tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post280146200089835438..comments2024-03-28T16:47:27.333-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: "Come and get your yarbles!" ZARDOZ: British Acid Cinema v. 1Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-55667431359124512382019-07-07T01:31:00.927-05:002019-07-07T01:31:00.927-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17050780812342957714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-45813271659785038392017-03-04T14:18:09.409-05:002017-03-04T14:18:09.409-05:00Erich have you seen Assayas' latest Personal S...Erich have you seen Assayas' latest Personal Shopper yet? Cant't wait for your review of this oneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-87806932704182427512017-03-01T12:44:10.816-05:002017-03-01T12:44:10.816-05:00Wizards can be, for sure, a bit excessive. Love t...Wizards can be, for sure, a bit excessive. Love the dreamy synth music though, and the voice over by a Sally Kellerman clone.<br />I think it's the audio component of that film that really gets to me. Voices, weird music montage bait-and-switch, sound effects from the cassette era, just something so tangible and odd.<br /> As for Zardoz, also the sounds intrigue me. The tapping of the prophylactic balloons brings out moans of ecstasy from the fluids; haunting tinkling, and the rather sexually frank expressions of all the women in the film. Charlotte Rampling at her most insidiously carnal. Connery looks like he's having fun for once. Not as dour as he often is. C. Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17533120433728439556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-54894031529511346142017-02-28T15:39:23.060-05:002017-02-28T15:39:23.060-05:00thanks for sharing that hazy memory - sounds indel...thanks for sharing that hazy memory - sounds indelible. I've been meaning to get to WIZARDS, but I covered all of Bakshi's work for the Muze search engine back in the day and left him feeling the need never to return. WIZARDS especially has way too many rotoscoped shots that are basically just WW2 stock footage with horns drawn on the Wermacht helmets. Gotta love the Peter Falk voice of the lead wizard though, and that the climax where he just shoots him! Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-74045713783142003402017-02-28T12:57:57.012-05:002017-02-28T12:57:57.012-05:00For me, first viewing was as a Midnight Movie Doub...For me, first viewing was as a Midnight Movie Double Feature at the Strand Theater in Ocean Beach, CA-- December 1978. It was the second film after Ralph Bakshi's animated phantasmagoria Wizards. <br />Wizards and Zardoz. I was about 14 at the time, and the crummy little <br />theater was fogged in, both outside and inside, if you follow my drift.<br />Hard to see the screen through the acrid haze. The tiny toilets were full of heads of all stripes, and the lobby was a veritable gab fest.<br />Loved the combination of these two films, and today it virtually impossible to think of one without the other. They are forever <br />inseparable in my mind. Zardoz is perhaps my favorite early 70's film, and it absolutely drives my family and friends crazy when I even mention it, as if it is some mutant talisman, never to be discussed in polite company.C. Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17533120433728439556noreply@blogger.com