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"is it still raining? I hadn't noticed"
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 6:00PM 
"April Showers," our series celebrating shower scenes of any kind, returns April 3rd, weeknights at 11 PM. Any requests?
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 6:00PM
Reader Comments (23)
Blue Valentine! And hey, it's having it's five year anniversary this year. Reason enough for a re-appraisal.
"Pride & Prejudice" - the gazebo scene where Darcy proposes and Elizabeth refuses. A lot of rain and a lot of tension.
The last three or four minutes of Stella Dallas (1937) or the rain scene in Acapulco in Out of the Past (1947).
I like a good Silkwood shower
Glenn Close in The Big Chill.
DePalma has provided enough for a career retrospective, but my vote goes to "Phantom of the Paradise" and the completely gratuitous "Psycho" homage.
James Bond comforting a distraught Vesper in the shower in Casino Royale. That gesture where he licks her fingers. Sexy but also incredibly sweet.
and oh, the last scene between Meryl and Clint in The Bridges of Madison County where she has to force herself not to run out into the rain and jump in Clint's car. Still makes me misty eyed.
Magnolia of course, for the surreal rain of frogs. Or you could go French and bleak with Jeanne Moreau in Frantic, wandering around Paris at night, heartbroken because she thinks her lover has abandoned her after killing her husband. The divisive American Beauty has both a shower and a rain scene. Or you could go recast/reboot with Daniel Craig and Eva Green in Casino Royale, which is probably my favorite shower scene, if only because I'm a sucker for callous men and women finding unexpected emotions they're not prepared for.
Gone Girl, of course.
I second the Pride and Prejudice gazebo scene.
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Shawshank Redemption
Waterloo Bridge
Goldeneye
@Paul ohhhh that Stella Dallas scene kills me.
Seeing as Glenn Close might finally be getting decent movie roles again (I think?), why not Glenn Close in The Big Chill?
And maybe you could preview/highlight her upcoming work?
And she's going to be in your April Fools predictions, right? I mean, RIGHT???? You willed Julianne Moore to an Oscar. So, why not show Glenn some love?
No one ever talks about The Year of Living Dangerously, and there's not enough Sigourney Weaver on this blog.
MATCH POINT//SEX UNDER THE RAIN//HOT!!!!!!
Oh, God, Andie McDowell's line delivery in that movie is just...ugh. (To be fair though it *is* an impossibly square line anyway. Who writes that, let alone says it?)
My vote would be for Holly Hunter in Home for the Holidays or Anne Heche in Psycho. (I need a little more Anne Heche in my life.)
Charlie G -- what film would she be in my prredix for?
These scenarios are quite dark:
Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten at the climax of Portrait of Jennie
Jack Lemmon searching the greenhouse in Days of Wine and Roses
Jessica Lange saying goodbye to her dad in Frances
The prisoners' invasion in The Prince of Tides
April showers bring May glowers
Not a shower scene per say, but a sponge bath should suffice: My Beautiful Laundrette.
Un mas: The finale of The Goodbye Girl
"I love you."
"Never mind that. You're rusting my guitar."
Jarhead
@ NATHANIEL R - Yeah, The Wife is probably 2016, right? And she really only has ensemble pieces coming out in 2015. So, just consider my request as a precursor for 2016, unless you think her supporting performances for 2015 might be award worthy.