By: septo guppy

septo guppy — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 22:07:36 +0000

Daaa-yamm, Murphy be hotsin’ it back in the day!!

By: Nick D.

Nick D. — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:43:56 +0000

I noticed it just played on TCM.

By: Ursula Hemard

Ursula Hemard — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:11:35 +0000

Brilliant discovery! Tank you so much!

By: eggplant

eggplant — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:12:49 +0000

Getting Straight is one of the better studio films that covered and was part of near revolution that happened globally around 1968. Most acutely felt in the US, France. Other films that have center on student activism include; Strawberry Statement, RPM, La Chinoise, and more harder to find films like The Activist and Ice. Maybe I should throw in Peter Watkins Punishment Park. Something was in the air indeed.
I like Getting Straight’s plot were Elliot Gould’s character is wrestling with palatable conflict between the establishment and the movement. While also wrestling with poverty, sexual relations the generation gap. It took a couple viewings to really appreciate it. The cast is pretty good–Harrison Ford as an art teacher. Issue 57 of Shock Cinema has an interview with Robert Lyons where he reveals how much of his character got cut from the film.
The cinematography is interesting. The camera will shift focus on a lot of scenes sometimes to switch from speakers during dialog scenes instead of doing cutaways. Maybe they do it too much but it give it an experimental edge.
The police riot at the end of the movie fluctuates between being hooky Hollywood to being blood chilling real. Ive been in some—and–you will too–soon

By: Jonathan P

Jonathan P — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 06:20:24 +0000

Excellent, I was sorry I missed this last July as a New Bev Midnight feature, so glad to catch up here.

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