I saw this movie when it came out...I kind of liked it.

I don't understand what is so surprising about the scene...you do know that Jodie Foster and Woody Allen are actors here, and that this isn't a candid photo of their actual lovemaking?

Personally I thought "Nim's Island" was far more shocking and dismaying than this picture.

I don't understand what is so surprising about the scene

I know you're engaging in your standard pretend-to-be-an-idiot pose, but it's surprising for many reasons:

1. The female-to-male nipple lick is a rarity in movies.

2. Even if you knew you were going to see it in a movie, you wouldn't expect the recipient to be a 57 year-old nebbish.

3. Even if you knew you were going to see it delivered to a 57-year-old nebbish, there are several middle-aged nebbishes you'd likely expect before Woody Allen.

4. Even if you knew Woody Allen was going to be the recipient, there are many actresses you'd expect to see delivering it before you'd guess Jodie Foster. This is the only movie of his she's ever appeared in (I believe). And she's barely in it—she just shows up to lick his nipple and leave. Finally, she tends to be an especially cerebral performer, so it's not what you're expecting from her no matter who the recipient is.

5. It's odd to see given he's the director, which inevitably makes you wonder whether at one point his direction was: "in the next take, please lick my left nipple." And then after she did it, did he immediately shout "Cut...and print!" Or if it wasn't his direction, did she lick his nipple in every take? Or in just one take, and he decided that was the one to use? Etc.

6. It's in black and white.

this is only going to fan speculation that woody liked paul better than john.

and THAT is only going to fan public confusion over who raised a weapon to which celebrity for whom, 30 years ago.

Comment by Jonathan Schwarz at May 31, 2011 05:37 PM....... I love it!

ps I thought, the expression on his face seemed to say, "What the heck is she doing?"

Shadows and Fog is based on Allen's play Death which has pretty much the same story without the faux-Brechtian, period-flick, Expressionist-cinema pastiche thang going on, and consequently is much better. The script is included in his collection Without Feathers along with some of his best prose pieces and the script to another play God which is a Greek tragedy send-up.

*cough*

...if you're interested.

Yes, I could have lived without this, I wish I had never seen it. You have ruined my life forever.

However I loved your last post about the flag which resembles a pair of pajamas.

Even more surprising: right after she licked his nipple she said "these pretzels are making me thirsty!" But that apparently was later edited out, alas.

I was listening to a call-in radio show about IMF guy's case and all things related to it. A woman called and said that when she was young she had a lot of affairs with rich, powerful older men, because they are extremely 'virile'.

Now, it's true that Woody Allen, as I see him on the screen, doesn't exactly radiate virility, but, hey, what do I know?

Lookin' good, Woody. Often white men do not age well.

"White men do not age well."

Thank you for this wonderful insights, it is so marvelous I would not have thought it afore.

Keep up the great work!

You people do realize that he's always made a point of being funny-looking, right? I was about to say, "At least he's got his hair," but after doing a quick image search I'm not quite certain what's going on with that.

Oh, Rob.

I lerve it. I luff it.

"Often white men do not age well."

Yeah, but have you seen old white women? Gross.

My favorite hot old white woman is Emmylou Harris.

Speaking of surprises, the first new post in two years has gone up at my eponymous blog. It's a continuation of a discussion here on which the week allowed for adding comments had elapsed.

http://mistahcharley.blogspot.com/2011/06/finding-way-past-destruction.html

Emmylou, also lookin' good.

Unfortunately, his erotic film "Got Woody" never came to fruition...