This documentary short captures a lively confrontation between the American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky, and the members of the Conpany of Young Canadians (CYC). Among other topics, the parties argue and disagree about the means and costs of securing social change.
The Fiend with the Electronic Brain was a re-release of Al Adamson's Psycho A Go-Go featuring new footage starring John Carradine that re-imagined the original film's story with a sci-fi plot.
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Rudy Gernreich, Jonas Mekas and others.
Property company chairman Hu Zian was attracted to his secretary Sun Yuxia's beauty and competence. One day after dinner when Hu was escorting Sun home, he received from a child on the street a box containing a mirror and two silver coins engraved with dragons.
A wild, freewheeling spoof on motorcycle gangs in which tough-looking cyclists, who roam the highways on invisible bikes leaving visible tire tracks, pick up a girl hitchhiker encounter another gang.
"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher, the work has been praised despite, and sometimes for, its lack of message.
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Have you watched Encounter with Saul Alinsky - Part 1: CYC Toronto yet? What did you think about it?
