It's A Hoot!

HOOTENANNY A GO-GO (aka ONCE UPON A COFFEE HOUSE)-1965-Johnny (Curtis Taylor) likes Vicki (Karen Thorsell) so he buys the coffee house where she sings and waitresses. A lot of not much happens and there's some really silly parts like a pizza fight and an espresso machine that looks like a robot but it's mostly singing by Oscar Brand, Jim, Jake and Joan (Rivers in her film debut), The Goldebriars and The Free Wheelers. Deanna Lund (tv'S LAND OF THE GIANTS) is also in it. The director Shepard Traube didn't do much else.

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Weird Tragedy

ELECTRA MY LOVE-(1974)-This is a very unusual adaptation of the Greek tragedy ELECTRA and ORESTES, made in Hungary. 

It uses long uninterrupted camera shots and weird symbolic scenes (including dwarfs with cymbals and much nudity) that look like Alejandro Jodorowsky could have influenced them! (He made THE HOLY MOUNTAIN in ’73) Occasionally a modern day folksinger shows up and sings! It also features anachronistic props like a helicopter and guns! Did Alex Cox see this movie??

Very slow and arty but occasionally fascinating..

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you"....Oscar Wilde

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