L’ARBRE DE GUERNICA (“The Guernica Tree”) Production: France/Italy, 1975 Director: Fernando Arrabal Category: Counter-Culture Arrabal’s bizarre and horrific retelling of the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, with some images of beautiful blasphemy that include blowing up and pissing on Christ, and a dwarf smearing semen on the lips Continue Reading
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ANTI-CLIMAX
ANTI-CLIMAX Production: Mexico, 1969 Director: Gelsen Gas Category: Counter-Culture Gas was a painter, poet, theatre director, sculptor and inventor who directed this one film only, a succession of surrealistic visual enigmas inflamed by a constant undertow of sexual and political agitation involving public transport, an industrial factory whose machines spew Continue Reading
THE LAST MOVIE
THE LAST MOVIE Production: USA, 1970-71 Director: Dennis Hopper Category: Drugs/Experimental Posted by The Purple Gas
ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO
ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO Production: USA, 1969 Director: Robet Thom Re-release title: Cult Of The Damned Category: Freak Scene Psychedelic trash about a rock star and his sidekicks; he rapes a fat girl and seduces the rest of her family (of both genders), before killing two of them. It bombed, so Continue Reading
DE MINDER GELUKKIGE TERUGKEER VAN JOSZEF KATUS NAAR HET LAND VAN REMBRANDT
DE MINDER GELUKKIGE TERUGKEER VAN JOSZEF KATUS NAAR HET LAND VAN REMBRANDT (“The Unfortunate Joszef Katus Returns To The Land Of Rembrandt”) Production: NL, 1966 Director: Wim Verstappen Category: New Wave/Counter-Culture The first collaboration between director Verstappen and producer Pim de la Parra, also regarded as the first major film of the Continue Reading