Another old film post from 2013, a look at some very different British films. I think only Eddy and Vinnie have seen this one previously.
The Antipodean film buff, and blogger extraordinaire, James Curnow, recently added an interesting post on his website, at http://curnblog.com/ It was a look at twelve Australian films, and he wittily entitled it, ‘Ozpolitation: Twelve Australian Exploitation Classics.’ This was a play on the often-used term, ‘Blaxpolitation’, common in film writing to describe a genre of American films that featured predominantly black casts, small budgets, huge Afro hairstyles, and jive-talking leading men. These films were mostly made in the 1970’s, taking popular cinematic subjects of the day, and re-making them with a black cast, and lots of cultural references relevant to the largely black-populated districts of America’s cities. Well-known examples include; ‘Cleopatra Jones’, ‘Car Wash’, ‘Shaft’, and ‘Superfly’. They usually had soundtracks featuring leading black artists of the day, including such leading lights as Curtis Mayfield, and Isaac Hayes.
This gave me food for thought. British Cinema has not escaped this…
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Thank you for the very interesting information, Pete! Even if they are not the films I prefer. Best wishes, Michael
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They are not the films anyone prefers, Michael. That’s the point. 🙂 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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But at least it cant harm to get more knowledge about. Like old songs i more and more also adore elder movies. There is a lot of sense behind, not only loudness and action. Thank you, and best wishes, Pete! xx Michael
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I’d like to check out Sightseers if I can find it.
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It really is excellent, Kim. Incredibly quirky, and violent, but often hilarious too.
Be careful not to confuse it with the Steve Buschemi film of the same name.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Not the sort of films that I enjoy, unfortunately.
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That’s why they are featured, Stevie. With the exception of ‘Sightseers’, most are simply bad exploitation films best forgotten.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I just bought my husband Curtis Mayfield’s album Move on Up and it is really good! xox to you Pete.
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Love Curtis! Have to listen to ‘We gotta have peace’ at least once a week.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I like the sound of the Sightseers but the rest I can live without.
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Sightseers is a really excellent black comedy, FR. You can live without the others, which is sort of the point of the post. They are now mostly just ‘historical oddities’. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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