So, apparently no one is interested in discussing Zardoz. How about Ken Russell's Women in Love?

[scarletwoman]

If you've seen it, you know there is one scene in particular that is one of the most unforgettable scenes in all filmdom. Not that there aren't plenty of other amazing scenes in this movie...

[scarletwoman]

1. Come on, folks. Surely SOMEONE has seen Women in Love!

Glenda Jackson? Alan Bates? Oliver Reed? Good grief! An amazing cast like that and no one knows about it???

[Aristus]

2. I haven't seen this one, but I may know of the scene you're talking about.

Harlan Ellison mentioned it in his book of film reviews. Makes me curious to see it, despite Ellison's description of that scene.

It must be very...um...off-putting...

[scarletwoman]

3. Oh, you MUST see this movie!

Really.

I have no idea what Harlan Ellison may have said, but don't let it put you off. I was big fan of Harlan Ellison back in my sci-fi reading days, but that was in the 70s, and I don't know if he's someone whose opinions I would agree with these days.

As far as "the scene" goes, I have always thought it was one of the most amazingly sensuous scenes in film ever. It's so visually gorgeous, and so intense - it's hard to imagine how they managed to pull it off at all. Again, being able to listen to the director's commentary on the DVD is extremely valuable - and humorous, too.

"The scene" is just a piece of the whole, and the whole is so sensuous, so exposed, so raw and unflinching, I can't imagine anyone really taking it in not being profoundly affected by it.

Just see it for Alan Bates' fig commentary alone!

[Aristus]

4. When I've had a chance to see it, I'll pop back in

with my impressions...

[scarletwoman]

5. Thank you, that would be great.

And I don't care if you end up not liking it. It would just be a pleasure to converse with someone else who has seen it.

[Aristus]

6. I have fairly eclectic tastes in film.

And not a lot of people who share those interests.

[scarletwoman]

7. I can totally relate.

[valerief]

14. I haven't seen it in eons. Tried to rent from Netflix and Amazon. Not available. nt

[scarletwoman]

15. I bought the DVD from Amazon some years ago.

It was one the movies I wanted to have in my permanent collection.

[Little_Wing]

8. Absolutely saw it!

The English auteurs of the 60s-70s confuse me. Is it because I was a second-wave feminist? So many amazing women acting their asses off, so many confused male directors. But Russell seemed to really try to fully realize his female actors. Have to give him props for his energy. Still, Women in Love was very brave.

Watching this in a theatre was a collective experience, and followed by much discussion. Who makes movies like this anymore?

[scarletwoman]

9. Interestly, the second time I saw this movie was at St. Catherine's University, a Catholic women's

college in St. Paul, Minnesota sometime in the very early 70s. (The first time I saw it was in a theater when it was first released in 1969.)

Glenda Jackson was absolutely amazing - just totally unbound.

Who makes movies like this anymore?

No one, as far as I can tell...

[Little_Wing]

10. Jackson was such a fine actor

She apparently opted to enjoy a private life. She is missed! The first time you see her, you look for her in every other film she made. So many women from that time just disappeared. It was so great to see Jacqueline Bisset back in the spotlight recently.

[scarletwoman]

11. She didn't exactly disappear, she became a member of Parliament.

She retired from acting, and became an outspoken leftist Labour MP.

Check this out: Glenda Jackson on the death of Margaret Thatcher: 'I had to speak out to stop history being re-written'

[Little_Wing]

12. Of course! Hardly private...

Just not shared with us via the big screen. Thanks for the link.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. One of my favorites n/t