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Ready to kick back against the Man? Thought so. brother. l, et's begin wrth some 19608 American New Wave thanks to Leon Prochnrk's The Existentialist (trnyurlcom cghtpz). Is this man progressive. or rs rt rust that the world rs gomg backwards round him? Occupying the rntellectual netherwodd between Albert Camus and Buster Keaton. Prochnrk's film says more about alrenatron in seven mrnutes than most Beat authors drd rn a lifetime of self regardrng prose.
Let's take if to another level wrth a one—man freak—out named John Smith. Hrs nine-minute Opus Chewing Gum Girl (trnyurl.r:om cyifiiltfl could well be the ultimate comrrrentary on how man shapes art. or maybe that should be. how an shapes man. Or rt coold rust be a poseur talking over a random piece of camerawork. Art or tossery’? Only you can decrde.
Head spinning? Then let yOur bottle crash wrth Anthony Mrnghella's frlrn version of Samuel Beckett's Play (trnyurlconr/cgvygrl. Kristin Scott Thomas. Alan Rickrnan and Juliet Stevenson are the actors. they're planted lll earthenware pots like flowerpot men, and the language is exgursrte. obscure and classrc. If you thrnk the late Mrnghella was only capable of chocolate-box romances Irke The English Patient or hrs rnfarnous Gordon BrrmrvTony Blair party polrtrcal broadcast. thrnk again; when Mrnghella put hrs mrnd to rt. hrs counter culture credentials are second to none.
Finally, let's get verbal with Beckett's Not I ltrnyurlcom dciuzwl. featuring the celebrated mouth of Billie Whitelaw. Swrtch to full-screen. srt back and set yoor phasers to stun: if you thought the rnternet was Just for watching cats falling off curtains. it's time to let the world of experrmental film strrp the scales from your eyes. Can you dig rt? (Eddre Harrrsonl
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