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Weird Scenes 8/16/18: Week 52 - Easy Ridin' with Cap - the films of Peter Fonda

One of New York's own, scion of an acting dynasty that includes his famed father, controversial sister and indie film regular daughter, Peter Fonda walked a very different path from the man who raised him, in short order becoming the figurehead of a generation. From an oddball pair of Roger Corman quickies that barely seemed to grasp the counterculture they centered on (and were ostensibly marketed towards), Peter Fonda took on the role of a lifetime in a film that was just as loose, wild and freely improvised as the spontaneous youth productions of the era, and yet more profound and incisive than any dozen deliberately crafted "arthouse" and "message" films.   Following up with similarly "loaded" and relevant films that still adhere to and fall under the umbrella of cult and genre film of the era like Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, the Last Movie and even Futureworld, Fonda would make a sideline in both rural action films and low key dramas throughout the 70's, appearing in cultier fare like Spasms and Certain Fury in the 80's and the arthouse cinema of the early 90's before one last gasp as Old Nick himself, in the Nicholas Cage Ghost Rider... Join us as we talk the man who positively embodied the 60's and 70's, the one and only Peter Fonda, only here on Weird Scenes! Week 52 - Easy Ridin' with Cap - the films of Peter Fonda https://weirdscenes1.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1 https://twitter.com/WeirdScenes1 (@weirdscenes1)

Weird Scenes 8/2/18: Week 51 - the OTHER career of William Shatner

A man of contradictions whose name's literal derivation is "from the shadows", yet is one of the most recognizable, well beloved cultural icons of our time.  A Canadian actor, nearly all of whose performances were both lensed and based in the States.  A "singer" whose recordings consist of hilariously bombastic theatrical spoken word readings...mostly of popular hits of the day.  A persona noted for his onscreen virility, despite spending the better part of same busting out of every suit he's seen in, right from the dawn of the 80's. Beloved and mocked in equal measure by cultish fanboys and mainstream audiences alike, oft imitated but never paralleled, we could only be referring to one man: the legendary William Shatner (née Schattner). In honor of these many, often glaring contradictions, we're going to completely avoid (or at least significantly gloss over) the role he's best known for in television and film, to talk his most interesting (and to hear him talk of it, desperate) era: the lean years prior to and between said role...when he did some of his greatest, and most absurdly entertaining, work in cult television and cinema. So join us as we talk everything from Thriller, Incubus and Shame to Impulse, Kingdom of the Spiders, The Devils Rain and the Horror at 37,000 Feet, when we speak to the Shatner That Matters, only here on Weird Scenes! Week 51 - Esperanto, Molestation, Spiders, Satan and the Klan - the "other" career of William Shatner https://weirdscenes1.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1 https://twitter.com/WeirdScenes1 (@weirdscenes1)

Weird Scenes 7/19/18 - Radley Metzger - a dash of Euro Chic

Born in the Bronx at the dawn of the Great Depression, a young man falls in love with film...and specifically the burgeoning European arthouse cinema coming in from celebrated critical darlings all over France, Italy and even Sweden, whose loftier and more visual (if not downright highbrow) approach to film would later inform his own strange career. From humble beginnings in film editing and dubbing, he formed the celebrated Audobon Films, responsible for the importation and distribution of numerous well known European erotic and crime films, only to use this as a springboard for his own directorial career not long after. Working a surprisingly lush and Decadent aesthetic in a number of jet setting European and New York set softcore melodramas like Camille 2000, The Image and Score, he eventually moved with the trends of the time straight into more pointedly adult fare, most of his films (as "Henry Paris") remaining among the most celebrated and enduring classics of the entire genre: just mention the names Misty Beethoven, Pamela Mann or Barbara Broadcast and wait for the praise to gush.   Hell, his work even made it to the permanent collection at MoMA... Join us as we wend our way through the weird and wild career of Radley ("Henry Paris") Metzger, only here on Weird Scenes! Week 50: Radley Metzger - a dash of Euro Chic https://weirdscenes1.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1 https://twitter.com/WeirdScenes1 (@weirdscenes1)

Weird Scenes 7/5/18 - Io, Emmanuelle

At the very dawn of the 1960s, a then-typically "Anonymous" book of erotica appeared on the shelves of the more specialized and discreet booksellers and bodegas of Paris. Generally considered to be autobiographic fiction, Emmanuelle was penned by a Thai expat going under the pen name of Emmanuelle Arsan.  While the book was later widely reattributed to her French husband, Emmanuelle was an amazing novel, rivalled only by Pauline Reage's Story of O and the works of Sade as a quintessentially French admixture of hot erotica and Decadent philosophy, taking the swinging suburban roulette schtick to both exotic locales and thoughtful intellectual extremes in a way seldom seen since the heyday of Decadents like Huysmans, Mirbeau and Rachilde.    Finding its audience and influence greatly expanded upon the release of Just Jaeckin's groundbreaking 1974 cause celebre of a film adaptation, Arsan herself took the helm for the quite similar Annie Belle feature Laure, handling both scripting and direction and even making one of her rare appearances onscreen therein. But even more importantly, from such humble beginnings sprang a plethora of sequels, offshoots, variants and oddities that spanned more than a decade, inclusive of a number of related series that spanned the globe, from its strongholds in France and Italy to entries hailing from Greece, the UK, the US and even so far afield as Japan and China! Join us as we wend our way through the tangled skein of 70's softcore cinema, as we take on a fictionalized "true story" of a swinging couple cum Sadean philosophy treatise...or is that globetrotting photographer cum adventuress? - the woman that changed and defined a decade, Em(m)anuelle! Week 49: ...Io, Emmanuelle - an exploration and overview of the global Em(m)anuelle filmic phenomenon https://weirdscenes1.wordpress.com/

Weird Scenes 6/21/18: Watch Out, Baby…it’s Eddie Constantine!

A Russian-Pole cabaret singer and contemporary (and collaborator!) of Edith Piaf, Eddie Constantine made his fame in the bohemian Left Bank of Paris…first as a proto-Serge Gainsbourg chanteur…but more famously, as the unlikely star of a long running series of generally hard boiled neo-noir (but just as often, self-mocking and comedically oriented!) crime pictures. Much beloved, oft imitated but never paralleled, Constantine would appear in films by the likes of Jean Luc Godard and Jesus (Jess) Franco, appearing in contemporaneous and parallel series as long running detective novel standby Nick Carter and his own Lemmy Caution, as well as any number of similarly-minded one off roles to which he brought simultaneous good humor, a hard luck “tough guy” noir ethos, likeability and gravitas. Join us as we celebrate one of the greats of French cinema, the inimitable Eddie Constantine! Week 48: Watch Out, Baby…it’s Eddie Constantine!   https://weirdscenes1.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1 https://twitter.com/WeirdScenes1 (@weirdscenes1)