Suburbia (1984)

Runaways, punks and outcasts calling themselves The Rejects group together in an abandoned house just outside of town. It explores many things people would assume to be covered in this kind of film. Cast consists of real punks and Flea from RHCP. Also live performances by TSOL, D. I. and the Vandals.

He Died With a Falafel in His Hand

 

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A 2001 Australian comedy-drama film directed by Richard Lowenstein and starring Noah Taylor. The film draws on the 1994 memoir of the same name and consists of a series of vignettes from a young man's experience of sharing accommodation with a variety of characters.

The True Story of Artaud le Mômo (1993 Eng Sub)

 

"The True Story of Artaud le Mômo", by Gérard Mordillat and Jérôme Prieur, produced in 1993. Attendees: Luciane Abiet, Jacqueline Adamov, André Berne-Joffroy, Annie Besnard-Faure, Gustav Bolin, Denise Colomb , Pierre Courtens, Alain Gheerbrant, Alfred Kern, Gervais Marchal, Domnine Milliex, Minouche Pastier, Henri Pichette, Marcel Piffret, Rolande Prevel, Marthe Robert, Jany Seiden de Ruy, Paule Thévenin and Henri Thomas.

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Poet, man of the theatre, actor, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is the author of an immense body of work among which is The Theater and its Double, The Voyage to the land of the Tarahumaras, Van Gogh the suicide of society, Artaud the Mômo... On May 26, 1946, after nine years of internment in various asylums and finally at the Rodez hospice, Antonin Artaud returned to Paris, welcomed at the Gare d' Austerlitz by his friends Henri and Colette Thomas, Jean Dubuffet and Marthe Robert... Arthur Adamov and Marthe Robert having guaranteed his material life, he will now live at the Maison de Santé in Ivry, under the authority of Dr. Delmas who will provide him with a pavilion and will leave him completely free of his time and his movements. We want to revisit the friends of Antonin Artaud, his loves, his companions the path he took, to find in their memory the places he frequented, to redo his journey between the clinic of Ivry and Saint-Germain-des- Prés, in the Paris of the immediate post-war period. That is to say that we want to find the voice of Artaud, his face, his presence, in the voice, the face, the presence of those who accompanied him, and whose life he changed: Paule Thévenin, Henri Thomas, Marthe Robert, Anie Besnard, Jany de Ruy, Rolande Prevel, Henri Pichette...

The Last Wave / Black Rain (1977)

The Last Wave (also released in the United States as Black Rain) is a 1977 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir. It is about a white solicitor in Sydney whose seemingly normal life is disrupted after he takes on a murder case and discovers that he shares a strange, mystical connection with the small group of local Aboriginal people accused of the crime. Click on the image above to watch the full film.

La Commune Paris 1871 (FR, 2000) [engl. subtitles]

 

La Commune. Directed By Peter Watkins (5hrs 46mins). La Commune is Watkins’s anarchist masterpiece. He made it in 13 days in an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Paris, with a cast of more than 200 participants who re-created the six-week experiment in socialist self-government of 1871. In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a working class revolt. Most came to the project as activists, not actors, with a pre-commitment to Watkins’s own utopianism and his desire to bring contemporary capitalist society and media to account.

Revolution (1968)

EXPOSED! The Weird Rites of the Hippies. All About the rebellious ones. How they live, love and die in their wild, wild world! Revolution is a documentary film by Jack O'Connell made in San Francisco in 1967. It was subsequently revived with added reminiscences.

Although most interviewees are not named some of them have been identified, such as Kurt Hirschhorn, Frank Jordan, Cecil Williams and Herb Caen. Daria Halprin appears in the film as herself. Also appearing in the film are the Ace of Cups, Country Joe and the Fish, and Dan Hicks.

The soundtrack album features Steve Miller Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Mother Earth who also appear in the film. It was released in 1968 by United Artists Records (UAS 5185) and produced by Ben Shapiro.

Jack O'Connell also made Village Sunday in 1960, which is a short documentary about the bohemian scene in Greenwich Village.

Tie-died: Rock 'n Roll's Most Deadicated Fans (1995)

Filmed during the Grateful Dead's 1994 summer tour, this film chronicles the lives of the "Deadheads"-- free-spirited fans who follow the band around the country.

Bedazzled (1967)

Bedazzled is a 1967 British comedy DeLuxe Color film directed and produced by Stanley Donen in Panavision format. It was written by comedian Peter Cook and starred both Cook and his comedy partner Dudley Moore. It is a comic retelling of the Faust legend, set in the Swinging London of the 1960s. The Devil (Cook) offers an unhappy young man (Moore) seven wishes in return for his soul, but twists the spirit of the wishes to frustrate the man's hopes.