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VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS

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October 4, 2009

The weird and occasionally wonderful 1970 movie ‘Valerie & Her Week of Wonders’  is based on a 1935 novella by Czech author Vítězslav Nezval and directed by Jaromil Jireš.

It’s a movie which, alongside cult classics like ‘The Wicker Man’ and ‘Holy Mountain’, is held in high esteem within some quarters of  the New Folk movement. Like those movies, it centres mainly on big issues like sex, death, religion and the corruption of innocence; themes which also loom large in the contaminated folk music of the New Weird America. Continue reading →

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HOLY FREAKS

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June 8, 2008

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Watching Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain in 10 minute chunks on YouTube may not be the ideal way to view this cult movie but it doesn’t feel inappropriate. After all, the movie is not much concerned to maintain a narrative flow. Only in the last half hour does it finally get around to telling something that resembles a story. This revolves around the journey to the summit of The Holy Mountain on Lotus Island where nine wise mean live. These know the secret of immortatity and the mission is not to learn from them but simply to kill them and take their place. Even then there are plenty distractions and bizarre scenes.

If you watched the movie in a random sequence I don’t think it would be any more confusing – it may even help. Continue reading →

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