3 NUTS IN SEARCH OF A BOLT Production: USA, 1964 Director: Tommy Noonan Category: Sex Farce Pseudo-nudie screwball farce, notable only for including the sensational Mamie Van Doren who appears nude on screen for the first time, albeit in an extremely brief bubble-bath scene. Noonan doubtless got the idea after acting in Promises Promises Continue Reading
INABA NO SHIROSAGI
INABA NO SHIROSAGI (“The White Rabbit Of Inaba”) Production: Japan, 1970 Director: Kato Yoshihiro Category: Documentary/Experimental Kato was co-founder with Shinichi Iwata of Zero Dimension (Zero Jigen), the notorious street performance sect who scandalized 60s Tokyo with nude street interventions and garish “art terror ceremonies”. Inaba No Shirosagi documents the history Continue Reading
KYONETSU NO KISETSU
KYONETSU NO KISETSU (“Season Of Wild Passion”) Production: Japan, 1960 Director: Kurahara Koreyoshi English language release title: The Warped Ones Category: Juvenile Delinquency Posted by Lady Belladonna
THE BLACK ZOO
THE BLACK ZOO Production: USA, 1963 Alternative title: Horrors Of The Black Zoo Director: Robert Gordon Category: Horror Posted by Moonchild Zero
ALLIGATOR
ALLIGATOR Production: USA, 1980 Director: Lewis Teague Category: Horror Chicago citizens are eaten alive by a giant (36-foot) alligator that emerges from the sewers, pumped up on growth hormones; one of the best giant predator films. The primal terror of being eaten alive by these relentless killing machines resurfaced in Continue Reading
AIMEZ-VOUS DES FEMMES? + 1
AIMEZ-VOUS LES FEMMES? (“Do You Like Women?”) Production: France, 1964 Director: Jean Léon Category: Cannibalism LA TRISTESSE DES ANTHROPOPHAGES (“The Sorrow Of The Cannibals”) Production: France, 1966 Director: Jean-Denis Bonan Category: Coprophilia A scatological absurdity that depicts a gourmet restaurant where the chefs serve up platters of steaming excrement squeezed hot from Continue Reading
ZEFIRO TORNA
ZEFIRO TORNA Production: USA, 1992 Director: Jonas Mekas Category: Documentary Dedicated “to the wind of Lithuania”, this is Mekas’ elegy for George Maciunas, his countryman and the leading Fluxus artist, a memorial in film clips from 1952 to 1978. Maciunas (1931–1978) organized the first Fluxus event in 1961 at the Continue Reading
MALE AND FEMALE SINCE ADAM AND EVE
MALE AND FEMALE SINCE ADAM AND EVE Production: USA/Argentina, 1961 Director: Carlos Rinaldi Alternative title: Souls Of Sin Category: Sex Exploitation Posted by Cyanide Queen
LA DONNA SCIMMIA
LA DONNA SCIMMIA (“The Monkey Woman”) Production: Italy, 1963 Director: Marco Ferreri Category: Freaks Based on the real-life story of “Gorilla Woman” Julia Pastrana (born Mexico 1832), a hypertrichosis (excessive body hair) sufferer whose corpse was mummified by husband/promotor Theodore Lent and toured around Europe in a glass coffin. Posted Continue Reading
THE VIPERS + 1
THE VIPERS Production: NL, 1955 Director: Shinkichi Tajiri Category: Experimental/Drugs A short, experimental film shot on 16mm by Tajiri – a Dutch-American sculptor of Japanese ancestry – which won a prize at Cannes for its innovations in the language of film. At around 9 minutes, The Vipers is an early trip Continue Reading