so I saw "Across the Universe". Having lived through the sixties (yes, I'm THAT old), I was quite taken by this movie. A lot of films have been made about - or even during - the 60's but only three really resonate with my experiences: The Cockettes (which captures the commune energy (I lived in one back in the day)); Apocalypse Now (duh, Vietnam), and this movie - which shows the aching polarity between the hippies and the anti-war movement; both sincere, and both seeking, and sometimes really, really at profound odds with each other. I worked for Dan Berrigan during those years, and was in the student riots etc.; and the way this movie slides from the repressed & innocent world of 1963 to the dark, self-doomed world of 1969 is very remarkable. I guess I'd add a fourth movie - for the death of hippiedom: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - a dream gone bad, a joke told once too often, a drug transformed from transformer to psychic masturbation...
also saw Fando and Lis, which I didn't really like so much, but the documentary about Jodorowsky is very inspiring! He really walked(s) the walk(s) of surrealism and dadaist ideals. Some of his vast egotism colors his world and works, to be sure, but nonetheless, I found him wayy more interesting than the movie - which was just a little too amateur in the film quality to really have impact. On the other hand, I watched it three times before deciding that! and I haven't watched a movie more than once since I saw "The Isle" many months ago.
watching "the Source" right now -- my parents, as it were: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs such sweet, sad, angelic fools
also saw Fando and Lis, which I didn't really like so much, but the documentary about Jodorowsky is very inspiring! He really walked(s) the walk(s) of surrealism and dadaist ideals. Some of his vast egotism colors his world and works, to be sure, but nonetheless, I found him wayy more interesting than the movie - which was just a little too amateur in the film quality to really have impact. On the other hand, I watched it three times before deciding that! and I haven't watched a movie more than once since I saw "The Isle" many months ago.
watching "the Source" right now -- my parents, as it were: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs such sweet, sad, angelic fools
I would LOVE to know more! Do you have amazing stories? I drool over that amazing and liberal decade. Why did things have to change so drastically? We will never see a time like that again!
You are an astrologer? What exactly does that entail? Do you write books?
I'm not sure if you ever got to see France during the 1960's, but another great movie is called "The Dreamers"
and even though some of the subject matter is questionable (such as instestual and sexual acts) I really really think you'd enjoy it! It's by Bernardo Bertellucci!