Tag Archives: Tarot
Nightmare Alley (1947)
They didn’t call them noirs then; they were just crime pictures – cheap, pulpy, sensationalistic. The papers turned up their noses but audiences flocked to them, so studios kept making them. But if we didn’t have crime pictures as deeply … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Smoking Gun
Tagged 40's, Carnival, film noir, hard boiled, psychic, Tarot
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The Song Remains the Same (1976)
By the time Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same was finally released, the band hardly cared anymore. They needed to put something out; the car accident which had left Robert Plant and his family with severe injuries had placed … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Ballroom
Tagged 70's, Concert Film, Documentary, Gangsters, Psychedelic, Surreal, Tarot, Werewolf
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The Holy Mountain (1973)
With the surrealist Western El Topo (1970), the Chilean-born Alejandro Jodorowsky suddenly found himself an overnight (or, rather, midnight) sensation at the age of 41. His life had been one of adventures, spiked with a few tall tales; it’s known … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Psychotronic
Tagged 70's, dwarf, Jodorowsky, LSD, Madness, Midnight Movie, monkey, Psychedelic, Surreal, Tarot, Zen
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