Vince Taylor à Macon

Le carnaval des ames

Etant donné : Jajouka, quelque chose de bon vient vers toi

Ciné concert de Bachir Attar & the master musicians of jajouka sur le film des frères Hurtado "Jajouka, quelque chose de bon vient vers toi" à la Gaité Lyrique le 25/09.

Se rapprocher d'Ornette Coleman, en pensant à Paul Bowles, Brian Jones, KLF et la White Room ?

Police Academy

Marilyn Manson et Eric Judor dans le même film... Prometteur. http://www.wrongcops.com/

Reflets & Crudité

Pour les séances en salle c'est ici. Pour les futurs DVD ici.

Couldn't get high : The Fugs on swedish TV, 1968

Un détournenment des beach boys avec bande son refaite à la bouche et autres intitulé "The Beach Boys - Shred I Get Around" envoyé par E. m'a rappelé quelque chose de The Fugs. Bilan de cette recherche tardive sur youtube : un très bon reportage de la TV suédoise sur les Fugs en 1968. Et pour le plaisir, on se refait un petit CIA Man.

You're An Old Broken Down, Bribe-Taking, Piece Of Meat

 And there grows the mushroom of fire, not as big as the one a few decades earlier, and a truck falls off a bridge, following the narrative arc of the counterculture movies of the 70s, a nihilistic fraternal spirit dipping into a destructive nihilistic end, not sought only feebly inevitable, the american crash - was it even perceived by the american generation of the 70s as a failure of society or was it part of a fascination for the pastoral cycle of life and death?
 In any case, Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy does not end in mute disbelief for its spectator. The vehicle for freedom, in this case Duck’s truck, is brought down by authority but in the end the good guys win, and authority is mocked, to the point of laughing at itself.

 In the film Kris Kristofferson plays the cool Rubber Duck, a trucker with a few trucker friends on their way to somewhere, it’s doesn’t matter where really. They drive through deserted landscapes, race each other, joke, and have their fun spoiled by the police. It’s a bit of a laugh at the beginning but once Duck and his friends punch a few cops in a diner in a slow-motion spaghetti type fight, it all becomes a matter of pride and the game turns nasty. They gain followers, the chase becomes a party of dozens of trucks and merry-pranksters, politicians get involved but their knack for appropriation is exposed and turned into buffoonery.

 There is the usual pretty girl as a witness to the strong man’s heroic self-destruction but it cannot be thought in the same terms we envisage parity nowadays. Not because of political correctness or a lack of understanding of women’s concerns, and not even because I am making excuses for past mentalities but because the story happens in a different set for society’s structure it would be somewhat biased to read into the film our current understanding of those relationships, thus placing women as the constant victims, only adding insult to injury. But I don’t know really, it never was my present, not even my past, and to me it should be left at that, I can have my own judgement but it is innately wrong - not sure why I am being defensive, I feel like I've been attacked.
 Anyway, is the film about all this? Could be, it is bare enough to leave space for your own interpretations. Or it could just be good old entertainment. For me yesterday it was more than a gazillion-horse powered procession for an empty coffin.

Mondo Cane de Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti et Franco Prosperi (1962)

Des filles dénudées, des banquets d'insectes, Mondo Cane ouvre un nouveau genre cinématographique, le mondo, composé de courts documentaires destinés à surprendre et choquer l'audience. Une nomination pour la palme d'or du 15e festival de Cannes et Riz Ortolani pour la bande son. Mike Patton créera en 2010 un album hommage,  Mondo Cane qui se classera n°2 des charts Musique Classique aux USA. Profitez c'est l'été.

PS : On retrouve Yves Klein et sa Symphonie Monoton-Silence à 5min dans le troisième film, remixée en adorable film cochon par le montage de Cavara et la musique de Riz. Klein quittera la salle de projection furieux, et sa biographie officielle y voit même un rapport avec les signes avant-coureurs de sa première crise cardiaque.

Je suis venu vous dire... de Pierre-Henry Salfati (2012)

Une autobiographie réinventée en donnant la parole à Serge GAINSBOURG. A la première personne, en utilisant simplement tout ce qu’il a dit aux uns et aux autres, que ce soit édité ou que cela soit toujours inédit… 

En l’entendant autrement, usant de tous ses sous entendus, parfois passés inaperçus, en reconstruisant, en réaménageant autant que faire se peut, mais le laissant se raconter là où on ne l’attendrait pas. Un film en forme d’épure, à la manière où il semblait vouloir le faire lui-même quand il en a eu l’opportunité.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085833/

Plus d'infos : kanibalfilms.fr

You're Gonna Miss Me de Keven McAleste (2005)

Documentary about rock pioneer Roky Erickson, detailing his rise as a psychedelic hero, his lengthy institutionalization, his descent into poverty and filth, and his brother's struggle with their religious mother to improve Roky's care.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791268/

Kurt Cobain About a Son de AJ Schnack (2006)

In this visual essay style documentary, intimate audio of journalist Michael Azerrad's interviews with Kurt Cobain is played over more recently photographed footage of Cobain's Washington state homes and haunts.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790769/

Torrance Rises de Spike Jonze (1999)

A mockumentary chronicling the Torrance Community Dance Group (from Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" video) on their road to the MTV Video Music Awards.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386078/

THE ROAD TO GOD KNOWS WHERE de Uli Schueppel (1990)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100501/

Plus d'infos : http://www.schueppel-films.de

Mondo Hollywood - Robert Carl Cohen (1967)

Full-length 120 minute uncensored "Director's Cut" of Robert Carl Cohen's surrealistic documentary of Hollywood in the psychedelic 1960s.

Invited to open the 1968 Avignon Film Festival, it's exhibition was banned by the French Ministry of Information for "Espousing a number of perversities, including drugs & homosexuality." Described by critics as "bizarre prophesy," it has withstood the passage of time as a unique record of the lives & attitudes of those whose lives mirrored the "Hollywood Dream."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061988/

SUN RA : A JOYFUL NOISE de Robert Mugge (1980)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270677/

THE BLUES ACCORDING TO LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS de Les Blank (1969)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064099/

UPSIDE DOWN: THE CREATION RECORDS STORY de Danny O’Connor (2010)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764726/

Debbie Harry, Spike Lee and the Persuasions

Les Persuasions chantent depuis 1962, sont toujours actifs, ont été découvert par Frank Zappa en 1968, ont fait une reprise du Grateful Dead qui a ému Franky aux larmes ; ont repris Bob Dylan, Kurt Weill, Curtis Mayfield, The Temptations et une chanson du Partridge Family TV show ; ont ouvert des concerts pour Lou Reed, The Mothers of Invention ou Ray Charles ; ont eu Bruce Springsteen comme première partie, et Greil Marcus a dit d'eux que leur style musical étaient l'alliance parfaite de la passion et de l'intelligence. Et en disant cela, j'oublie leur apparition au coté de Debbie Harry dans un film de Spike Lee, et leur collaboration avec Van Morrison et...

Nous laisserons Tom Waits conclure :"These guys, are deep sea divers. I’m just a fisherman in a boat."

Ecouter le très beau The Persuasions – Street Corner Symphony de 1971.

Vous pouvez aussi voir le film qui leur est consacré : Spread the Word: The Persuasions Sing A Cappella (détails sur imdb)

Until the Light Takes Us de Audrey Ewell et Aaton Aites (2008)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014809/

HIGH ON HOPE de Piers Sanderson (2010)

High On Hope - documentary trailer from Piers Sanderson on Vimeo.

Acid House in the disused mills of Thatchers Britain

"How dance music in 1980's Britain went from an underground scene to the mass youth cult across the world. The acid house parties in the disused mills and warehouses of recession hit Margret Thacher's Britain were a reaction to mass unemployment and a government that wanted to appear tough on law and order. 
A story of northern idealism, community, police brutality, false imprisonment and the biggest mass arrest in British post war history. All set to a thumping music track of the biggest warehouse tunes of the time."

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