1962
Directed by Harry Smith
Oh come on. Really? Really??
Harry Smith spends about an hour using cut out animation to…well I really don't know what his purpose was. There was no story and nothing about this film was that beautiful so I guess he just felt like being weird. Well, keep it to yourself buddy.
That was just stupid and a waste of space in The Book. I am just annoyed thinking about this so I will end the review there. If anyone enjoyed this movie, please leave a comment and explain to me why.
RATING: *---- (I am giving it one because it wasn't disgusting and unfortunately, I must make that distinction since The Book has grossed me out many, many times)
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Watched 3 seconds of the film. WTF?
ReplyDeleteI watched all of it and that is my reaction too.
DeleteOne blessing about most of the seriously weird experimental is they tend to be mercifully short... You can sit there bemused for 10 mins and earn an easy tick... This dragged on for over an hour....
ReplyDeleteAnd over an hour in experimental film time is nine hours in real time (according to my boring movie time converter).
DeleteThis movie does have two thing on the plus side:
ReplyDelete1. It was a pre-cursor to Terry Gilliam's cartons, though ot nearly as funny.
2. It was not half as bad as the movies by Jack Smith.
Beside that, I also had a very hard time with this movie. The List editors must be out of their minds.
I think of them more as cold scientists running experiments on us.
DeleteI see the value, but expecting the type of people whose love of cinema has driven them to a movie list book to be attuned to this is a bit of a long shot. Not only is it artistically experimental in a way we won't understand, but it's technically experimental in a way that has been superseded.
ReplyDeleteReminded me of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer video a bit more than Terry Gilliam.