[Frameworks] drugged

[J Vent]

Don't forget to look at things like Cheech and Chong flicks, and other
comedies in this vein, Dazed and Confused, (loosely) Donny Darko, etc.

ok I'm done.

JV


On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:32 PM, J Vent <jvent.subscriptions at gmail.com>wrote:

> Certainly there are the bits with the high on speed/acid/booze Hells
> Angels and others (hanging about on stage, before the murder,) from the
> Maysles film "Gimme Shelter" and though not a psychedelic drug film, there
> are few films that are druggier than "Requiem for a Dream" and I guess
> "Drugstore Cowboy" might be considered in that way too. Oh, and then of
> course there is the more recent "A Scanner Darkly".
>
> Puff N Stuff has been mentioned so I'll include my reference to the "Mr.
> Show" episode that puts the Sid and Marty Croft man in a suit Saturday
> morning kids shows into a proper context, i.e., Lidsville, Sigmond and the
> Sea Monster, etc....supper druggy and funny.
>
> If your looking for more transgressive depictions of drug/underground
> culture then look into the films of Richard Kern and the other
> Transgressive filmmakers, "Right Side of My Brain" and others from his
> canon might help.
>
> others:
>
> "Rivers Edge" - weed/booze/speed/narcotics
> "Quadrophenia - speed/booze/weed
> "Dogstar Man" certainly looks druggy
> "What We Do is Secret" - Germs/Darby Crash biopic heroin/speed/weed/booze
> "Sid and Nancy" - you name it
> "Martin" - vampirism as drug addiction - George Romero
> "Addiction" (also vampirism as drug addiction) , "Bad Lieutenant" - Abel
> Ferrara
> Loads of goofy getting it ridiculously wrong drug stuff in the old cop
> show "Adam-12."
>
> Thats a pretty disparate group I've listed but hope it helps in some way.
>
> Joe V.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Watter, Seth <seth_watter at brown.edu>wrote:
>
>> Ken Russell's Altered States: William Hurt tripping in the desert with
>> natives.
>>
>> Seth
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, February 10, 2013, Francisco Torres wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Back in the late 60s/ early 70s most TV cop shows included a "trip"
>>> sequence. The trend culminated with The French Connection 2 infamous heroin
>>> room. Most of those trips were more funny than scary....
>>> Some TV series were a trip like Land of the Giants and Puff N Stuff
>>> (Which we 5th graders used to call "Puffing stuff" back in 72). Nixon TV
>>> press conferences were also quite trippy.
>>>
>>
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