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Nude scenes. It feels like they have been part of the filmgoing experience for as long as any of us can remember. And that’s because they essentially date back to the Silent Era. We’re talking George Melies’ After the Ball in 1897. Trying to tackle the history of on-screen nudity would be, as you’d imagine, pretty daunting. But that hasn’t stopped the new documentary Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies .
There are a surprising number of famous Hollywood nude scenes included in the new documentary, covering everything from Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct to Dakota Johnson in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. The filmmakers really did their homework. But when we asked them during a recent press sit down just how many nude scenes they included, director Danny Wolf and executive producer Jim McBride (best known as Mr. Skin) were caught off guard, and guessed:
Danny Wolf: It’s gotta be 100 or so? At least 100 scenes of nudity, and we probably left out 40,000.Jim McBride: And it is male and female, we should point out. This is a history of nudity in the movies, male and female.
Yes, by narrowing their focus to the benchmark examples of male and female nudity in Hollywood, Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies still covers a ton of ground. The documentary gets roughly 55 different interviewees to sit down and discuss their experiences with on-screen nudity in the film industry. This dates as far back as Fast Times at Ridgemont High director Amy Heckerling analyzing the impact of Phoebe Cates’ strip tease by the swimming pool, up through Shannon Elizabeth discussing how she likely owes her career to being nude in American Pie .
And it sounds like an exaggeration, but when Skin director Danny Wolf jokes that there are 40,000 scenes they wanted to include but didn’t, you easily can rattle off a number of examples that don’t make the final cut of the documentary. Later in our interview, they mention trying to reach out to Jennifer Lawrence and Kathy Bates, as examples of actors who have experience with on-screen nudity that didn’t make it into the final cut of Skin . Maybe there’s room for a sequel.
We posted the trailer for Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies a few weeks back. Here it is again, if you missed it:
Skin features exclusive interviews with actors including Pam Grier ( Jackie Brown , Foxy Brown ) and Malcolm McDowell ( A Clockwork Orange, Caligula ) as well as directors Peter Bogdanovich ( The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon ), Kevin Smith ( Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Clerks ) and Heckerling ( Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless ). The movie will be available on demand beginning on August 18.
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Need a surefire way to get people interested in your movie? Tell them that, at one point or another, one or more of the film’s actresses gets naked. As lowbrow and sad as such a publicity hook may be, it’s damn near foolproof. For instance, the majority of dudes who’ve found the time to watch Sam Raimi ’s oft-forgotten 2000 thriller The Gift likely did so only because they’d heard about Katie Holmes ’ topless scene. Same goes for the amount of folks who braved the otherwise idiotic Swordfish just to check out Halle Berry ’s twins.
Viewing the disturbing new indie flick Compliance (opening in limited release tomorrow), however, we were struck by how unnerving it is to watch beautiful star Dreama Walker take her clothes off. Based on various real-life incidents, writer-director Craig Zobel ’s fascinating and subdued thriller shows the fallout (i.e., humiliation, sexual desecration, and moral bankruptcy) that results from a prankster ( Pat Healy ) calling a fast food joint, saying he’s a police officer, and instructing the eatery’s manager ( Ann Dowd ) to strip-search an employee (Walker) accused of robbery.
The situation gradually worsens, and Walker’s naked, helplessly vulnerable character gets put through the ringer. And there’s nothing sexy about it, much like the rest of the films included in our countdown of The 15 Most Uncomfortable Moments of Female Nudity in Movies .
Written by Matt Barone ( @MBarone )
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March 25, 2022, 6:00 PM · 6 min read
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“That’s not art. A striptease isn’t art. It’s too direct. It’s more direct than art.”
That line from Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” sums up a lot of feelings people seem to have about nudity in film as well. The history of painting and sculpture is full of nude portraiture, which is easily classified as art. But the nude scene in movies is rarely discussed alongside a Canova marble statue or Manet’s “Olympia.” Movies blur the boundaries between “real life” and artistic indirection so thoroughly that people discuss nude scenes in movies as practically everything but art. It’s “content” that deserves an “advisory.”
As many have noted, the very nature of their job demands that we look at actors. So when nudity enters the picture, it complicates the relationship between viewer and viewed. Are we invading their space? Are they invading ours? What should we feel about this? At times, it can be difficult not to write about onscreen nudity in anything but jokey terms.
Especially since nudity has become a fixture of comedy; punchlines are one of the few ways nudity is really used in mainstream entertainment today. It’s been a quarter-century from nudity being a central feature — and plot point — of what was then the most popular Hollywood film in decades: “ Titanic .” Bared skin in a similar manner in a top blockbuster in 2022 or any other recent year seems unthinkable.
But maybe we should take nudity seriously again. And a place to start is to look at the history of the nude scene since the silent era. The best nude scenes convey vulnerability, intimacy, eros, and so much more. Below is a timeline of the nude scene throughout cinema history. All are movies that wouldn’t have the same artistic impact without these moments.
Christian Blauvelt, Jude Dry, and Kate Erbland contributed to this story.
It may surprise today’s viewers just how liberated many silent films are in their depictions of sexuality. In the U.S., the self-censorship of the Hays Office wouldn’t come about until the late ‘20s (and wasn’t enforced at all until Joseph Breen took charge in 1934). Silent movies and early sound films have all manner of transgressive content. D.W. Griffith’s “Intolerance” features a full-on orgy with women wearing see-through fabrics or bathing in the nude. (Later on, during the Siege of Babylon, there’s a kiss between two men.) Some of that libertinism would pop up again in Griffith’s later “Orphans of the Storm,” and it would carry on through the early sound era with Claudette Colbert famously taking a nude bath (though only seen from the back) in asses’ milk in 1932’s “A Sign of the Cross.” But even a couple of decades earlier, Griffith was pushing boundaries in his own right. —CB
Peter Bogdanovich’s wistful black-and-white portrait of the end of an era for two high school seniors and longtime friends (Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottoms) remains best known as the hallmark of the director’s career. The film also launched the start of Cybill Shepherd’s career, when Bogdanovich’s then-wife Polly Platt thought Shepherd would be perfect for the role of Jacy Farrow, the smartest and prettiest girl in any room of the film’s declining northern Texas oil town.
But one scene got the film banned in part of the very state in which the film was set. After a Christmas dance, Jacy is invited to a skinny dipping party, uncomfortably undressing on the diving board as rowdy teens splash around below. Shepherd was 21 years old at the time of filming, but as her character is still in high school, this was met with ire from the public. “Last Picture Show” was actually deemed obscene by the city of Phoenix, requiring it to be judged by a federal court, which ultimately ruled the movie safe for viewing. Still, it was 1971, and so even the suggestion of nudity, let alone the full monty, managed to shock casual moviegoers. — RL
One of the most infamous sex scenes of the 1970s is a fugue of grief and hope. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie — neither overly eroticized with the lighting and staging here, and you would never confuse this for a porn film — seek solace in each other’s bodies after they’ve just had an epiphany about the death of their young daughter, who they’ve been mourning for months. It may be cinema’s greatest “sexual healing” scene, and the way director Nicolas Roeg intercuts their lovemaking with post-coital shots of them dressing and preparing to go out afterward somehow got it past censors in the U.S. and U.K. Salacious stories about Christie’s boyfriend Warren Beatty wanting control over the edit and rumors that the scene featured unsimulated sex dominated the narrative, but it’s really a deeply felt scene about two people finding hope in each other after the darkest time of their lives. —CB
Ah, nothing feels like summer more than pent-up hormones and a little red bikini. Judge Reinhold’s teen fantasy in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” includes an infamous topless moment featuring Phoebe Cates stripping off her teeny crimson two-piece. The 1982 classic film also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Penn, Forest Whitaker, Robert Romanus, and even a cameo by Nicolas Cage. Director Amy Heckerling made her feature debut with the dark comedy take on the pressures of adolescence; while Heckerling went on to helm the iconic (and nudity-free) “Clueless,” David Lynch reportedly was offered “Fast Times” first. And the film wasn’t Cates’ first time going “Fast.” She previously bared her breasts in “Paradise” when she was just 17. “The topless scene in ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ was funny, which made it easy,” Cates said in 1982 . “In this business, if a girl wants a career, she has to be willing to strip. If you’ve got a good bod, then why not show it?” Cates also revealed in 2018 during an interview with former co-star Leigh that it was “not that big of a deal,” per Leigh’s advice. Not a big to her, but a big deal in the history of bikini drops. —SB
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It may be the ultimate in high-collared, petticoat-wearing, “tennis anyone?” escapism, the Merchant-Ivory classic that’s basically what every British period drama on “Masterpiece Theatre” has aspired to be ever since. “A Room with a View” is also the greatest of its kind because it’s so much more than those twee trappings. Case in point: When Julian Sands, Rupert Graves, and the immortal Simon Callow strip naked and frolic in a shallow Surrey pond. “Let’s have a bathe!” Grave asks his companions. The full-frontal escapade is an example for the ages of letting loose and communing with nature, and of British cinema’s greater willingness to feature male nudity than that of the U.S, ever since Ken Russell’s “Women in Love” was a male nudity milestone in 1969. —CB
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