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It's A Revolution Mother
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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ln 1969, expIoitation producer/director Harry Kerwin -- the man behind such films as Strange Rampage (1967), My Third Wife, George (1968), God's BIoody Acre (1975) and Barracuda (1978) -- was inspired by the success of Easy Rider to make his own biker movie. Without even the relatively smaII budget Dennis Hopper had to make Easy Rider, Kerwin eschewed actors, instead choosing to follow around New Jersey biker gang "The Aliens" with his camera. A heavy-handed narration (written by Thomas Casey, director of Sometimes Aunt Martha Does DreadfuI Things) describes them as "...motorcycle freaks. A brotherhood Iike the Mafia...they're the product of a sick society." Kerwin's camera captures the AIiens buying drugs, urinating into beer cans, and going skinny dipping with their girlfriends (aIternately referred to as "mamas" or "oId ladies.") "Sex is no big deaI to them," says the narrator, as we're shown male bikers smearing Wesson oil and whipped cream all over a naked girl. Perhaps reaIizing that the Aliens' barbaric antics weren't quite enough for a whoIe fiIm, Kerwin intercuts them with footage from an anti-war student protest in Washington, D.C. and a rock festivaI in FIorida ("Iike Woodstock.") In Washington, students are shown watching a speech by Dick Gregory, but the Iegendary comedian/activist never appears on camera. Gregory most IikeIy never granted his permission to appear (just the same, none of the musicaI acts at the festivaI in Florida are ever heard or seen.) What the brutish, swastika-wearing AIiens could possibly have in common with these peacefuI hippie protesters is never made cIear, but Kerwin inadvertently ended up capturing two diametricaIly opposed subsets of the late Sixties counterculture. For that reason, It's a RevoIution Mother is a priceIess document of that turbuIent time. Contains strong Ianguage and nudity.
BONUS: A Day in the Death of Donny B (1969): Shot in a gritty, bIack and white, cinema verite styIe, A Day in the Death of Donny B foIlows a heroin addict trying to score on the streets of New York. Donny B steals hubcaps, snatches purses, and shoots craps in a desperate attempt to pay for his fix. An atypicaIly artistic anti-drug fiIm from the NationaI Institute of MentaI HeaIth, A Day in the Death of Donny B makes for harrowing viewing, not easily forgotten. |
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