60s & 70s lifestyle movies-->add on!

I'm a movie freak and i'm always looking for something new to watch but i always find myself watching the same ones over and over again.

These three movies reflect so much of who i am(in a certain way). The lifestyle of the 60s and 70s are something i strongly believe in. I crave for the freedom and the love. Its like nostalgia without ever having been there. (And just so you know i'm not twisted, the manson family movie is only me in a VERRY small manner(the verry begining of the film) if you've seen it you'll understand).

In no particular order...

1-Around the fire
2-The Dreamers
3-The Manson Family(you have to see this if you haven't, excuse the language but, it's FcKeD).

There are others, but these are my favorites.

If you have any other movies that reflect the lifestyle of the 60s & 70s, Add On Baby!

 

Easy Rider and The Trip.


But I'm sure that you already have seen these movies a lot of times.

 

Having been a big fan of Sharon Tate and having to hear about her murder, I don't think I could associate the Charles Manson movie with my childhood and teen years.
One movie that really brought me back to my teen years was Blow. I grew up living part time with my dad at the Freedom Farm and when I was 17 I went with a group of "young hippies" to live in Rosarito Mexico. We spent alot of time sitting on the beach in California smoking weed. Then the late 70's hit and everything became disco and cocaine. It was everywhere!
There are a few Greatful dead DVD's that show alot of the 60's and 70's. GD the movie and Festival Express to name a few.

 

I actualy haven't seen The Trip! heard bout it course.

I haven't seen Blow, i never really took the time to to read the back of the movie case, to be quite honest, i judged it by its cover image. I'll check it out for sure=).

 

Zabriskie point and Chappaqua

These are real hippie films.

 

I Love You Alice B. Toklas! and Easy Rider. And by the way, prankster, I LOVE YOUR SIG!!!!!

 

Thanks. I found this picture on the Jefferson Airplane website
http://www.jeffersonairplane.com

 

thanks for the site! I'll be sure to check it out.

 

Or this movie!

I have it myself. I believe if didn’t' love the 60s this movie wouldn't be that good, it's simply not a masterpiece but worth seeing! It's got a lot of smile giving moments for us who love those times.



Have this one as well... Everyone probably already knows about it. I say It's a really good movie but sometimes feels like a white powder movie and lacks the whole spirit of psychedelics. It lacks some sides of Jim and makes him look like the worse booze addict where you see this whiskey bottle too often and he's just "glogg...glog...glog". I mean no living creature drinks that much. Sure he was a heavy alcoholic but nah!
If you haven't seen this movie... it's a MUST

 

"Hair" it's a really good movie, no in reality it's a musical but you got to see it!!

 

Definitely!

 

Chappaqua is outta control. I am Curious, Yellow is also an excellent mid-late 60s Swedish film on the sexual revolution and the state of swedish socialism.

 

totally agree on the doors thing!

i haven't seen psych out, i think i'll rent that tonight! =).

Also, any of you seen the dreamers??
Not set in the 60s or 70s, but reminds me of freedom and love and music and all that jazz.

Peace

 

What about 2001: A Space Odyssey?

 

Have you seen "Helter Skelter"? It was broadcasted on TV last year & thought it was quite interesting.

 

No i haven't. I'd seen the previews for it though, and remember wanting to see it. I forget, was it a documentary type of movie? Is it even a movie, or is it a TV movie?

 

Never even heard of it. Actualy, i remember reading something about it here...whats it about? too lazy to go look it up lol

Peace,
Angela.

 

x_WaX_x,

The Groove Tube is a comedy that reflects the early seventies scene






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I'll be having a lot of movies to watch! I'm always looking for movies like this!

Peace,
Angela.

 

2001: A Space Odyssey is set in the year 2001, but was shot between '66 and '67 by Stanely Kubrick, the same guy who did Clockwork Orange and a bunch of other classics.

At the time, it was the most expensive film to date. Kubrick spent millions on hiring actual ibm, nasa, and euro space scientists to create a space ship with a ferris wheel frame that is constantly rotating throughout the movie.

The movie starts off in prehistoric times at a desert water hole that is being fought over by two groups of monkeys. Group A kicks out Group B, who leaves the water hole to find a large rectangualar oeblisk that causes hallucinations and visions telling monkey Group B to use sticks and bones as weapons (read TOOLS) against monkey Group A.

The rest of the movie is about astronauts, scientists, etc. making their way to the rings of Jupiter (in ancient mythology, Neoplatonic, Christian, believed to be the gate to heaven) to find a similar oeblisk that has been transmiting signals to earth.

The ever rotating space ship is run by HAL 9000, a "perfect computer" with very life-like patterns of speech which help the astronauts cope with loneliness on their long journey. While there are something like 20 some-odd astronauts, etc. up their, only 2 are awake for certain segments of the trip. The rest are kept in hibernation in these very coffin-esque enclosed beds.

The movie gets interesting when HAL starts to explore some personal initiative. While it sounds formulaic, evil-computer-takes-over-yada, it is actually the best treatment of artificial intellegence that I have seen to date. Gets into heady questions like: what is conciousness? The relation of reincarnation to consciousness, and more!

Something like 30 mins. of the film are shot in COMPLETE SILENCE since the sequences are in outer space. The last 10-15 mins is a crazy psychedelic escapade that was definately groundbreaking for both photography and film. The entire movie is a truly a psychedelic feast for the eyes as Kubrick is a master of color and symbol.