Underground Film Guide » 1969 http://www.ufilmguide.com A Film Guide to the Strange, Unusual and Controversial Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:18:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Putney Swope http://www.ufilmguide.com/700/putney-swope/ http://www.ufilmguide.com/700/putney-swope/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:54:40 +0000 Mike Everleth http://www.ufilmguide.com/?p=700

Director: Robert Downey Sr.

Starring: Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Archie Russell, Ramon Gordon, Bert Lawrence, Joe Madden

Year: 1969

Runtime: 84 mins.

Synopsis: After the CEO croaks during a boardroom meeting at a Madison Avenue ad agency, members trying to sabotage each other’s chance of winning the top spot each vote for the token black guy, thereby electing Putney Swope. Swope swoops into action, firing them all and replacing them with armed radicals, soul brothers, and sexy red-hot mamas. Re-naming the agency “Truth and Soul,” Putney sets about revolutionizing the corporate world of advertising, banning the marketing of products such as cigarettes, alcohol and violent toys. (from Image Entertainment)

DVD: Image Entertainment

Official Website: None

Reviews: Variety (Unknown)
Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)
GreenCine (Erin Donovan)
Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
TV Guide (Unknown)

Video: Trailer

]]> http://www.ufilmguide.com/700/putney-swope/feed/ 0 T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G, http://www.ufilmguide.com/513/t-o-u-c-h-i-n-g/ http://www.ufilmguide.com/513/t-o-u-c-h-i-n-g/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:11:27 +0000 Mike Everleth http://www.ufilmguide.com/?p=513

Director: Paul Sharits

Starring: David Franks

Year: 1969

Runtime: 36 mins.

Synopsis: Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on soundtrack/an uncutting and unscratching mandala.

“Merges violence with purity.” – P. Adams Sitney

“Surrealist tour-de-force.” – Parker Tyler

On “10 Best Films of 1969″ lists of Soren Agenoux and Jonas Mekas. (from Canyon Cinema)

DVD: None

Official Website: None

Reviews: None

Video: None

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Director: Peter Whitehead

Starring: Peter Whitehead, Allen Ginsberg, Ossie Davis, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Robert F. Kennedy, Arthur Miller, Robert Rauschenberg, Gloria Steinem, Paul Auster, Alberta Tiburzi

Year: 1969

Runtime: 116 mins.

Synopsis: The film starts with a ceremonial immersion into the feminine, a loosing of control, the cameraman engulfed in a kaleidoscope of image-moments as he arrives in NY to film its breathing. Here we are in the eye of the 60′s project, Godard and Mcluhan the presiding deities, their messages taken to liminal extremes. Perhaps it is true that this is the most edited film yet made. But The Fall not only shows the cut, the split. It is about rupture. It is a tracking-shot through fissures, a sonar raking tectonic grate. Lensing in on assassination, civil disturbance, police brutality and the director’s own subsequent breakdown, it documents division, absence, gulfs. (from official site)

DVD: None

Official Website: Peter Whitehead film page

Reviews: Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
BFI (Peter Cronin)

Video: None

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