Recommend me some psychedelic films

massrock

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Apologies for the clanging semi-spam, but Wojciech Has needs your attention here (I just wrote this article about him).

The Hour-Glass Sanatorium is, hands down, the most mind-blowing experience I've ever had in a cinema (you can still catch it in the Manchester Cornerhouse on December 3rd if that's your patch). The Saragossa Mansuscript is great fun too, but Hour-Glass is really the one. You'll never want to leave.
 
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grizzleb

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Apologies for the clanging semi-spam, but Wojciech Has needs your attention here (I just wrote this article about him).

The Hour-Glass Sanatorium is, hands down, the most mind-blowing experience I've ever had in a cinema (you can still catch it in the Manchester Cornerhouse on December 3rd if that's your patch). The Saragossa Mansuscript is great fun too, but Hour-Glass is really the one. You'll never want to leave.
omg that looks amazing. Cheers for this info.
 

marxbert

aphroditty
hm. just rewatched A Boy and His Dog. getting really stoned will certainly alter one's memory of a film. still enjoyed it, but not as much. and it probably doesn't deserve to be called a psychedelic film--though there are bizarre elements.

i'd like to second the suggestion for Prospero's Books. i think it has a michael nyman score--not usually a fan of the man, but it works in this film. it is a nice vision of the tempest. i taped it years ago off IFC--they had some "blue monday" block for semi-pornographic films. because of some nude dancing, that's when they aired Prospero's Books
 

grizzleb

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Paprika for fucked up psychedelic dream world anime shit, pomo plot and the best animation I've ever seen in anime. Watched it full of valium one night and it was a 'joyful' experience. Joy may have been due to valium, but still.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
"Apologies for the clanging semi-spam, but Wojciech Has needs your attention here (I just wrote this article about him).
The Hour-Glass Sanatorium is, hands down, the most mind-blowing experience I've ever had in a cinema (you can still catch it in the Manchester Cornerhouse on December 3rd if that's your patch). The Saragossa Mansuscript is great fun too, but Hour-Glass is really the one. You'll never want to leave."
Anyone make it down to this?

http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=9916

I failed of course. I have another one of his films that I haven't got round to watching yet called Lalka (The Doll). Maybe this evening...
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I watched that Narcissus and Psyche thing and it may just be the best film I've ever seen. Kind of like War and Peace crossed with Satyricon (I mention this because of the gaps that are left in both films) directed by Zulawksi (or Has perhaps), it's a four and half hour epic (in three parts) love story set against a backdrop of war and politics in Europe but with a dreamlike sensibility that informs the colours and the feel of every scene. Odd touches such as a flying pig or the semi-humans powering a water-wheel are seen in the background but left unexplained and unmentioned and just add to the atmosphere generated by the occasional stabs of electronic music and the constant changing colours. It's not just formally interesting though, I found myself engaging with the character(s) and also with the general sensation of changing time, ending of empires, redrawing of boundaries etc The guy who gave it to me described it as a masterpiece and, although that word is overused, on this occasion he's not at all wrong.
 

scottdisco

rip this joint please
Apologies for the clanging semi-spam, but Wojciech Has needs your attention here (I just wrote this article about him).

The Hour-Glass Sanatorium is, hands down, the most mind-blowing experience I've ever had in a cinema (you can still catch it in the Manchester Cornerhouse on December 3rd if that's your patch). The Saragossa Mansuscript is great fun too, but Hour-Glass is really the one. You'll never want to leave.

thanks for your recommendation, your backing swung it for me. i went down, and it was amazing. (that's an understatement, but will have to suffice.)

nice write-up btw.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
^ i watched WR: Mysteries of the Organism earlier this month. fascinating!

have you read his surviving texts? i can't imagine it would have been easy to completely wipe out his body of work----someone surely has reprinted it. (i know, google is my friend...)

I have read a lot of Reich’s stuff and I think it's absolutley fucking amazing, once you get what he's saying and how he's thinking. Incredible mind. One has to get past hostility to the idea of orgone energy though and start thinking in these terms which is where a lot of people will blanche.

Most of the major works were re-published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux – IIRC in part-reaction to the censorship enacted against Reich, as a freedom of support gesture. They’ve been doing this for a long time though so I’m not sure how long this arrangement will last/ I think one of senior partners who was responsible for this died recently.

What was destroyed in the book-burning were lots of copies of journals, and other smaller scale publications – so documents of historical importance, rather than major works got destroyed.
 

grizzleb

Well-known member
Yeah I watched it too - great movie! Really love that lush visual style. Autumnal. Reminded me of Stalker in that sense. Done Schulz justice too I thought.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
need to catch up on this thread looks like lots of amazing... for now a small contribution

 

hi2u

tyranical rhetoric rex
malice in wonderland is one of the shorts featured in psychopticon animatris
it's basically a collection of shorts along those lines
 

nochexxx

harco pronting
I watched that Narcissus and Psyche thing and it may just be the best film I've ever seen. Kind of like War and Peace crossed with Satyricon (I mention this because of the gaps that are left in both films) directed by Zulawksi (or Has perhaps), it's a four and half hour epic (in three parts) love story set against a backdrop of war and politics in Europe but with a dreamlike sensibility that informs the colours and the feel of every scene. Odd touches such as a flying pig or the semi-humans powering a water-wheel are seen in the background but left unexplained and unmentioned and just add to the atmosphere generated by the occasional stabs of electronic music and the constant changing colours. It's not just formally interesting though, I found myself engaging with the character(s) and also with the general sensation of changing time, ending of empires, redrawing of boundaries etc The guy who gave it to me described it as a masterpiece and, although that word is overused, on this occasion he's not at all wrong.

i'd like to see this, any ideas where one might find a copy? i did spend time looking for it but the only copy i found was a non-english version direct from budapest.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
"i'd like to see this, any ideas where one might find a copy? i did spend time looking for it but the only copy i found was a non-english version direct from budapest."
A guy I know translated it for me. I'll lend you my copy when I get it back off DannyL (hint hint). nb There are several versions of the film, the one I've got is the extended version in three parts and I guess it's the most complete version of the director's vision.
I also watched another film by Gabor Body recently called American Torso - strange film strangely shot.
 
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