take 36: 22.5.2013

Tai's Psychadelic Movie Experience

A caleidoscope of Secret Movies as a Birthday Present.

Doors open: 20h

Film Start: 20h15  

NO SHOW

15 May NO SHOW !!!

take 35: 8.5.2013

FRENCH SEX 1970 

A Pop Art Experience with Anna Karina and Jane Birkin.

Doors open: 20h

 

20h30, France 1970, 80 min. french with english subs

 

In this murder drama with strong sci-fi undertones, Max cares for a mystery girl after she is involved in a riding mishap. She accidentally witnesses a videotaped murder and is marked for elimination by the killer. When the killer goes after Max, the girl races to give him information that can identify him.

22h: France 1970, 81min. french, english, german

I love it when European directors try to wrap their heads around America in the Sixties. I’m thinking of Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point, Godard’s Sympathy For The Devil and the film I’m sharing here, Henry Chapier’s Sex-Power. Revolution has never been sexier, more romantic, existential or just plain goofy when seen through the prism of the nouvelle vague.

Sex-Power is a sweet bit of candy-colored psychedelic fluff with an astringent dose of agit-prop militancy in its chewy center. While most of the film is in English there is occasional French dialog without the benefit of English subtitles, but you hardly need to know French to get the gist of what is happening. This is the tale of a young Frenchman who arrives in Northern California looking to forget a lost love (Jane Birkin) and ends up encountering various forms of feminine power as embodied by Bernadette Lafonte as Salome and Catherine Marshall as “la fille moderne.” The film moves through space and time in an impressionistic, lysergic dreaminess.

Directed by film critic and journalist Henry Chapier in 1970, Sex-Power has a lovely soundtrack by Vangelis and luscious cinematography by Edmond Richard.

Released the same year as El Topo and Zabriskie Point, Chapier’s film has some striking desert imagery that can’t help but recall those films. More than likely a case of cosmic synchronicity as opposed to influence, given they were all made at the same time. (dangerousminds.net)

 

take 34. 1.5.2013

Movies for Stone-throwers

Doors open: 19h

19h- 20h

BarAnimationRussia (BAR)

 

20h15

Hungary 2000, 73 min. english subs

 Frau Plastic Chicken is the host of a popular exploitation television show called NeXXt, which serves up a variety of deviant behavior for the amusement of her viewing audience. While the hostess has arranged for a live broadcast of the arrest of Rex Madison, a notorious multiple murderer, Frau Plastic Chicken wants something even splashier for her audience, so she schedules a post-arrest interview spot, in which Madison will discuss his crimes with Alexander Grushkin, a man who claims to have been the inspiration for the character of Alex in the novel A Clockwork Orange.

So far it’s one of the most scandalous and antinomic Hungarian movies ever made.
It’s a bizarre satiric comedy and it was presented on the Hungarian Movie Week that year. So many people were shocked at the brutal scenes and bare style.
The story is a mix of American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange and the author-director’s own ideas, so partly stolen, simple but original everyhow.

This is the censored version and it doesn’t contain some brutal scenes. More than half an hour (!) is missing from the originally, uncut, 116 minute movie  - but yet there are some ’not too presentable’ actions in this version –
It hasn’t been released yet on DVD - and unfortunately, the uncut version is not available too

It’s not an amateur movie, a lot of famous Hungarian actors play in it. On the other hand, one of my favourite Hungarian movies but I know in Hungary many people can’t understand this movie, many people hate it, but many people think it’s an art film.

 

22h

Australia 1993, 80 min.

 It's a sunny day in suburbia. Suddenly a hideously deformed dying man disrupts the peace, crashing his car in a Pebbles Court neighbourhood, the better part of Homesville. He's the victim of the experimental drug Vimuville, marketed as a "dietary supplement" which has apparently malfunctioned. He has arrived too late to warn the population of Homesville not to try the pill that was dropped in their mailbox by a respectable pharmaceutical company. 

'Body Melt' is one of the most misunderstood Australian movies of all time! Director Philip Brophy, who has a background in avante garde electronic music and performance art, has created a wicked subversion of splatter movies. The film is all the better for having many Aussie soap stars and familiar faces in its cast, a fact that will probably be completely lost on overseas viewers. Just imagine your own "beloved" family favourites in the main roles and you might start to see what Brophy's done here.

Well, it isn't like Braindead. It's something new, something extremely unique and original. Really impressive if you ask me, and a whole lot of fun. I loved the inbred family, loved the "over-the-top" gore effects.

There is one thing that not many have mentioned yet, this film is clever. It isn't just some empty splatter film, it has personality and style. We never really get to know the characters that well, but it tells a good story just as well.

Oh, and it's funny. Very funny. Any movie in which a couple of deformed hillbilly kids kill a kangaroo with a rock at 1000 yards, then eat it's adreno glands to get high, has got something to say.(imdb)

 

 

 

take 33: 24.3.2013

Under the Radar

A double feature of unknown flicks.

Doors open: 20h 

 

20h15: Mexico 1991, 100 min. english subs    

 

The undervalued Alex Cox directs this underrated gem. El Patrullero follows Pedro Rojas, an initially idealistic Mexican national highway patrolman, from cadet training to his rookie assignment. Things go south south of the border as a quick courtship becomes a stormy marriage, and steady resolve gives way to moral disintegration and corruption as Pedro and his partner Anibal navigate desert highways flooded with drugs, opportunity and temptation. Abuse of power, strung out whores, routine traffic stops, the human condition, intense shootouts and public service all slam and bang on broken axles to a bloody climax of revenge and redemption. 

 

 

 

 

22h: USA 1973, 95min.

A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast hotel, Randolph Roberts wears a monster mask while he kills and dismembers women with blond hair. Tiffany Bolling is a singer, Scott Brady is a detective and Edd "Kookie" Burns is a lifeguard. The music is the original organ score for the silent film "Phantom of the Opera."