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I don't mean to pick on the Brits - I LOVE British cinema- but I have just discovered a new contender for "strangest film ever"!
H.G. WELLS' THINGS TO COME
Criterion has just released this totally bizarre, sometimes wonderful, often pretentious, piece of gargantuan fantasy/science fiction/ prophecy!
seeing is believing!
check it out!
bruce
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It's always fun to see a film that posited a certain kind of future and looking back to see it never quite happened as the film makers thought, THINGS TO COME being the perfect example of this.
(Especially the canon to outer space and all the futuristic PROPELLER-driven aircraft.)
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SEARCH FOR BEAUTY 1934
God I love pre-code Hollywood!
I can not even begin to describe the 'plot' of this crazy film!
Suffice to say it contains a scene where an actress checks out Buster Crabbe in trunks at a swimming pool with binoculars- and stops at his pouch and mutters, "Oh my, come to momma!"
If Leni Reifenshtahl collaborated with Busby Berkely .....
for more info go here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025755/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
Damn you Josehp Breen ! Damn you all to hell!
brm
ps available as part of the Universal "PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION"
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Lynch movies are meant to be dream-like and disorienting, even non-sensical.
Spider Baby and (These Are) The Damned are made with slightly different intentions.
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I LIVE IN FEAR - dir. Akira Kurosawa
Another 50's film about fear of nuclear annihilation, this one set in Japan.
Tosahiro Mifune stars as an OLD MAN who thinks he can escape radioactive fall-out by moving to Brazil (?)
Hilarity ensues.
ON Criterion's budget label.
CHeck it out!
bruce
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Not the strangest, but considering that cast (Brando, Liz, Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Robert Forster) and director (John Huston), it sure is one of the strangest mainstream movies I've ever seen with some odd performances, and Liz' delightful bare ( | ). I saw ithe film when TCM aired it about twenty years ago.
Oh, it's strange alright, very, very strange.
I believe Liz used a body double - sorry about that
b
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Mar 19, 2017 - 12:33 PM
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I recently saw an incredibly obscure, strange/bad 60s movie called "Corruption" starring Peter Cushing. Jesus christ, Peter, what were you thinking???!!!
Peter Cushing absolutely hated doing that film. And it is rather unnerving to see him snogging lassies (tongues and everything) before killing them in a graphic manner (the Continental cut has an incredibly nasty WTF scene in which Pete Cush stabs the girl to death, then rubs his hands over her naked breasts before cutting her head off laboriously with a scalpel. The UK version had the lassie at least keep her top on, if not her head).
It's very nutty and unpleasant, and of course has that completely WTF (again) ending, where it's all kind of starting over again, and we don't know if it's all been a dream. And the Bill McGuffie "Live at Ronnie Scott's" score must be one of the most inappropriate ever written.
I think that it's just shoddy rather than "strange". But it's a facinating mess if you're into Brit horrors. In fact, last time I watched it, I loved it.
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Mar 19, 2017 - 2:56 PM
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Heath
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I recently saw an incredibly obscure, strange/bad 60s movie called "Corruption" starring Peter Cushing. Jesus christ, Peter, what were you thinking???!!!
Peter Cushing absolutely hated doing that film. And it is rather unnerving to see him snogging lassies (tongues and everything) before killing them in a graphic manner (the Continental cut has an incredibly nasty WTF scene in which Pete Cush stabs the girl to death, then rubs his hands over her naked breats before cutting her head off laboriously with a scalpel. The UK version had the lassie at least keep her top on, if not her head).
It's very nutty and unpleasant, and of course has that completely WTF (again) ending, where it's all kind of starting over again, and we don't know if it's all been a dream. And the Bill McGuffie "Live at Ronnie Scott's" score must be one of the most inappropriate ever written.
I think that it's just shoddy rather than "strange". But it's a facinating mess if you're into Brit horrors. In fact, last time I watched it, I loved it.
Hmmm.... to me the it's-all-a-dream ending looked like a last minute re-edit hack job to get them off the hook for the violence - violence that revealed the rather nasty, seedy minds of the film makers more than anything else. My god, even a dog would have had more dignity than to take a piss in Wardour Street by the late 60s. 
The other disturbing thing about it was to realise just how radically Cushing would age within a few short years. There, he appeared quite young and fit, but by the early 70s he looked at least 10 years older. Just like that! Shock from the death of his wife no doubt.
I actually liked McGuffie's music quite a bit. It was appropriately inappropriate.  I knew it was him before I saw his credit - for me that's a good sign in a composer. It was a bit like his Dalek movie music but from hell.
I'm not sure about Cushing "hating" having to do it (that's a get-out clause of many an actor AFTER they've shoveled money into the bank for doing dodgy projects). He seemed to throw himself into it with a weird, trashy energy, something which reminded me of Impulse, another trash-fest: Impulse was to Shatner as Corruption was to Cushing.
Bill, Peter.... what WERE you thinking???
Of course it's all funny in retrospect. But, boy, those must have been weird, horrible times for actors... let alone the poor bloody audiences!
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