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Post by wmcclain on Dec 15, 2017 15:29:47 GMT
I don't know if this is a recognized film genre, or even how to define it exactly. I'll just give a few examples.
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 15, 2017 15:30:28 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 15, 2017 15:31:13 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 15, 2017 15:32:02 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 15, 2017 15:32:44 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 15, 2017 15:33:23 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 15, 2017 16:02:42 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 15, 2017 16:18:22 GMT
Interesting topic (and great posts), wm. And I think I know what you mean, but I can't quite put my finger on a genre name, if there is one. Also, these kinds of fillms, generally speaking, were not my cup of tea in their day, so I'm not sure I can contribute much. But you've really intrigued me, and I'm going to ponder it awhile. Whatever else they were, they were certainly anti-establishment films - but that would put them in the same category as films like EASY RIDER, which I doubt is what you're looking for. Hmmm. . .I have to think about this one. . . I like these better now than I would have at the time. The passage of years lends perspective. All my examples are comedies. They are satirical, but either pointless or just unfocused as to their targets. Strange projects all. |
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 15, 2017 16:22:23 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 15, 2017 16:26:18 GMT
The Fearless Vampire Killers?
Bedazzled? (the one with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)
Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment?
Magical Mystery Tour?
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 15, 2017 16:26:35 GMT
Easy Rider, etc: Those are more dramatic or exploitation genre than I intended, but they may be coming from a similar space. On the dramatic side: Drive, He Said (1971) |
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 15, 2017 16:45:09 GMT
These films might have drawn from Ernie Kovacs, The Goon Show, A Hard Day's Night, and Help!
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 15, 2017 16:49:57 GMT
The Wrong Box
What's New, Pussycat?
Casino Royale
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 15, 2017 19:32:19 GMT
Czechoslovakian mid sixties Freakout ... Sedmikrásky , Daisies (1966) Vera Chytilová Two girls named Marie try to understand the meaning of the world and their life. This original freewheeling, madcap feminist farce when released was immediately banned by the government.  |
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Post by teleadm on Dec 15, 2017 19:43:25 GMT
Great subject, Head with Monkees is just crazy, Victor Matures hair???
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 15, 2017 19:45:04 GMT
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Post by vegalyra on Dec 15, 2017 21:55:26 GMT
Awesome thread. Here's an obscure one, it was mostly a sexploitation film (I guess that's what you'd call it), but there was a scene where some folks drop some acid and it gets trippy really quickly.... The Curious Female - it's notable for an appearance of Angelique Pettyjohn. Outside of that, not notable at all.   |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 16, 2017 2:41:41 GMT
I was thinking of Putney Swope just yesterday when noticing a thread on the Film General board, "What are some good absurdist movies?" I like the terminology, "1960s Freakout Films," and I suppose there's bound to be some overlap between the two. If I had to choose, I'd say PS leans more toward "absurdist." Given the decade you've specified, there's another term that probably figures into both: "Counterculture." Although filmed in 1970 (released in the U.S. in spring of '71), Milos Forman's Taking Off may not technically qualify, but its sensibilities are pure late-'60s, and the "freakout" angle comes from a generational point of view differing from those of most others representing your category. In so doing, it now presents a subversive aspect that mostly escaped me when first seeing it back then at the age of 18. Hard to find now (at least in the U.S.) primarily due to music licensing issues, it's worth catching if one can, and provides major roles for some who normally didn't get such opportunities: Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry...  ...along with others prior to the cusp of their fame: Audra Lindley and Paul Benedict...  ...Georgia Engel...  ...Vincent Schiavelli...  ...along with some faces already well-known...  ...soon to be...  ...or eventually to be:  |
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 16, 2017 3:09:56 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 16, 2017 4:48:36 GMT
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) Poland, Wojciech Has " by any standard a long strange trip" Village Voice The "mindbending" qualities apparently were a huge influence on counter culture musician Jerry Garcia. He cited the film as his favourite. In the face of the dramatic absurdities of 60s life and with so much.disenchantment of the world, here was a film about the enchantment of man. Garcia instigated a restoration project of the full film in the 1990s. Simultaneously erotic, demonic, supernatural and funny, the amazing 3hour film is a disorienting labyrinth of receding stories that loop back on themselves eventually resolve, only to dissolve again, a film with five levels of flashback... 
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