Thursday, June 14, 2018

season of the witchy



A Year in the Country on a curious if compact patch of film in the late Sixties at the intersection of horror, bucolica, psychedelia and "high fashion" - images and text in part extracted from the book Wandering Through Spectral Fields 










Touchables is the one I really want to see - especially given that the script was by Donald Cammell

"It is a very modish tale of a group of stylish sixties women who live in a huge see-through plastic bubble in the middle of the countryside who kidnap a pop star as “a temporary solution to the leisure problem” and in order make him their plaything"



Nirvana here rewriting their hit "Rainbow Chaser" nicely

1 comment:

Bollops said...

Blimey, The Touchables looks amazing! The screenplay is by Ian la Frenais of all people.

It's making me think of Angela Carter - 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman', 1972. A novel not a film, of course, but the world and the fashions described were of this ilk, iirc.