Movies
Series 4
Series 4 by Normand Grégoire, National Film Board of Canada
Caution: some bare, false-color bosoms presented in a trippy manner.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 30, 2014 -
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Category: Movies, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Surrealism, 1970s
Doomsday Flight
The movie is apparently pretty good. So good, in fact, that it soon earned an odd place in film history as The Movie Too Dangerous For The Public To See. Whenever it was shown, it inspired a slew of copycat bomb hoaxes, eventually leading the FAA, in 1971, to send a letter to TV stations, requesting that they never show it again. The FAA's letter warned that "the film may have a highly emotional impact on some unstable individual and stimulate him to imitate the fictional situation in the movie."
TV stations honored the FAA's request, and to my knowledge have never aired it again. It eventually was released on VHS (Available on Amazon
), and there may be a DVD of it available (though not on Netflix). But you won't see it on TV.You can find a fuller version of this movie's history here and here.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 30, 2014 -
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Category: Movies, 1960s
Dog Factory
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 16, 2014 -
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Category: Movies, Technology, Dogs, 1900s
Vandora, the Supervan
Watch for louche poet Charles Bukowski at 1:22.
You get the theme song in the next clip. Whole film can be streamed at Amazon. IMDB entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 07, 2014 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, Movies, Pop Art, 1970s
Stayin Alive aka Fight For Your Life
Surely the re-release of this fine film would help clarify and resolve the fraught state of race relations in the USA today.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 04, 2014 -
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Category: Hillbillies, Country Bumpkins, Ruralism and Flyover Country, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Racism, 1970s
Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 17, 2014 -
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Category: Aliens, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1950s, Dance
Pierre and Candy
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 10, 2014 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Movies, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Children, 1960s
O Dreamland
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 03, 2014 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Movies, Avant Garde, 1950s
Chappaqua
Yes, this is the 60s as nearly as I recall them.
If you like the trailer for Chappaqua, whole movie below.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 30, 2014 -
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Category: Addictions, Movies, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Sea of Grass Land Company
Back in 1947, MGM gave away one-acre plots of land located in Valencia County, New Mexico to 689 different movie critics, editors, and publishers throughout the country. It was a publicity stunt to promote the movie The Sea of Grass, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and directed by Elia Kazan.Of course, the land was barren desert, running alongside a Santa Fe railway line. So it wasn't worth much.
But I wonder what's become of those one-acre plots today. Have they risen in value? Did any of the recipients hold onto the land, paying the taxes year after year, and passing it on to their heirs?
As for the movie, director Elia Kazan said in his autobiograpy, "It's the only picture I've ever made that I'm ashamed of. Don't see it."
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 16, 2014 -
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Category: Movies, Publicity Stunts, 1940s
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