runedharma Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Thinking about films of surfers, hippies, dopers, bikers, student revolution, alternative culture made in the 1960's and 1970's. Examples Blow-Up, The Trip, Zabriskie Point. Suggest! They don't have to be A films, even Drive-In cult as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 This thread might do better in the General Discussions forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Two films I vaguely remember from my teen-age years are *Chappaqua* (1966) and *Changes* (1969). I think they fit your theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 If you go to the Films And Filmakers forum on these boards and look in "RICH'S B (AND WORSE) JUVENILE DELINQUENT THREAD", you may find a few titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 The one and only *Billy Jack*. Everything else pales in comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runedharma Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 The Trial Of Billy Jack...yes, the Billy Jack series is an important example of this era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT, MEDIUM COOL, R.P.M., GETTING STRAIGHT Edited by: finance on Aug 31, 2012 3:52 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runedharma Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (1971) with Al Pacino; PERFORMANCE (1970) with Mick Jagger EL TOPO (1970); THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) both directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and both films quite cosmic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 I agree, darkblue. I saw "Billy Jack" when I was 11. It had a huge impact on me that I didn't quite realize at the time. I think it reinforced many of my values today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runedharma Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share Posted September 4, 2012 My first Billy Jack movie was The Trial of Billy Jack. I had graduated from high school in June of 1974, and this was a pretty intense film for me at that age. Saw Billy Jack at an art house a few years later. Glad I saw that on the big screen. Never saw Born Losers. Good films for the social justice era, which still have relevance for today. Worked with some At Risk kids for awhile and always thought of these movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runedharma Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 DARKBLUE: Thank you very much for your input on this thread. In my elementary school era and junior high times in the 1960's I grew up in a SoCal beach town with the surfers. But there were bikers as well. In my high school era in the San Francisco Bay Area I went to Biker High School. Biker guys and Biker chicks, and some ended up in notorious gangs. This was the early half of the 70's. It seems what has survived are the surfers and the bikers. Sons of Anarchy is continuation of the biker theme. In the Beach Party movies you have the clash between the surfers and the bikers in a comic way. I can remember going to the drive-in once and seeing a real bad biker gang film. Biker films are quite important in a cultural study. My great-uncle was one of those WW2 vets who bought and Indian Motorcycle, and worked as a teamster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 "All in the Family" was actually taken from a British TV series. I have, though, seen JOE, and I can see the similarity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Nicolson, especially when he was young, seemed druggy in all his roles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValentineXavier Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Coppola's *You're a Big Boy Now* is one of my favorites of the genre. I'd add *Candy*, *The Magic Christian*, and of course *Midnight Cowboy*. And, how could I forget Lindsay Anderson's stunning film, *If*, with Malcolm McDowell... Edited by: ValentineXavier on Sep 18, 2012 9:49 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Maybe I'm thick, but how is MIDNIGHT COWBOY a cultural revolution film? THE GRADUATE may more readily be classified as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runedharma Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 I would agree that Midnight Cowboy is a cultural revolution film. I read in a forgotten source that Midnight Cowboy opened the door for social losers to be heroes in a film. Male prostitution is a real Velvet Underground/Factory idea. I also present Catch-22, because it is a great film for the Viet Nam era, even though it is set in WW2. The Dow Industrial was an object during the Viet Nam War, and Catch-22 reveals the money making of all sides of war. How do you spell Haliburton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runedharma Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 I also agree that The Graduate is a cultural revolution film, because it reveals the emotional sickness of the 1960's "Establishment, " the realm of cocktails and cigarettes. These are the people enjoying their lives, and children getting deferments from the Viet Nam War, while other unlucky young folks are dying in Viet Nam. The one friend of the family tells Ben to go into plastics, rooted in petroleum, which produces napalm. The Graduate also reveals the growing Narcissism in America. Also, Mrs. Robinson is selling off her daughter like a piece of meat for the dogs. Edited by: runedharma on Sep 19, 2012 1:10 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 ...and Hoffman had a "cultural revolution" look, being an atypical leading man. THE GRADUATE certainly would not have had a cultural revolution feel if Redford had played the lead, as had been contemplated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValentineXavier Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 > {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Maybe I'm thick, but how is MIDNIGHT COWBOY a cultural revolution film? THE GRADUATE may more readily be classified as such. True, *The Graduate* is a cultural revolution film, but IMO, so is *Midnight Cowboy*. It just has the added theme of the "cowboy" trying to fit in in the big city. Few were more representative of the NYC "cultural revolution," or more on the day's cutting edge than the Warhol crew, like Viva, Ultraviolet, and Paul Morrisey. One over-looked aspect of the 60s cultural revolution was the urbanization of the US, which began at the end of WWII. Cities were the place to be, and people were leaving the rural areas by the droves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 I concur with what Valentine said. It was certainly revolutionary to be able to talk about and show men as sex objects, particularly those working in the oldest profession. Edited by: dpompper on Oct 1, 2012 5:05 PM Edited by: dpompper on Oct 1, 2012 7:44 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 More (1969). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpressman Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Hey, darkblue, growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, just a few blocks from where the title character in "You're a Big Boy Now" gets his first apartment, I was 13 in 1966 when I saw this movie. Funn and touching, the score from the Greenwich Village-based band The Lovin' Spoonful only added to the film's poignancy. Could not get into "B.S., I love You" but I did see an "Inside the Actor's Studio" with Francis Ford Coppola who said he wanted to make a movie about the two greatest things in life; young love and hot pretzels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Reminds me of George Costanza, who thought the two greatest things in life were sex and eating, and wanted to combine the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craviola990 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Hi Guys- Do you think TCM will ever air these: "Out of It" (1969) "You gotta walk it like you talk it, or you'll lose that beat" (1971) These two are real toughies!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Diary of a Mad Housewife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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