Crash (1996)Ĭommentator: David Cronenberg (director, writer)ġ. Keep reading to see what I heard on David Cronenberg’s Crash commentary via the Criterion Collection. So yeah, Cronenberg’s 1996 masterpiece Crash seems like a good pick for this week’s Commentary column.
Cronenberg has a new movie playing at Cannes called Crimes of the Future, and it seems we can’t go a day without someone lamenting the presence of sex scenes in films and television. There’s a lot going on in the news these days, but if we were to pluck two seemingly unrelated strands out of the daily discourse we might end up with David Cronenberg and the topic of sex scenes in movies. In this edition, Rob Hunter celebrates sex scenes in movies and revisits David Cronenberg’s Crash. It’s not super explicit, but it’s homo love with a capital H.Welcome to Commentary Commentary, where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts.
Our top gay-for-pay sex scene is from Ang Lee’s masterpiece, Brokeback Mountain, a film that not only united two of Hollywood’s hottest actors at the time, in the flesh, but changed the face of mainstream gay portrayals with its bravery. Jake Gyllenhall and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain Now here are two straight actors not to work hard for the money.ġ. The voiceover on this clip is pretty sad and there’s a murder near the end, but we’re pretty happy about the action going down between Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan. This elongated sex scene, interspersed with some icky heterosexuality, is hardly explicit but it feels mighty real.Ģ. Daniel Day Lewis in My Beautiful Laundretteĭespite his dodgy haircut, Daniel Day Lewis’s cheeky chappy Johnny is naughty but nice in this comedy from Stephen Frears. Forget the voiceover conversation and concentrate on Bradley playing it for all he’s worth, with his socks on.ģ. Long before he became hot Hollywood property, beautiful Bradley had a supporting role in this summer camp ‘comedy’.
Bradley Cooper in Wet Hot American Summer Skip to 03:50 in this clip for the action!Ĥ. Twilight hottie Robert Pattinson plays surrealist Salvador Dalí in this film about the gay poet, Federico García Lorca, and he isn’t shy about exploring his gay side in plenty of gay scenes between the pair. Standing beside each other Clive Owen and Lothaire Bluteau make each other come with just a bit of verbal. This is an odd one out, given that its set in a Nazi concentration camp and the characters never touch. Jim Carrey in I Love You, Philip Morrisįunny man, Jim gives it his all in this high-octane fucking scene from this crazy comedy, in which Ewan McGregor also played gay.
In this scene Michael gives him a blow job, but later things get a lot more explicit.ħ. Of course this high camp biopic starred straight ex sex-addict Michael Douglas as Liberace, but we all went to see it because Matt Damon got his gay on, like, big time. The film is a yawn-fest, but the sex scenes wake you up! Leo is a pretty little top in this clip from the not-so-great Total Eclipse, playing the author Arthur Rimbaud having a steamy affair with his mentor, Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). The story of a married gay man who must come out to his wife ( Charlie’s Angel, Kate Jackson), it featured then big star, Harry Hamlin, straight off Clash of the Titans, taking a big risk by not only playing gay, but shagging the bones off an equally hot Michael Ontkean. Arthur Hiller fought hard to make this film, which was turned down by every major studio. We’ve picked this one because it’s super ground-breaking.
Most mainstream films with gay characters have straights playing the parts, but with so many heterosexual stars doing the same-sex nasty, what are the very best gay-for-pay sex scenes of all time? We’ve trawled the sets of Hollywood for our favourites.