Recommended Movie List
Last updated: 12/5/95
Compiled, Edited and Organized by:
Gray, Albert, Dwayne, Yippi
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Title: 2001
Director: Stanley Kubrik
Description: Metamorphosis of the human species through alien intervention.
From: Bjorn Danielsson
Title: 2010
Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow
Description: So why did HAL freak out? And what really happened to
David Bowman? "My god, it's full of stars!"
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BONZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION
Actors: John Lithgow
Description: Buckaroo must stop the Red Lectroids from escaping into
the 8th dimension before the Black Lectroids initiate
atomic annihilation of the entire planet. "Where are we
going?" "Planet 10!" "When are we going to get there?"
"Real soon!"
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: ALIEN
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt
Description: 10 little indians in space. Enter the rampaging alien.
Then there were nine...
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: ALIENS
Director: John Cameron
Actors: Sigourney Weaver
Description: If Alien was the fun house, Aliens is the roller coaster
ride! "Nuke 'em from orbit, it's the only way to be sure."
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: ALTERED STATES
Description: A researcher experiments with an Amazonian Indian
psychedelic concoction and sense-dep tanks. He experiences
evolutionary regression. Reality fractures. Supposedly
based in part on the life of John Lilly.
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: ANDROID
Description: Real gental, quite touching, low budget sci-fi with a twist in
the tale ending. Set on a remote space station. Claus Kinski.
From: SOL
Title: ANGEL HEART
Description: Robert DeNiro and Mikey Rourke A sickening, disturbing tale of
evil. I cannot describe further, for fear of ruining it.
From: Gilad L Rosner
Title: APOCALYPSE NOW
From: Gray
Description: Excellent soundtrack by The Rythm Devil's, a band led by Micky
Hart of the Grateful Dead.
>From B. Cameron
Title: AMADEUS
From: Gray
Description: Did someone mention that already? I just wanted to second this
one for trip value. I've zoomed with Amadeus a couple of times,
and each time the twisting plot structure, the way Mozart and
Salieri's characters intertwine, worked its way into the very
core of my being. I virtualiterally had to unwind after that.
From: Jerome Pennington
Title: BACKSTAGE PASS
Description: An hour-long film-history of The Grateful Dead. Some
wonderful historical moments are shown here on film along
with great music and a fun fractal animation piece.
From: B. Cameorn
Title: BAD TASTE and BRAINDEAD
Description: Ultrasplatter comedy, very gory, very bad taste, very funny.
From: albert
Title: BARAKA
Description: Visual trips through life the world and everything. Beautiful,
stunning, moving, breathtaking. Must be seen, must be tripped to.
[See KOYAANISQATSI and POWAQQATSI]
From: albert
Title: BEING THERE
Description: A guy who's been living his life with only television as a
window to the world is squeezed out into the Real World. One
of the first things he learns is that you can't use your trusty
Remote Control to change the channel when some hoodlum kids are
giving you guff. Despite knowing nothing concrete about the
Real World, he survives and thrives.
From: richard j moore
Title: BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
From: Rebecca Tolhurst
Title: BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE II
From: Rebecca Tolhurst
Title: BIRD
Director: Clint Eastwood
Description: Cool jazz movie about the great bebop prophet Charlie Parker
yardbird orooney.
From: albert
Title: THE BLACK HOLE
Actors: Starring several nobodies, Maximilien Schell, and Anthony
Perkins.
Description: Ridiculously ominous, pseudo religious take on what happens
when a crazy guy with a big space ship decides to turn a
black hole into a cosmic roller coaster. Insane philsophizing,
trash cans that fly, a space ship made out of *glass*, and
some really trippy opening credits make this one a treat for
the whole family. The next time you want to trip Disney, and
Fantasia has bored you silly, try this.
From: Scotto
Title: BLADE RUNNER
Director: Ridley Scott
Description: If you haven't seen it yet you must've been a sequestered
juror or something when it was out. Included because it's my
favorite film. Letterbox (widescreen) Director's Cut available
and recommended. Ask me anything about it. Anything.
ANYTHING!!! Based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by
Philip K. Dick.
From: Jerome Pennington
Title: BLADE RUNNER, THE DIRECTOR'S CUT
Director: Ridley Scott
Description: This has been one of my all-time favorite movies, ever
since the original first came out. The Director's Cut is
even better. Seeing this movie is almost a religious
experience for me.
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: BLEAK MOMENTS
Director: Mike Leigh
Description: Mike Leigh's grim sadsweet comic masterpiece; British society
and 'the English reserve' in all it's painful glory. Also check
out 'High Hopes' and 'Life is Sweet'.
From: albert
Title: BLUE SUNSHINE
Description: Hilarious low-budget acid shocker. Ten years after taking
'blue sunshine' acid in the 60s, people find that all their
hair falls out and they turn into crazy apeshit killer zombie
muties.
From: albert
Title: BLUE VELVET
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Dennis Hopper
Description: Classic David Lynch movie. Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth,
regular guy.
From: albert
Title: BRAIN DAMAGE
Description: Amusing and entertaining acid-splatter about a creature that
injects a highly addictive psychedelic drug into the brain of
its human host and then sucks other peoples brains out while
the host is zonked-out in psychedelic wonderland.
From: albert
Title: BRAIN DEAD
Description: Just to confuse things, there is a recent 'Braindead' which is
total splatter comedy and the earlier 'Brain Dead' which is:
Madness, brain surgery, paranoia, bughouses, who's brain am i
in now? Just what the fuck is going on, am i the doctor or
the patient? I really dig this movie, kind of mild splatter
headfuck with a great sense of humour, perfect for tripping to,
even very moving in places. "Am i a man who dreamed he was a
butterfly, or a butterfly who dreamed he was a man?" "And
remember, just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're
not out to get you"
From: albert
Title: BRAINSTORM
Description: What happens when they develop a technology that lets you
record and playback another person's thoughts. Effects
by Douglas Trumbull (of 2001 fame).
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: BRAZIL
Description: Futuristic, but with black humor
From: Paul Rossouw
Description: Dead clever sweaty future state type film. Have some pot first.
From: SOL
Title: BREATHLESS
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Description: This was the film that sent the French New Wave of films into
full swing. I think it was done in 1959, and it uses a
film-noir genre as a vehicle for character and production
experimentation. This film pioneered the jump-cut and shaky-
hand-cam, to name a few conventions.
From: Gilad L Rosner
Title: BRONCO BILLY
Description: Clint Eastward in a cool, laid back comedy about dropping out,
pulling yourself together, and being whoever you want to be.
From: SOL
Title: CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
Description: Fritz Lang's classic.
From: Paul Rossouw
Title: CARNIVAL OF SOULS
Description: Strange and excellent low-budget black-and-white chiller, very
odd in a really good way.
From: albert
Title: CINEMA PARADISIO
Description: Fellini, about a young boy's fascination with moving pictures.
I think it was autobiographical...?
From: Jerome Pennington
Title: CIRCUITRY MAN
Description: All around hilarious cyberpunk film about a guy with about
every type of port in his head that one can think of. I
can't watch it without laughing.
From: Green, Chris
Title: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Description: Ouch!!!
From: Bjorn Danielsson
Title: COBRA WOMAN
Description: With Maria Montez, squared
From: Albert Vanderburg
Title: COCAINE, ONE MAN'S POISON
Actors: Dennis 'McClous' Weaver
Description: Hilarious anti-drugs movie with Dennis 'McCloud' Weaver.
Nancy Reagan says "Cocaine One Man's Poison accurately
portrays the reality of cocaine use and is a service to the
future of our society" hoho.
From: albert
Title: CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
Description: IMHO the best of Woody Allen's films (and I am a fan). It
deals with guilt, God, justice and lots of other good stuff.
Basically it asks 'Why would a just God allow evil in the
world?'. The great thing about is that he doesn't offer pat
answers to a difficult question. 'nuff said...see it!
From: Gray
Title: DEAD POETS SOCIETY
From: Weird Mother
Title: DELICATESSEN
Description: Totally brill movie set in a France of the future. Dead funny,
dead excellent. Clowns cannibals tea sex murder suicide and
the people who live underground. (French with English
subtitles)
From: albert
Title: THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOUSIE
Director: Luis Bunuel
Description: Luis Bunuel takes a sharp and witty surreal scalpel to French
bourgeous society and religion. (in French with English
subtitles)
From: albert
Title: DIVA
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Actors: Starring Wilhelmina Wiggins-Fernandez
Description: Stunning visuals and soundtrack.
From: Paul Rossouw
Description: A mailman, an opera singer, crooks, a motorcycle, and a great
atmosphere.
From: Bjorn Danielsson
From: Lila Star
Title: DO THE RIGHT THING
From: Gray
Title: DOGS IN SPACE
Description: Weird australian film made in the 80's about the drug/punks/
freaks/drug in Melbourne during the 70's.
From: Rebecca Tolhurst
Title: DR WHO AND THE DAEMONS
Description: Now on video. It takes a while for the Devil to appear, but
when he does, all is delivered. The best coverage of the
devil i've yet seen. Gotta be on acid for the devil bits.
From: SOL
Title: DRUGSTORE COWBOY
Description: Gets closer to the life of a junkie than most movies
that I've seen. The good part about is that it's very
entertaining and although it's a disturbing subject has a lot
of funny and even warm moments.
From: Gray
From: Weird Mother
Title: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
Description: Only seen it tripping, very moving, excellent pastel suburbia.
From: albert
Title: EL TOPO
Director: Alexandro Jodorowski
Description: Haven't seen this one in years but recall it with great
fondness. Alexandro Jodorowski (sp?) directs/stars in this
bizarre tale of one who seeks the truth through various
*freak* masters. In addition to some high dialog, which is
the value of this film, there is a rape scene on the sand in
the middle of the desert, mid-day. According to AJ (the
rapist) the scene was authentic as the actress (rapee) knew
nothing of the change in script. Egads.
From: Russ McClay
Title: ENCHANTED APRIL
Description: This is another film where total strangers make a soul
connection. [See description for LOOK WHO'S KNOCKING AT
MY DOOR]
From: Jeff Elder XXIII
Title: ERASERHEAD
Description: Early (first?) work by David Lynch. No plot -- based on a
series of dreams the director had. Black and white with
weird-ass claymation. A classic and must-see.
From: Fireman 451
Title: EXORCIST
Description: Everyone's seen this by now yeah? Some classic one-liners and
plenty of green slime
From: SOL
Title: EVIL DEAD 2
Description: Again, everyone must have seen this by now. Set in the "hills".
From: SOL
Title: EXCALIBUR
Director: John Boorman
Description: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. This is
my other all-time favorite movie.
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: FLASHBACKS
Actors: Dennis Hopper, Keifer Sutherland (i think)
Description: Dennis Hopper is an aging hippy from the 60's on the lamb
trying to make a comeback on the edge of the 90's. Keifer
Sutherland is the FBI agent assigned to bring him in.
"The ninety's are going to make the 60's look like the 50's."
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: FLATLINERS
Actors: Keifer Sutherland, Julia Roberts
Description: Medical students at the University of Chicago explore
existence after death.
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: FOR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Description: Funny funny funny... oh... the guy who was in this was also
in...
From: Jeff Elder XXIII
Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET
Actors: Leslie Neilson and Anne Francis
Description: Beware, monsters from the Id!
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: FOUR CORNERS
Actors: Starring Jodie Foster and John Turturro
From: Lila Star
Title: THE 400 BLOWS
Director: Francois Truffaut
From: Lila Star
Title: FRIED SHOES, COOKED DIAMONDS
Director: Constanzo Allione, Mystic
Actors: Corso, Burroughs, Ginsburg, Leary, Orlovsky, Anne Waldman
Description: Documentory of Ginsburg's Naropa Institute for Dead Poets
includes excellent dialogue of the above famous beat poets
and 60's figures.
From: B. Cameron
Title: GHOSTS OF THE CIVIL DEAD
Actrors: Nick Cave
Description: Well hard prison movie about a commercially run high-security
unit. (With Nick Cave as a crazed racist psychotic killer).
Violent and hard-hitting.
From: albert
Title: GOODFELLAS
Description: Excellent mobster movie, lots of violence, lots of humour.
From: albert
Title: GRAND CANYON
Description: Really enjoyed this one. It follows 6 or 7 characters and how
their paths cross and their lives intersect with each other.
Good screenplay.
From: Gray
Title: THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE
Description: This two-hour movie is the next best thing to being at a show.
A great deal of fun, the film-makers spend a gracious amount
of time interviewing audience members, the parking lot folks,
the band members. Lots of crazy, wonderful animation and
good music.
>From B. Cameron
Title: THE GRIFTERS
Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: starring Angelica Huston and John Cusack
From: Lila Star
Title: HARDWARE
Description: Culty and post-apocalyptic. Fabulous soundtrack (available
on CD). Killer robot comes back to life and terrorizes the
girl who played Julie Brown's blonde nemesis on Just Say Julie
(Stacey somethingorother).
From: Gilad L Rosner
Title: HEAD
Actors: The Monkees, featuring Frank Zappa, Teri Garr, Annette
Funicello, Victor Mature; co-written with Jack Nicholson.
Description: Completely non-linear post-modern ultra-hippie take on music,
television, big business, cops, sex, society, and all of
reality itself. Opens with the main characters committing
suicide and progresses from there. If you ever wondered if the
Monkees should have just been taken out and maimed, wonder
no more; this film demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that
as long as they didn't have to actually play music, those cats
were seriously far out.
From: Scotto
Title: HEARTBEEPS
Actors: Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters
Description: One of Kaufman's last films. He and Peters portray androids
who search for freedom and identity. Lighthearted and comical.
From: Gilad L Rosner
Title: HEATHERS
Actors: Christian Slater, Winona Ryder, Shannen Doherty
Description: I can't believe you guys left this out.
From: Wendy Softwing
Title: HELLRAISER
Description: A sweet and soothing whimsical little movie for all the family
about a lovely little puzzle box.
From: albert
Title: THE HIDDEN
Description: Entertaining horror sci-fi about a sluggy alien that invades
people's bodies and likes to drive fast red sports cars and
listen to loud music.
From: albert
Title: HIGH HEELS
Director: Almadovar
>From Wendy Softwing
Title: HIGHLANDER
Description: There can be only one! This one! When will they figure
that out?
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: THE HILL
Description: Black'n'white British film about a military prison camp in the
desert. Good performances all round. Consentrates on the
pshychological aspects
From: SOL
Title: HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING
Description: Dead good horror comedy satire on the world of advertising and
consumerism.
From: albert
Title: THE HUNGER
Actors: David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Want to live forever? There's just one catch...
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: I LOVE YOU ALICE B. TOKLAS
Description: A straight-edge businessman type falls in love with a
hippychick and ends up signing up for the lifestyle too. He
learns some interesting lessons.
From: richard j moore
Title: JABBERWOCKY
Actors: The Monty Python crew
Description: "Beware the Jabberwock my son..."
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: JACOB'S LADDER
Description: My vote for the movie you don't want to watch on acid. Very
dark and disturbing and worth several viewings. It's about a man
going insane as the world around him is slowly transforming into
hell.
From: Gray
Description: Yikes!
From: Bjorn Danielsson
Description: Watching jacob's ladder on acid (in the theater, no less) was
one of the most cathartic things i have ever done. It's like
drano for the soul.
From: Darren Bauler
Title: JOHNNY STICHINO
Description: An Italian film with the italian cab driver from the
above movie.
From: Secret Agent Man
Title: JULIET OF THE SPIRITS
Description:
From: BALLMS@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
Name KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE
Description: Hesitantly for this crowd, mind you
From: Weird Mother
Title: KOYAANISQATSI
Description: Visual trips through life the world and everything. Beautiful,
stunning, moving, breathtaking. Must be seen, must be tripped to.
[See BARAKA and POWAQQATSI]
From: albert
Title: THE KEEP
Written by: Scott Glenn
Director: Michael Mann
Description: A tale set in 1941 Romania. Germans invade a pass in the
Carpathian Mntns. and inadvertantly release an evil, which
wakens a guardian (Scott Glenn). Soundtrack by Tangerine
Dream. Also interesting is the film's depiction of differences
between the German Army and the Nazi soldiers. Slow moving,
but very rich.
From: Gilad L Rosner
Title: KILLER CLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE
Actors: Really bad.
Description: Formula b-grade horror flick except the bad guys are clowns, and
kill people by wrapping them up in candy-floss and placing them
in a vat where they die and go all soggy so the clowns can suck
them out of the candy-floss coccoons with giant straws. See it
stoned. it's fuckin' hilarious! =]
From: Wendy Softwing
Description: I second this recommendation.... and, I got it on videotape, so
just ask whenever yer at the monkeyhouse....
From: Wonko the Sane
Title: THE LIFE OF BRIAN
Actors: The Monty Python crew
Description: "Are you the Judean People's Liberation Front?"
"No, we are the People's Liberation Front of Judea... He's
the Judean People's Liberation Front. SPLITTER!"
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Name LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (!!)
From: Weird Mother
Title: LIQUID SKY
Description: Drug addicts in the hip scene in New York and aliens killing
them for their orgasms.
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: LISZTOMANIA
Description: Cheers, Maestro Ken
From: Albert Vanderburg
Title: LOOK WHO'S KNOCKING AT MY DOOR
Description: This is Martin Scorcese's graduate student film. I don't know
why I love it so much. Strangly sensual, gritty.
From: Jeff Elder XXIII
Title: THE MAHABARATA
Director: Peter Brooks
Description: Based on the ancient sanskrit mythological cycle of india,
this is 6 hours of magic. The only "world movie" I know, it
uses a cast from every corner of the globe to portray the gods,
goddesses, men and women of this tale of love, betrayal, joy,
and slaughter which has held center stage in indian
consciousness for the last 2000 years. The battle scene
in the bhagavad gita where arjuna acts as charioteer to krishna,
and debates with him the meaning of existance and the purpose
of life is one of the scenes in the mahabarata, but every scene
in this film gets the same kind of loving attention, the epic
poem unfolding like a thousand-petal lotus where each step of
the drama weaves a new spell over the viewer (hey, if I'm
laying it on a little thick, keep in mind that this is _the
greatest story ever told_, dammit, and brooks tells it very
very well).
From: Gerold Firl
Title: MAN FACING SOUTHEAST
Description: Spanish language; dubbed in English available at Blockbuster
Video. One of the 2 or 3 best movies I have seen, it concerns
itself with a gentle young man who appears in an Argentine mental
hospital, claiming to be a hologram from outer space. He quickly
becomes a Christ figure to the other residents and the obsession
of one psychiatrist.
>From Dan O.
Title: THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
Actors: David Bowie
Description: An alien being, stranded on earth, attempts to cope with
mid-20th century humans.
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: MAURICE
Description: British film based on a novel. Wonderful story of love and
loss and class struggle and ignoring class struggle.
From: Jeff Elder XXIII
Title: MEDITERRANEO
Description: Delightful file abou tsome guys stationed on an island
during and after WW II.
From: Paul Rossouw
Title: METROPOLIS
Description: Fritz Lang's classic.
From: Paul Rossouw
Title: MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Actors: Jon Voighy and Dustin Hoffman
Description: Speaking of cowboys...Brilliant directing and great
performances by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as a couple of
New York street people from way different backgrounds trying
to survive together.
From: Gray
Title: MINDWALK
Description: By Fritof Kapra and his whole family.
From: Secret Agent Man
Title: MON ONCLE
Description: Jaques Tati film, hilarious look at hi-tech consumer living
with the irrepressible Monsieur Hulot and his nephew.
From: albert
Title: MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
Actors: The usual suspects
Description: The title says it all. "We are the knights who say 'Ni!'
and we demand... a shrubbery!"
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: MR. FROST
Description: Jeff Goldblum as Satan in sheep's clothing, versus a psychiatrist
(or was it a priest?). 'Nuf said.
From: Jerome Pennington
Title: MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO
From: Weird Mother
Title: NIGHT ON EARTH
Description: A bunch of shorts about taxi drivers around the world
From: Secret Agent Man
Title: NOTRE HISTOIRE
Description: Bertand Blier movie; funny sad happy surreal tale of a woman
who likes to fuck strangers on trains until a runaway garage
owner drunk with a suitcase of money comes along insisting "I
just want some help with messing up my life". (in French with
English subtitles)
From: albert
Title: OLIVIER OLIVIER
Description: This is a French film. It's a little bit of a mystery.
From: Jeff Elder XXIII
From: Lila Star
Title: ORLANDO
Actors: Starring Tilda Swinton
From: Lila Star
Title: PARENTS
Actors: Randy Quaid
Description: Stars Randy Quaid as the father of a ten-year-old boy who is
freaked out because said father (and mother) are cannibals.
Takes place in plasticine suburbs of the American '50s.
Classic dialog:
-------------------------------------------------------------
Mom: Eat your supper, hon.
Kid: What is it, Mom?
Mom: Leftovers.
Kid: But what was it before it was leftovers?
Mom: Why..................leftovers to be!
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(Hmmm. Somehow it loses something in the translation)
A fantastic dark comedy. General weirdness and social
significance. Too much
From: Fireman 451
Title: PARIS, TEXAS
Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Harry Dean Stanton
Description: Beautiful Wim Wenders movie with Harry Dean Stanton and
wicked Ry Cooder guitar soundtrack.
From: albert
Title: THE PARTY
Description: A clumsy indian actor (Peter Sellers) is invited to a big
party by mistake, and things slowly get out of hand. One of
Sellers' funniest movies IMHO.
From: Bjorn Danielsson
Title: PEE WEE HERMAN'S BIG ADVENTURE
Description: Oh man... oh man...
"There's no basement at the Alamo! HA HA HA HA HA HA!"
From: Jerome Pennington
Title: THE PIANO
Description: oh my god... i laughed, I cried.
From: Jeff Elder XXIII
Title: POWAQQATSI
Description: Visual trips through life the world and everything. Beautiful,
stunning, moving, breathtaking. Must be seen, must be tripped to.
[See BARAKA and KOYAANISQATSI]
From: albert
Title: PROJECT A-KO
Description: Japanese anime. If you liked StarWars and Yellow Submarine,
you might like this lightweight delight with subtitles.
From: Jim Hawtree
Title: PROSPERO'S BOOKS
Description: The most beautifull, enchanting, haunting movie i have yet to
witness - Peter Greenaway's adaptation of The Tempest -
every one in the movie is naked(nude) opening scene of a boy
tenor singing opera on a swing above a pond pissing for a full
five minutes - hard to find but **seek this out** - must have
in letterbox format for full impact. If you have seen THE COOK
THE THEIF HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER you have a starting point but
this is more visually dynamic. If anyone can find this and has
the means to dub it please let me know i will send you my
toenail collection for a copy
From: toenail
Description: I second the nomination. Didn't make you ill like KTW&L.
From: Secret Agent Man
Title: PSYCH-OUT
Description: 1967 Haight head scene, music by Strawberry Alarm Clock and
The Seeds, with Jack Nicholson, Dean Stockwell, cops, squares,
heads, STP!
A young deaf woman goes to the Haight to find her freak
brother.. Presents positive and negative sides of psychedelic
crash commune living and being hip, with some dead funny head
dialogue, complete with cops, hippy-bashing rednecks, bad trips,
garage sounds, 'nuff peace&love and
"God is alive and well and living in a sugar cube"
From: albert
Title: PSYCHOMANIA
Description: On TV again the other day. Indestructable bikers from beyond
the grave type stuff.
From: SOL
Title: PUMP UP THE VOLUME
Actors: Christian Slater and some chick who is now famous for going out
with Brad Pitt, wasn't it?
Description: Teen solidarity film. I just like the soundtrack.
From: Wendy Softwing
Title: RAINBOW BRIDGE
Description: Surprised I've not seen this listed yet (eh...maybe I
missed it). A classic film centered around the now-ancient
(and perhaps defunct and long-forgotten) Rainbow Bridge
spiritual community in Hawaii. Jimi Hendrix visits. He's
there to perform one of the finer concerts of his career,
inside a volcano's (Oola Pala Kula?) interior. The film
includes good footage of the concert (everyone is DEFINITELY
TRIPPING!), conversations with Jimi and *the Wizard* (who I
met years ago on the lawn of the Bodhi Tree in West Hollywood
c.1977), surfing, smoking HUGE BOWLS of d'kine, and Om'ing to
the MOON. (Rhino Video has this one.)
From: Russ McClay
Title: RAISING ARIZONA
Description: The funniest movie I've seen on acid. (Rent a back-up
if you get it. It's a very personal choice and some people
can't like it no matter how fucked up they are.) Rich with
one-liners and, as the visual world takes on a stretchy, taffy
quality with LSD, the aural texture of Holly Hunter's (and
everyone else's) Southern accent seems distorted by a psychic
Doppler effect that will stay with you for days. Leave your
brain in the kitchen before viewing.
Story: a childless couple nabs one of the Arizona quintuplets,
sired by Nathan Arizona. John Goodman is great as the ex-prison
mate of Nicholas Cage. The jail-break scene is hilarious.
From: Jerome Pennington
Title: THE REFLECTING SKIN
Description: Psychotic things happen to this boy in the middle of Dakota
farm country. This film wrecked my life for weeks!
From: Jeff Elder XXIII
Title: REPO MAN
From: Rebecca Tolhurst
From: Gray
Title: REPULSION
Director: Roman Polanski
Description: Roman Polanski b/w about a woman's descent into madness (or
ascent in sanity) through her experiences with men and society.
From: albert
Title: ROZENCRANTZ & GILDENSTERN ARE DEAD.
Actors: Gary Oldman (*wot* a spunk ;), Richard Dreyfuss
Description: Awesome.
>From Wendy Softwing
Title: RUNAWAY TRAIN
Description: Really absorbing action movie written by Akira Kurosawa.
This also stars Jon Voight as a convict escaping a maximum
security prison in the Alaskan wilderness.
From: Gray
Title: SATIRYCON
Director: Enrico Fellini
Description: Great surreal movie.
From: Paul Rossouw
Description: Life in the ancient Roman Empire.
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: SCANNERS
Description: Croenenberg(sp?) sci-fi horror..telepathy, exploding heads and
wickedly good acidic sound effects, definitely tripworthy.
From: albert
Title: SCARFACE
Description: Classic cocaine gangster movie with Al Pacino.
From: albert
Title: SEIZE THE DAY
Description: The most awful/wonderful/terrible movie I've ever seen was
'Seize the Day' with Robin Williams in it. It's based on a play
by Samuel Beckett about a salesman whose life crumbles around
him, like Glengarry Glen Ross, but Williams' acting makes the
whole thing incredibly moving - this is one of those films where
you see the thin line that separates the comic from despair.
Not a nice film by any means, but unbelievably powerful.
From: Charles King
Title: THE SEVEN SAMURAI
Director: Akiro Kurosawa
Description: A remote, impoverished japanese village will be plundered by
bandits after the rice crop is in. But peasants can not defend
themselves. The solution? Hire samurai. Unfortunately, they can
only afford 7, so it turns out that they will have to fight
after all. Along the way, kurosawa touches on all the
complexities of human existance (love, betrayal, pride, shame,
courage, fear, life and death, anyone?). In the end, nothing
much has changed, but then, the code of bushido values skill,
honor, bravery and fidelity above all else. This film portrays
the warrior virtues, japanese style, better than any film I
know, in a beautiful zen starkness. Be sure to get the
subtitled, 3:15 hour version.
From: Gerold Firl
Title: SHAFT
Actors: Starring Richard Roundtree
From: Lila Star
Title: SHAKES THE CLOWN
From: Weird Mother
Title: SHANE
Description: All time best Western ever made. Check out the wholesome
"stump" chopping scene. Worth seeing on acid because of the
impressive blue mountains. (Anyone seen them for real?)
From: SOL
Title: THE SHINING
Description: Horror classic. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
REDRUM!
From: albert
Title: SILENT RUNNING
Description The last samples of a number of plant species are kept
alive on a big space station. One day there comes an order from
Earth to destroy all the plants...
From: Bjorn Danielsson
Description: Effects by Douglas Trumbull (of 2001 fame)
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
Description: A total soul connection can be formed with otherwise perfect
strangers.
From: Jeff Elder XXIII
Title: THE 6 FILMS BY MAYA DEREN
Description: If you have a film studies center close to you, sit down at a
viewer and watch these. They're probably collected on one
tape. They were done between 1946 and 1949. Maya Deren was
the 1st American avant-garde filmmaker, and most of her films
focus on the idea of movement and the camera. She was also a
writer, and some of you may be familiar with her book, The
Divine Horseman, about Hatian voodoo. Each film is between 2
and 15 minutes in length.
From: Gilad L Rosner
Description: For those of you in the Chicago area these are available for
rent at Facets multimedia - yes, they are wonderful! For those
of you not in Chicago (or who want to buy them) they're
available from Mystic Fire Video, though I'm not sure how much
they cost. They also have some other very hep stuff - the # is
(212) 941-0999, or just borrow the catalog...
From: Allan Barclay
Title: SKIDOO
Director: Otto Preminger
Actors: A cast of thousands, including Carol Channing, Jackie Gleason,
Mickey Rooney, Frankie Avalon, Groucho Marx and who knows who
else.
Description: I am amazed [and confused] that no one has yet mentioned
"Skidoo." My goodness, what to say about it...? You get to
watch Jackie Gleason trip and trash cans dance, Groucho Marx
play God and Frankie Avalon try to score. Also, it's directed
by Otto Preminger, so you can't go wrong. It's best if watched
when tripping, but is still an okay flick when straight.
However, and here's the bad news kids, as i understand, it's
not available on video--apparently it was never released in
that format. So I don't know how you can find it. If you've
got a good movie theater in your area, ask them to try to get
it.
From: BitchGoddess
Title: SOAPDISH
Actors: John Cusac, Sally Field, Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Kline and
shitloads of other really cool people.
Description: "Real-life" soap opera (hilariously funny) set on the set of a tv
soap and finds tv and RL merging.. Very frightening. Very funny.
>From Wendy Softwing
Title: SOCIETY
Description: Dead good horror comedy satire on high society and the rich and
powerful.
From: albert
Title: STRANGE BREW
Actors: Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas
Description: If you haven't seen it, see it. Bob and Doug MacKenzie (of
SCTV) at their finest.
From: Gilad L Rosner
Title: SUBURBIA
Description: Punk squat living in the shattered underbelly of American
society as a group of young people calling themselves 'The
Rejected' try to get by in a fucked-up no-future suburban
wasteland.
From: albert
Title: SWAMP THING 2
Description: Far superior to Swamp Thing 1, it's worth getting just to hear
the brilliant swamp guitar music at the beginning. Talking of
cool film music, check out the classical pieces at the end of
RoboCop, and the old black'n'white Alec Guiness film "The
Prisoner"
From: SOL
Title: THE SWIMMER
Actors: Burt Lancaster
Description: A man returns to his rich neighbourhood after some time away.
He decides to swim from swimming pool to swimming pool to get
home. His story unfolds from there...
From: albert
Title: TAPE HEADS
Director: Michael Nesmith
Actors: John Cusack and Tim Robbins
Description: If anyone's a fan of either of these two actors, this is a
must. They play 2 schlemiels who decide to switch careers
from security guards to video artists. Lots of campy humor
and mediocre music (although there is a Devo song in it).
From: Gilad L Rosner
Description: Yeah! I had been singing the end song from tis for ages and
could not for the life of me remember the name of the film it
came from (I myself thought it was "SOAPDISH" which incidentally
is a really cool film)! You must know the song.. the one that
has the bit about "We got food for your atitoood" In any case
folks I would strongly agree with Roz here... Seee this bloody
film, okay???
From: Rebecca Tolhurst
Title: TERMINATOR
Director: John Cameron
Actors: Arnold Schwartzenegger, Linda Hamilton
Description: "I'll be back"
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: TERMINATOR 2
Actors: Arnold Schartzenegger, Linda Hamilton
Description: He did come back, but as a good guy this time around.
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989)
Directed: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Tomoroh Taguchi (incredible actor) and other randoms.
Description: I don't have a copy of it - yet - so I have no details (year,
director, etc.), but if your local video store has it they'll
know for sure. It's a Japanese film, subtitled in English and
filmed in such creamy, luscious black-and-white that you just
wanna lick it right off the screen. Basically an art film
about a young Japanese business gerbil whose societal angst
gets the better of him.
It's gritty, boy. Lots of nervous, breathy grunting,
accompanied by a grinding industrial soundtrack. It gets a
little redundant towards the end, but _Tetsuo_ is on my list
for sheer psychovisual texture. (I just made that up - you
figure it out.)
From: Jerome Pennington
Yes! I give it two thumbs and seven machineguns bursting from
my chest up! Uhh...well, the plot's a bit more complex than
that. =) The plot is one of the those extremely convoluted
things with multiple flashbacks and dream sequences and whatnot,
here on Brahman (we went to see the movie for a user meeting)
we managed to get a working summary of the plot after lots of
discussion but I'm afraid I don't have a copy anymore.
Soundtrack, which I'll drool about in the next sentence, by
Chu Ishikawa. Psychovisual texture...yeah, that does sum it up.
Not for people with weak stomachs, I'll say that much... gives
new meaning to "fuck me harder with a piledriver". As for the
soundtrack, it's brilliant, and you can order your very own copy
straight from Japan from:
Japan Overseas, 6-1-21 Ueshio Tennoji-ku, Osaka 543, Japan
Costs $15, shipping & handling included, for 38 minutes of
wondrous music from both Tetsuo 1 and Tetsuo 2 (which is as good
as Tetsuo 1, although in a different way). I got a copy, well
worth the dough just for the 6-minute version of "Megatron" from
Tetsuo 1, the first tune in the movie. SHI-MOSHI!!!"
From: Guru Gnosis Sahib
Title: THEY LIVE!
Description: Excellent horror sci-fi 'with a message'. The aliens are here
and have taken over!
From: albert
Title: THIEF OF BAGHDAD
Description: Of course
From: Albert Vanderburg
Title: THE THOUSAND CLOWNS
Description: It's about an out-of-work cartoon scripter. Actually, he gave
up his job because he couldn't stand the hypocrisy. Sort of
like Robin Williams' character in Mrs Doubtfire. Anyway, he's
raising this absolutely precocious kid and finds himself forced
more and more to get a job so he can keep this kid. It;s in B&W
and was made in the 50's or 60's I think. Definitely check it
out.
From: Fireman 451
Title: 3 O'CLOCK HIGH
Description: A wickedly funny teen-movie.
From: Gray
Title: TIME BANDITS
From: Gray
Title: THUNDERBIRD 6
From: Rebecca Tolhurst
Title: TORCH SONG TRILOGY
Description: Take the tissues.
From: Wendy Softwing
Title: TOTAL RECALL
Actors: Arnold Schwartzenegger
Description: Arnie signs up for a little escapism by having them
implant memories of an adventure as a secret agent on
Mars which turns into a real adventure on Mars. Is
it real or is it Memorex? Based on the short story
"We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by P.K.Dick.
From: hurst@mcs.com (David Hurst)
Title: THE TRIP
Actors: Dennis Hopper
Description: Far-out 60s groovy moovy acid fun with Peter Fonda as a man
taking his first LSD trip. (with Dennis Hopper as a long-
haired hippy head)
From: albert
Title: TRON
Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges, and David Warner.
Description: Trippin' inside computers, dudes! Far out!
From: Scotto
Title: TRUE ROMANCE
Actors: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette
Description: Sick but excellent.. Nost people wouldn't agree but i thought
there was actually a bit of romance in there.
From: Wendy Softwing
Title: WATERSHIP DOWN (Animation)
Description: Richard Adams' dystopia of bunnies. English produced, John
Hurt has a leading voice. Beautiful artwork. Soundtrack by
Art Garfunkel.
From: Gilad L Rosner
Title: TOMMY
Description: The classic rock opera by The Who.
From: Bjorn Danielsson
Title: TRULY MADLY DEEPLY
Actors: That incredibly charming man who plays the Sherriff in
Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves.. you know, the guy with the scar..
Description: It's about this woman whose partner has died and she just pines
away without him until one day he appears in her house as a ghost
but she seems to be able to magically have sex with him and he to
play a piano..can't tell you any more, it would ruin it. I have
not met one single person who didn't cry during this film. Take
the tissues. *please*.
>From Wendy Softwing
Title: UN CHIEN ANDALOU and L'AGE D'OR
Director: Luis Bunuel
Actors: Max Ernst
Description: Two surrealist shorts by Luis Bunuel (& Salvador Dali on Un
Chien..), caused an uproar when first released, watch out for
surrealist stars like Max Ernst in L'Age D'Or. It's eyeball-
slitting dog-kicking good!
From: albert
Name: UNKNOWN
Producor: Brothers Quay
Description: If you ever get the chance to check out a collection of short
films by the Brothers Quay (one laserdisk, two videotapes, can't
remember the exact name) by all means do. Strange, spooky, some
of the absolutely most original films i have ever seen. if you've
ever seen the video for His Name Is Alive's "can't go wrong
without you", you know what i mean. i know they have copies at
That's Rentertainment in Iowa City and i'm sure larger cities
will have copies floating around.
From: Darren Bauler
Description I whole-heartedly second darren's recommendation re the
brothers' Quay animation. bye
From: heath michael rezabek
Title: VARIOUS
Producor: Jananese movies by Kurusawa
Description: Great surreal movies.
From: Paul Rossouw
Title: VIDEODROME
Description: Hmmm.
From: Bjorn Danielsson
Title: WHISKEY GALORE
Description: British b/w comedy oldie shot on location in Scotland about
an isolated close-knit community who run out of whiskey and
really get a bad jones for it and then a cargo ship crashes
on the rocks and all their prayers are answered. Based on a
true story and using the real people it happened to as the
cast of the movie. Warm and funny.
From: albert
Title: WICKER MAN
Description: Police detective searches for kidnapped girl on an island
of pagans and apple orchards. There are three versions of
this one; the shorter ones are edited and easier to find. The
original is far better.
From: Jim Hawtree
Title: WILD PALMS
Producer: Oliver Stone
Actors: Jim Belushi, Robert Loggia, Angie Dickenson
Description: NBC Miniseries from last year or two years ago. Set 15 years
in the future, two political factions fight for sumpremacy:
Fathers (roughly modeled after the Scientologists) and The
Friends (Ultra-Liberarians). Trippy, highly stylized, and very
intriguing. About 6 hrs. in length.
From: Gilad L Rosner
Title: WITHNAIL AND I
From: Rebecca Tolhurst
Name WIZARDS
From: Weird Mother
Title: WIZARD OF OZ
From: Albert Vanderburg
Title: WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Director: Almodovar
Actors: Starring Antonio Banderas
Title: WOODSTOCK
Description: Three hour long oscar-winning documentary about the event.
Lots of great music.
From: Bjorn Danielsson
Title: THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE
Actor: Noah Yaylor
Description: Australian film about a boy called (something) Embling who is
going through puberty and in love with this really beautiful
blonde girl called Freya who likes someone else.. It's really
well done, the acting is superb and if you can find it anywhere
have a look.
From: Wendy Softwing
Title: YELLOW SUBMARINE
Description: The Beatles in animated form. Never mind the plot, just enjoy
the music and watch the trippy graphics.
From: Bjorn Danielsson
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