gillies MacKinnon, a perfect "10" for the effort.

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Scene Description: Kate Winslet's lovely bare breasts shaking as she lays in bed topless while a guy feeds her fruit.

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