The counterculture films were made by people who were inside it and unsure how it would end. This tag collects reviews and essays on counterculture film and writing, and what survived the era.
CountercultureJack Kerouac typed On the Road on a 120-foot roll in three weeks and then revised it for six years. He spent his last years in a cinderblock house in St. Petersburg's Disston Heights, and the house where he died…
1960sEasy Rider (1969) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It invented the modern road movie and killed the counterculture's mythology in the same hundred minutes. The film is loose, self-indulgent and occasionally incoherent, and the ending is…
1970sWizards is one of the substantial adult animated productions of the late 1970s and one of the most distinctive Ralph Bakshi feature productions. He had directed Fritz the Cat in 1972, Heavy Traffic in 1973, and Coonskin in 1975 before…
1950sAlice in Wonderland is one of the substantial mid-century Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful engagement with Lewis Carroll sourc. Various preproduction attempts had failed across multiple decades partly because of the substantial creative challenges that the Carroll…
1990sBill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and the time-loop comedy that doubles as theology. Studied in religion classes and philosophy seminars.
1960sThe Dirty Dozen is the better-known cousin of The Devil's Brigade, released a year earlier in 1967 to massive box office success. This is going to be a different kind of review because the experience was different.
CountercultureTwenty road movies covering every register of the genre — from Easy Rider's counterculture elegy to The Straight Story's 240-mile lawnmower journey to Mad Max: Fury Road's two-hour chase. The road does not take you to a destination. It takes…
CountercultureScience fiction author Stephen Oram on writing near-future short fiction, collaborating with scientists, self-publishing, and his collection Eating Robots and Other Stories.
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