Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice. This Paul Mazursky picture from around 1969 is kinda well-made, which is sad because it's so difficult to find his subject interesting. It's not so much that wife-swapping and encounter groups are boring and dated, but that the sensibility is sick. You won't like it, your parents wouldn't like it, and unless you're a Penthouse-reading 35-year-old swinger from Los Angeles, forget about it.
The Lenny Bruce Performance Film. This is Lenny Bruce's next-to-last nightclub performance, made at the time when he could only be booked in San Francisco. The camera is painfully close, and man, is he wasted. One brilliant critique of society (and here, the law, as he reads the transcript of one of his trials) after another, and all he can do at the end of each rap is give a beaten shrug and a desperate laugh and say, "Weird, man."
Attica also continues at the Welles this week.
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