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PleaseSlapMeAround19, 18
I like to be throat fucked, choked, slapped in the face and punched in the head, to feel my mind destruct.
I’m looking for a boss to train me to not suck to learn not to say no any more.
Don’t use my cock anymore unless the boss wants to milk it.
Live tied up with chastity cage I love it.
Really into older men I love it I lose my mind.
If I’m interesting contact me I’ve been watching porn I’m in grave need I’m sick of it.

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PleaseSlapMeAround19 (Owner) – July 24, 2023
Life is going well and I have never been more positive about the future.

ExcitedTony – July 24, 2023
Would you be into getting crystal meth injected in your feet, nipples, arms, hands, ears?
Injections in the feet can be VERY PAINFUL so if you like pain or the endorphin and adrenaline rush that comes with having crystal injected in the foot this might be for you.
You don’t look 18 tho but you can be younger just please don’t tell me.

MasterFog – July 22, 2023
Looking for a boy to befriend and bruise. I am the sweet but violent dom every boy craves – and yes, those whips are mine, and I very much look forward to using them on every inch of your body.

aggrostyle – July 18, 2023
Better if you use your wide cowboy belt or a razor strap to burn his ass up.

pickupthrowhard – July 18, 2023
@For_Now He has a skinny ass, but it makes a lot of noise while you smack it.

For_Now – July 18, 2023
I just want to spank you so damn bad!

 

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JourneyToDestruction, 19
Looking for a one way ticket to Hell
*chems/addiction/overdose
*bugchasing
*starvation/malnourishment
*extreme breath control
*lungfucking
*wounds/scars/burns/surgery/amputations
*every toxic substance
*loaded gun/sharp knives/chainsaw
Idc about my body and what happens to it
I want to be locked in a basement with nowhere to run to with no light so I can’t see and destroyed to death in any way the person sees fit

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Anonymous – July 14, 2023
You would if you were mulched.

JourneyToDestruction (Owner) – July 14, 2023
I’m 6’3″ I would not fit in there

corpsebreeder – July 13, 2023
Hi, Anonymous. I’m a Necro lover and lover of all dead twinks. If he’s still in that suitcase I would love to take it off your hands.

Anonymous – July 12, 2023
He’s inside

What_about_life – July 8, 2023
I would do anything to fulfill this boy’s fantasy, I’m even ready to go to prison or a mental asylum (Hell I belong there).

 

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WILLDOANYTHING!, 18
Outside world sees me as this really cute shy guy. Underneath, though, I am the biggest cock slut in cottage grove, minnesota. I was put on this earth to make men orgasm. A lot. I will literally do anything for anyone. Stuff my head into the goddamn fucking toilet as you fuck me doggie style to your climax. And if you’d like to put a camera there to document me, I’d even be extra grateful. Bring your friends I want to get up to 100 loads busted in my guts by saturday.

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cowboyhotshot – July 17, 2023
I’m very potent, have several children, can shoot 7-8 loads back to back. If you don’t mind driving up to St. Paul, I’ll happily knock you up way past the 100 mark until you won’t want to take another load up your ass for your entire life.

fuckyouintheass – July 12, 2023
I gave him a couple of loads a few months back and after I was done with him he begged me to eat his ass out. When I mean eat ass- I mean my tongue EXTREMELY DEEP inside his piggy hole… I ate the hole and filled it with saliva which lead to more pounding. That made me crazy horny and well, I kept taking a break, pulling my dick out to suck his hole, and I kept on going until I’d shot liters of milk in that ass. All of which caused me to catch a devastating STD, but it was AMAZING.

 

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GiveYouTheBest, 18
I’m a newly 18 yr old who has never had sex but would love to some day.

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GiveYouTheBest (Owner) – July 14, 2023
I’ve now had sex and I’m happy to talk about it, I won’t say it was the greatest thing in the world but I’m not letting it discourage me.

andrei_7772 – July 9, 2023

GiveYouTheBest (Owner) – July 5, 2023
Until that happens I’m giving away my sperm. Use it however you like! Play in it, eat it, use it as lube. I’m not looking for anything in return, just guys who want my sperm and will give it a good home.

 

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tabletop, 23
I was in a long-term relationship with my abusive bf. He trained me as a pain pig. This experience influenced my life. My masochistic preferences appeared like magic. I’m very addicted to pain. Love to be in pain. One of my long-term goals is to shrink my cock to a micro penis size.

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tabletop (Owner) – July 10, 2023
I can tell if a man is necrophile or not in about 10 minutes. For some reason they’ve always circled around me like vultures. I exposed one just yesterday. Probably the biggest shocker of my life was when I toured a morgue in junior high school and realized the chief medical examiner was a gay necrophile. I could see it in his eyes that he imagined me naked and dead on his slab.

CumDumper67 – July 10, 2023
I could never get enough of your dead butt. My nose twitches. My tongue licks my lips. My mouth salivates. My face in your dead butt. Your dead butt in my face. So young. So smooth. Open wide, boy. All my butthole fantasies fulfilled. I want it all.

KinkyoverVienna – July 4, 2023
You want an even smaller dick than the less than stellar one you have now?

 

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mydarksecret, 21
It wasn’t until my last dominatrix gf who really tried to take me from straight skirtchaser to gay sub. I do not have physical experience but mentally she got me ready. It’s quite a story and is not all about not being ready to accept myself. I can explain in a chat about this but point is her focus was on making me a fag. It’s a journey I want to continue and I have long way to get to where I want to be.

We aren’t together anymore but now I fantasize about being converted to gay.

I’m not from Vegas but travel there to get drunk a lot.

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mydarksecret (Owner) – July 13, 2023
Okay, I’m gay. There I said it.

Ollie – July 11, 2023
Fag, can’t even

lkj59404 – July 9, 2023
Unfortunately, have sex with him very carefully because he is exceptionally clingy.

iwilluseyounow – July 6, 2023
Sure seemed to me like you’re already a fag unless I missed something.

 

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Enjoy-the-vibe, 20
🚽m find 💩

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Enjoy-the-vibe (Owner) – July 15, 2023
I’ve been trying to be a 24/7 toilet for years but now I realize it won’t be possible, at least not until I move again. I naively thought that settling in the countryside would bring me a certain peace of mind, in fact, it is quite different.

Enjoy-the-vibe (Owner) – July 13, 2023
I am very happy you allowed you to be yourself in my surroundings.

Feeder_Bln – July 13, 2023
am totally flashed after driving out to bumfuck nowhere to shit in him. felt super close and comfortable. was much more intense than i hoped. i see it as a privilege to have fed him

 

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AustinGreene, 19
Pretty simple. I’m here to get rid of a slave I have. It’s just holes that I’m over with and giving away. See the profile pics. I’ll send pics of its holes upon request.

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AustinGreene (Owner) – July 6, 2023
He is gone and that means I am whole.

HankSmith – July 3, 2023
Like that is remotely a problem!

AustinGreene (Owner) – July 3, 2023
Other than its holes it’s just a porn addicted femmy goontard.

HankSmith – July 3, 2023
Holy fuck! You’re insane. I’ll take it in a heartbeat.

 

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Hello👋World🌎, 18
Career and success-driven “straight acting” teen dude looking for a Master in Canada who is into genital mutilation and who will make me his bitch and cut off my dick.

I have 2 hearts beating in my chest. I’m struggling between those 2. I know I can’t have it both ways. So, I’m not sure where the future will lead me. My two contradictory life goals are:

1. I want a career-driven life founding my own business and driving my own company’s revenue higher and higher. I want total financial independence.

2. I want to be a 24/7/365 gay sex slave. I would sacrifice my dick for my Master! There is only one dick in our relationship and that is yours! The hunger to lose my dick (penectomy) is pervasive, and quite frankly and ironically it makes me rock hard.

As you can see, both of those goals are contradictory. So, please be aware of that when contacting me. I really don’t know what I want from life and whether I should abandon either one of those life goals.

However, I really really want to serve a lifetime Master and lose my dick. If you can convince me to dedicate my life to this, I’m all ears. Convince me and make me your dickless bitch for real!

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Hello👋World🌎 (Owner) – July 26, 2023
I have been told this is about to happen to me. I’m very scared. But not scared enough to say “no”.

Hello👋World🌎 (Owner) – July 17, 2023
I have lived with gay guys before. I’ve experienced being kissed, massaged, given oral and receiving anal. I didn’t enjoy it but if my dick wasn’t there being so critical of everything I might.

 

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juan, 21
I’m muscled latino boy. I’m alone and poor boy. I’m slave for many men. I was also master for one old man (shown on the pics) but he died. Do you like sex me torture me and stab my chest my belly cut off my eight inch dick and more sir. How do you want to kill my naked body sir.

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wipeout – July 2, 2023
If anyone else gets hard and cums when imagining decapitating this boy’s head, or thinks about what it would be like to kiss it, or gets hard imagining sliding your dick into its mouth, or fantasizes about two men having sex, then bringing his decapitated head into it and having an orgy, or thought about french kissing his decapitated head while another huge dick fucks the neck and you lick his cum off the head of his dick through this decapitated boy’s mouth, or imagine sleeping naked and holding his decapitated head as a teddy bear/sex toy to rub on your hard dick at night or for some late night oral sex, or absolutely HATE seeing his head alive and attached to his body in those fotos, then we should chat.

Deluzional – July 2, 2023
Does anyone remember or have the video that used to be on bestgore where a latino teen guy is on the ground getting torn to shit by an axe? His screams were awesome. I havent been able to find it.

notyourx – July 2, 2023
I would like to stomp you to pulp with my steel toe boots, and then eat the pulp.

juan (Owner) – July 2, 2023
By day I’m an unremarkable supermarket clerk.

buffedbeachguy – July 2, 2023
You’d have a Perfect dead Body

 

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askmepersonally, 20
I’m a messed up boy that’s put on this planet for who knows what. I wanna be “kidnapped” tied up and used like a slave with 0 free will. I’ve got a shitty immune system so I can’t do any penetration involving penises. I’m happy with anything else. I can only be used for short amounts of time on certain days so use me while you can. I’m also paralyzed from the waist down but everything down there still looks great and I can still half-feel everything.

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sperm666 – July 20, 2023
Like, a lot is interesting with him.

Nordstorm – July 16, 2023
There are few things hotter in this world than a cute paralyzed boy with a shitty immune system.

askmepersonally (Owner) – July 14, 2023
Last night a man said “Oh holy God” as he slid into my hole. I knew that meant he was gonna bust in three pumps, and it REALLY stroked my ego that even though I can’t feel it anymore, my hole is still velvety smooth and hot!

 

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Notheretoliveuptoyourwackideasofhotornot, 19
His name is Jordy, 19, bisexual, slim average body, little body hair, 6″ inch cut dick, boxy ass.
Jordy likes the occult, the paranormal, spirituality, ancient languages and the ancient beliefs of the ancient world.
He studies and researches the most important books of the ancient Middle East, so call him interesting.
About a week ago Jordy was with his boyfriend and his boyfriend’s 12 year old brother and all three of them got completely SHITFACED.
Jordy’s boyfriend passed out and one thing led to another and he and the 12 year old ended up having sex and not just for a few seconds but all night.
Jordy and his boyfriend haven’t talked since and the 12 year old is in love with Jordy now.. so he fucked that up too.
Jordy’s boyfriend is looking for someone sadistic willing to teach Jordy a thing or two about what being a pedophile deserves, with some physical demonstration.
Multiple lessons are probably necessary.

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SirCharles – July 17, 2023
I am only temporarily controlling this pedo & storing it at a motel near Richmond for the time being. I can host there tonight/tomorrow or elsewhere at a neutral location for interested Owners to inspect, test, and use the pedo before any relocation of the merchandise as discussed/agreed upon. Also willing to have the pedo meet with interested Master virtually (skype, wickr, telegram, kik, etc.) before final approval if needed. Can relocate the pedo anywhere within the US, or arrange for the pedo to be picked up and taken away. Can discuss if/when we get there.

Caution: Don’t drink or do drugs when using this pedo because if you don’t keep a firm grip on reality you’ll end up accidentally killing him, no joke.

HorrorNerd – July 8, 2023
I enjoyed degrading and humiliating him. I mean I REALLY enjoyed it a lot!

 

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CarpetFag, 18
My face was born to LITERALLY be a silent crashed choked stomped carpet on the floor.
I am NOT looking 4 sex cause carpets don’t deserve 2 see or breathe a thing but the soles of the shoes of real men on the floor.
Carpet will not talk, not look in ur eyes, not move from carpet.
When u have guests/sleep/go out u can store me in ur shoe closet.
U just go and have sex with other teenagers. Not my business.
I am 8.5” hung but it’s only for show.

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CarpetFag (Owner) – July 7, 2023
Am also wanting a boyfriend getting too weird now?

CarpetFag (Owner) – July 5, 2023
If it matters I’m a nonbinary genderqueer musical theatre nerd witch.

 

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90Volt, 18
I’m glad I found this gay community, I believe it’s the only alive online community. I’d like to share my story.

I’m the slave of a 49yo man with alphism. This means his melanin gene is mutant so he can’t produce it in adequate quantities. I suppose you’re familiar with the term albino. His eyes are red (no color pigments for blue, black, brown or whatever). His eyebrows are completely white. His hair is various shades between blond and white and of course his skin is very pale.

As a slave this excites me in many ways. Sometimes I fantasise that he’s from some very strange foreign country. Sometimes he’s the grotesque “product” of incest. Sometimes I pretend he’s the devil. Sometimes I fantasize he’s from outer space and that I’m being fucked by an “alien”. And so on.

I just wanted to share that story among men who might understand. But if any of you are excited and want to come over and use me with him, that can be arranged.

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ilikedudes – July 21, 2023
You smelt my mind with the XTC of arousal.

 

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Drugmeuseme, 19
Last April, I was been strangled out and shot in the head by a trick that cause my death before doctors saved me…What a Tragic Experience…but first AND Foremost I’d Like to THANKS EVERYONE for youre Hopes and Prayer

Life after Death… I just saw my self lying-in a Dark and solid stone But I feel cold and feeling that I was center in a Stagnant Lake, I see nothing But All of my self…But I saw In the Sky the Earth it self, the sky the stars and even the galaxy thats very
Near from me… Just I saw lot of people dying in a flame! When a comet that strike the earth with no! Flame. The earth banished and everyone just change to shadows talking! Playing! Just like normal lives but just only Shadows

I’m Glad to back my real dimension…

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DomDad2023 – July 13, 2023
Youre astonishing! hope there will be no more accident…heheheh!

Drugmeuseme (Owner) – July 13, 2023
NEXT TIME I never look for men in the dark websites… where snuff is so much prone…

Faulty – July 13, 2023
Hahaha!!! Youre experience is so Cute dude just like you…Well hope it will never happened again…

Drugmeuseme (Owner) – July 13, 2023
Hehehehe! Thanks for the corrections of my english…IM STILL HAVE A BRAIN AND MEMORY DIFFICULTIES…THAT NEEDS SOME MORE TIME OF EXERCISES… BUT STILL IM HAPPY IM BACK…ALTHOUGH IM STILL IN THE HOSPITAL FOR MY PHYSICAL THERAPHY, AND PSYCHOMETRY. AND AFTER THIS IM GOING TO COURT AND TO OUR POLICE HEADQUARTERS

innervator – July 13, 2023
so hard to read..made no sense..BRAINS!

 

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somefuckingidiot, 19
Very open to suicide if anyone wants it

You have to drunk with me though whiskey gallons

I provide you drink and you give me gun, kill myself

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Guyyouknow – July 20, 2023
Don’t mind me i’m just 🪟shopping.

 

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himynameisjack, 18
I am into being physically and emotionally abused in a massive way.

I was told my body was meant to be kept naked, molested, used and consumed 24/7 when I was 13. They were right.

Now that I am 18, I believe it’s time to make this an effective reality.

Non smoker here.

Want to force me to bob for apples blindfolded in a barrel of piss? Do it.

Want to put me in a hole in the ground and vomit all over me and bury me alive? Do it.

My only limit is facial appearance changing.

No interest in your money, please don’t offer, it’s weird.

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BoyStrangler – July 17, 2023
Daniel Lee Siebert. Siebert was on death row at Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama when I was tasked with requesting him to provide a drawing of a “tree, man, and house” by a psychiatrist I worked for who acted as an “expert witness” in testimony before court to reverse death penalty cases, changing them to life without parole.

Over several years Siebert wrote me over a hundred letters, which I provided to the psychiatrist. He also mailed me dozens of beautiful drawings of male teenagers sodomized, mutilated, hung or shot. Siebert alleged he killed over 60 teenage male prostitutes, never providing enough detail regarding the locations of the crimes nor positive identification of the victims.

He preferred hanging and garotting, and severed the genitals of the teenage boys and ate them. The boys were bound with wrists behind their backs and were garrotted while he penetrated them attempting to ejaculate inside them at the moment they died, experiencing the final spasm of the teen’s rectal muscles at the moment of death. “At that moment,” he said “I felt their souls become one with my own.” He stated that he kept the dead bodies until they began to rot having anal intercourse with all until they became putrid.

corpsebreeder – July 17, 2023
Hey, BoyStrangler, just wondering, who is your favorite Serial Killer? Mine is Dean Corll.

BERSERKER – July 16, 2023
I’m not a penis fan, but his is kind of cute. When it’s hard, mind you. When it’s soft, ugh.

BoyStrangler – July 9, 2023
I started wanting to beat up cute young guys a long time ago and decided to do it with someone. I do not know what other men are mainly looking for with this guy, but I can say with confidence that I was not interested in an insensitive hookup. I just refuse to understand beating someone up without feelings. But I’m not judging anyone lol. I would tell you more about what I did to him and this comment would be very huge, but it makes no sense since I do not know if anyone on this site will be interested. I’m afraid to seem long, boring and tedious. I’ll finish with that.

 

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Preachy, 22
I am a conscientious, ambiverted, androromantic and androsexual, agnostic atheistic, right-libertarian anarcho-capitalistic and anarcho-individualistic, essential minimalistic, health-consciously sober vegan, anti-vaccinationist terrain theory advocating, cisgender male, ordinarily masochist-leaning and seeking a consensual, long-term, monogamous, childless, irreligious partnership — maintaining a mutualistic organically Dominant/submissive power dynamic — with a degree of interpersonal commitment akin to marriage.

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Cinephile – July 7, 2023
i dated him for 2 years but we broke up because hes mean

Yodi – July 7, 2023
you must be angry, resentful and be able to override his mind or he will make a mockery of the proceedings.

 

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ouchthatshot, 19
Have a stupid fag son (you heard me) who is finally learning his place in the world. Need help teaching him, stretching him, abusing him, wrecking him. Could be a simple pump & dump to a long destructive session. No limits. Scarier is better. Love hooding him and having guys come over and decimate him. Like hearing him whine and cry and retch and screech.

Hosting at Hilton Union Square in SF right the fuck now.

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Brain3 – July 12, 2023
I’ll take him.

SpunPartySlut – July 12, 2023
I’ll take him.

Architect – July 12, 2023
I’ll take him.

ouchthatshot (Owner) – July 12, 2023

takeItHard – July 12, 2023
Man, maybe, but it’s hard to tell from those pix you uploaded. You got anything that shows him better?

ouchthatshot (Owner) – July 12, 2023
I honestly want to get my son out of my life, meaning never let see him again, KNOW NOTHING about him again whatsoever!! I mean as in taken forever and never let out again or ever found again or heard of by me again. Is anyone that into him? If you’re not, then could you point me in the right direction please??? I’m actually very serious about this.

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your-alibi, 20
As you may have gathered, I’m not a real girl. But I’m indistinguishable from a real girl! At least as long as I’m not naked 😂. I’m looking for a man and is looking for a girl who is not a girl who he can date publicly as a girl while having huge amounts of secret sex with a boy. If you’re that man I am the perfect alibi.

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ShadowBlack – July 22, 2023
I’ve got everything i need in this life except for you joining me in my castle dungeon.

 

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BreakableBoy, 20
It’s was a great night having good sex at the party with some of my colleagues’ dads but the next day anyone that I text don’t reply, so I decided to make new fuckfriends cause the future is exciting, Ready?

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BreakableBoy (Owner) – July 20, 2023
Thanks, baby 😘😘😘😘😘

holyfucker – July 20, 2023
I love to ride his asshole like a bicycle, and shoot in my cums in it so much, also i like to open his asshole into two part make him screaming on bed that really get me more hotter then i can fuck him long and longer and longest on bed.

BreakableBoy (Owner) – July 19, 2023
I have a monogamous relationship with a boyfriend. He fucks me all the time and I love it. I have the best ass he’s ever gotten apparently and I am probably overly proud of that. Yes, I’m serious, I’m taken and cannot have sex with any more of you!

BreakableBoy (Owner) – July 10, 2023
What I have been talking about is what you want and have never done for whatever reason.

BreakableBoy (Owner) – July 9, 2023
You can brainwash my mind but leave part of it because I’m in college.

4fleshpocket – July 8, 2023
He’s a wordy twatsack you’ll feel desperate to punctuate.

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Well, you know I’m a massive Clementi fan. It has been fully established that he didn’t die of AIDS. ** Ben Lipkin, Hi, Ben, welcome! Thank you for entering here. He’s one of my very, very favorite filmmakers too, and a personal great hero. Thanks so much! Obviously, feel very more than free to come back in anytime. What’s going on? Take care. ** Dominik, Hi!!! You are of course most welcome. Donald Pergoll doesn’t ring a bell, yeah. How interesting. How was your weekend? Is it cooling down there yet? Love who’s a girl who is not a girl who one can date publicly as a girl while having huge amounts of secret sex with a boy, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. I just heard a bit of the new Aphex Twin, and, yes, it’s exciting. Good old him. ** Mark, Hi. Oh, wow you’re from my hood. My LA pad is on Ambrose just east of Vermont. Titters and gratitude about the zine. Yeah, the Printed Matter is soon, isn’t it? Great week’s start to you. ** Dee Kilroy, Hey, Dee. ** Bill, I recommend seeing more of the films he directed if want more of him + bizarre. I heard about that ‘Midnight Cowboy’ doc. I’m currently on the hunt to see the new Sid Barrett doc, which does not seem to be very accessible. ** Montse Meneses Vilar, Montse! Whoo-hoo! Hey, pal! We’ve been on a short break from film editing, but we restart this week. It goes well, I’m very excited. You’re coming here! I’m pretty sure I’ll be here, yes, as my summer plans are just to stay here and work on the film. And now that I know you’re coming, I’ll make absolutely sure. Great, great news! Let me know when you’re here and where you’ll be and so on and so forth so we can make plans. I can’t wait! It’s been forever! Love, me. ** Darby Der Kunstler 🎅, Now that’s a great and appropriate moniker. And always nice to see Santa. Jonny Luke’s: noted. Thanks! Yum! Sculpting seems tricky. Yeah, demystification is a good idea. Well, with friends, I mean. Well, with good friends. Five miles! Whoa! I start two get sunburned if I walk down the street for too long. Too long being, like, for a half an hour. Or less. My weekend was pretty ok. Saw friends, did some nice but not that interesting to hear about things. I’ll try to score a bat for you, but those little fuckers are fast, and my arms are not long enough! Whoa, Scully looks totally great! What are you going to do further with him? Oh, mohawk, gotcha. I mean he’s pretty effective already. He makes me long for Halloween even more than I had been doing. Thank you a lot! Go, go, it’s terrific! ** Charalampos, Thanks, glad you liked it. As open as possible: totally. The supreme goal. Mm, I’m not sure if I exactly know what you mean about having things inside us that are from another source. I guess I think artists can absorb everything and it becomes theirs as long as they reinvent it through their natural uniqueness or something. My weekend was nice, I don’t know it was cute. A cute weekend sounds good, though. Maybe I can figure out to have one of those. I hope yours was cute. Zac gets back tomorrow, so we’ll start working on the film again in a couple of days. The bulk of the film is far along and just needs fiddling and refining. I mean in the edit. There’s still a lot of special effects work and sound mix/design and color correction left to do. Thanks! Mellow, temperate Paris vibes. ** Nasir, Hi. Pictures of whatever: I like that. My weekend: I saw a visiting friend a couple of times. I walked in the Tuileries. I went to the fun fair again. I wrote a little. I tried to solve film problems. I rewatched one of my all-time very favorite films (James Benning’s ’11 x 14′) which was just uploaded onto the internet for the first time ever. Stuff like that. May loveliness be heavily in store for you until the universe explodes. ** Okay. Yes, end of the month = your slave batch for July. See you tomorrow.

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‘The cinema of Pierre Clémenti resists easy comprehension in much the same way its maker resisted society

‘Perhaps best known for his role in Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour, Clémenti the actor was also an ardent creator who sought to explore cinema’s intrinsic connection with the subconscious, a relationship often made literal in his distinctly, deliberately avant-garde works. Hindsight sees these films as distinct creations of their time, ready to be dismissed by those who see only the counterculture elements long since rendered cliché. Treading arguably pretentious and fatuous grounds, Clémenti’s smorgasbord utilization of sight and sound demands one engage it on its own ever-shifting terms, which routinely break the fourth wall and were surely made with the intention of being experienced under the influence. Viewed sober, his films (considered here are four works: Certificate No. X, New Old, In the Shadow of the Blue Scoundrel, and Soleil) remain trips whose nature transcends traditional designations of good or bad; as if finally escaping a hazy, disorienting fog, the only word I could use to describe them is essential.

‘Certificate No. X is broken up into two separate works that, while bearing separate names, Visa de Censure No. X and Carte de Væus, and filmed eight years apart (1967 and 1975, respectively), render what appears in context to be a seamless whole. Seamless, however, is hardly a word to use in describing a viewing experience that makes everything from Un Chien Andalou to Inland Empire look relatively straightforward by comparison. Commencing with the image of a nude man (Clémenti himself, a regular in his films) exiting the mouth of a cave (Plato’s, perhaps?), Visa de Censure quickly lobs the viewer into a tailspin of psychedelic imagery both thrilling and exhausting. Images of war, religion, oppression, and frank nudity are interspersed with a stylistic freefall of strobe lighting, camera filters, layered shots, and scoping effects, among others. The effect is less powerful in any given instance than it is as a cumulative, primordial mood piece, though several key images leave a lasting impression (a face is juxtaposed over simmering flames, a man “plays” a woman with a violin bow, etc.). Steadily, a theme of broad enlightenment emerges: Obsession with circles gives way to eyes and spectatorship, and the film wordlessly speaks to the necessary union held between the art, the artist, and the viewer.

‘The smooth transition into Carte de Væus suggests a deliberate comedown from the preceding hysteria. Warm images aplenty (including the face of a girl Clémenti was obviously enamored with, at least as a subject) don’t negate the heavy lifting, however, a quality humorously acknowledged by the image of a white bunny being forcibly pushed along toward the inevitable rabbit hole. Coming on the heels of Visa de Censure No. X, an experience that initially suggested the freak-out sequences of Ken Russell’s Altered States, Carte de Væus is something singularly unique, and Clémenti pulls out all the stops in establishing a self-serving mythological tone (the same can be said for all of his works to some extent). Words flash across the screen as additional mood enhancers atop images as far ranging as that of an animated skiing penguin and an impromptu shot of a vagina. As art goes, the entire Certificate No. X is most certainly fubar. It’s up to each viewer, I suppose, to determine whether that’s a good thing or not.

‘New Old, from 1979, is described as Clémenti’s autobiography, but viewers hoping for something more narratively straightforward might be disappointed to instead find a work merely somewhat less diffuse than its predecessor(s). Assembled from the approximately 15 hours of footage Clémenti shot during a self-described nomadic existence (carefree frolicking, streaking, and dancing abounds), the hour-long feature bears witness to an unflinching life of exploration complete with an ongoing creative struggle and insatiable longing for truth. The framing device of a writer at his typewriter is both appropriate and, scantly returned to, only vaguely literal. New Old‘s bombardment is more controlled and, ultimately, more scintillating than Certificate No. X‘s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach, tapping into a dreamlike euphoria as it utilizes similar techniques with greater focus as well as a number of devices from the silent era’s bag of tricks (the use of a negative shot recalls Nosferatu, but a simple effects shot involving Satan on a beach is my favorite). The film doesn’t end so much as eventually wind down, affirming the work of an artist as a lifelong endeavor. The words of Robert Altman hover about the proceedings: “Retirement? you’re talking about death, right?”

‘The closest Clémenti ever came to making a traditional film was In the Shadow of the Blue Scoundrel (shot and assembled from 1978 through 1985), a noir-ish tale of social dystopia and political espionage, the subversions of which are probably all the greater for their relatively straightforward presentation. Placed in the fictitious Necro City and starring Clémenti as the city’s military leader General Nutsbody, Blue Scoundrel is less stylistically assaulting in composition, but its ramshackle appearance (fish eyed lenses, over- and underexposed images, cheap effects and makeup, etc.) are both oddly poetic and appropriate to the storyline, suggesting that the film itself is the product of revolution. Amid a plot involving drugs, murder, and hidden motives, what stands out is the voiceover used to increase dramatic momentum, while the looping used for dialogue, while probably a budgetary necessity, further suggests that the film is little more than its maker’s id poured directly onto the screen.

‘For an artist so purely guided by creative self-actualization, it seems obvious that his final work, the short film Soleil, would be his masterpiece. Released in 1988 (11 years before his death at the hands of liver cancer), it is a breathless outpouring of exquisitely rendered philosophical rhetoric comprised more of questions than answers, delivered here in the form of a stream-of-consciousness voiceover set to personally and politically appropriate imagery. In its dogged quest for truth, it encapsulates an entire worldview, and to attempt to further put the experience in words would be both futile and an affront against its purity of essence. The use of footage from the previous three films shows an artist both resourceful and daring, one who cares not what you think of him, only that he might force you to truly think in the first place.’ — Rob Humanick, Slant Magazine

 

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Further

Pierre Clément @ imdB
Blow up – Pierre Clémenti par Ange Leccia
PIERRE CLÉMENTI: THE UNRELEASED REELS
Hommage à Pierre Clémenti
PIERRE CLÉMENTI TRAVERSE LE MIROIR.DANDY DESTROY, ACTEUR REBELLE DE BUÑUEL ET PASOLINI, IL S’EST ÉTEINT À 57 ANS.
SEDUCED BY PIERRE CLÉMENTI
¡Encerradlos a todos! Pierre Clémenti
Pierre Clémenti | Rapporto Confidenziale
Pierre Clémenti: Un acteur engagé au cinéma comme dans la vie
The Passion of Pierre Clémenti: European cinema’s christ-devil child
Pierre Clementi Fan Site 1 (French)
Pierre Clementi Fan Site 2 (French)
Pierre Clementi entries @ CinebeatPierre Clementi Facebook Page
Cinememorial: Pierre Clementi
The CV of PC’s son Balthazar Clementi

 

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Extras

P.Clementi J.P Kalfon B.Ogier on LSD FREAKBEAT PSYCH

Pierre Clementi, l’absolue liberté (extrait avec Philippe Garrel)

Pierre Clementi’s Grave

 

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Conversation between Pierre Clémenti, Miklos Janscó, Glauber Rocha and Jean-Marie Straub (1970)

 

Pierre Clémenti: When people discover cinema, they will change, creating their own cinema.

Jean-Marie Straub: And that’s exactly why they’re not allowed to find out at the moment. Because those bastards smell good, they have a good sense of smell. And it is also because of this that it is dangerous for intellectual critics to start saying that we are making films for a minority, etc. They line themselves up with this prohibition. But when the people – I don’t like the word “masses” – discover cinema, then something will happen…

Miklos Jancsó: It’s almost the same betrayal as when intellectuals were confronted with Nazism. It is clear that the critics, the intellectuals, are on the side of…

Straub: Unconsciously. Without realizing it, they support the system by spouting the same old nonsense…

Clémenti: When people see a film, they experience a sort of identification, they are influenced by the star of the film. I think that when people start filming with their own cameras, when they point them at their families, their homes, their jobs, something will click in their heads, they will discover that in films there is nothing see …

Straub: They’ll find that everything shown in the movies is completely irrelevant, it’s just rhetoric. Rhetoric that turns into a complete void. What I call “pornography”. People are going to find that under the name of “art” it’s pornography thrown in their face, that commercial cinema is nothing but rhetoric, pornography, illusion.

Glauber Rocha: This terrorism directed against cinema is unfortunate. Unfortunately the moment when we classify a film as “artistic”. Because nobody talks about “artistic” paintings, or “artistic” novels, or poems – but they talk about “artistic” films. This is already a pejorative judgement… And contradictions end up emerging from this terrorism that has been imposed for reasons of economic interest. And then there is something even worse: the total ignorance of producers and managers. They are completely illiterate – not all of them, but 99% of them. They don’t know the basics of how things work…

Jancsó: No, that’s not it. For these people, cinema is a completely different thing. It’s power, it’s…

Clémenti: For people, cinema is what they don’t see on TV. As TV brings them what they usually find in the cinema, sooner or later they won’t move from home. They will go directly to the factory. Television will be the new divine machine that will satisfy them, that will satisfy all their desires. Cinema will disappear. It’s a possibility, because I’m sure if very smart people get hold of TV, it will become something very powerful, fabulous, colossal. When TV regains all its power, everyone, everyone who works will be taken back to their ghetto. It will alienate entire nations, people will no longer go out except to go to the factory – they will be completely alienated by a machine, which will take the place of religion, stories, big stories. I believe that the only art capable of combating this today is cinema. At least cinema as a logical extension of what is happening today.

Hartog: A lot of young people today are making films outside of industry structures. They argue that the idea of a 90 minute film is a commercial idea. They do underground movies or newsreels or things like that. Do you think this is a good direction or not?

Clémenti: When people see an underground film, they suddenly realize that they could do the same, or even better. And that’s the stimulus it takes to make them buy a small camera. These young filmmakers who spend one or two years finding the money to finish their films… A super 8 or 16mm camera allows them to make the film they want, and just for that, underground cinema is revolutionary. And underground cinema also has something positive in that it awakens something in people’s minds.

Rocha: I generally agree with Pierre, but there are two ways of seeing cinema. One as a means of expression, like literature, to which everyone has access, and the other as a profession. When cameras are as easily purchased as typewriters or pens, people will use sights and sounds to write letters. But in literature, there are those who write poems, essays, novels, plays… Me, I’m a professional.

Straub: And that’s exactly why I wanted to make my last film (Othon, 1970) in 16mm. Just to show that it’s not someone who plays such and such a role in the cinema, but that anyone can do it. It’s not complicated – anyone could have made a film like this.

Rocha: You absolutely have to see this film. Its very important. It’s an evolution of technology…

Straub: There was no set – we shot everything on location. The only danger of underground cinema is that it is underground cinema. There are already trusts and monopolies planning to grab hold of it, transform…

Clémenti: But it has already happened. Books are over. Books will disappear to make way for libraries of super 8 films. In America now there are super 8 cameras that develop 1000 ASA and are inflated to 35mm. So I am convinced that the film industry will completely change, and that it will expire…

Straub: It will colonize the underground…

Rocha: You can’t show an underground movie on Broadway, the same way you can’t bring a Hollywood movie to American campuses. Because the underground market is already there…

Clémenti: On all American campuses, you can show underground films.

Rocha: But, you see, it’s already a system, an industry…

Clémenti: It is an alternative society which is only at the beginning, and which attacks the system – whether it is positive or negative does not matter. So far, it’s positive…

Rocha: No, at the moment I feel like everything is against Hollywood. It’s very positive…

Clémenti: I think giants like Paramount are falling apart right now. Because of what ? Because people have made low-budget movies and made millions. The big studios don’t know what to do anymore. They are finished.

Rocha: But I feel that the crisis in American industry is only illusory, and that underneath they hold everything very well…

Clémenti: No, American cinema is screwed…until it finds, reinvents a filmic language. But under the current conditions, all the major studios are disappearing.

Straub: They’ve been screwed for five years. And it will take ten more for them to let go.

Jancsó: This is a very serious problem for us – we are always bothered by international distributors. It’s true, it’s obvious. I don’t know what we can do, something has to be done. We must destroy…

Rocha: At the end of the day, it’s a political problem.

Clémenti: At the moment I can tell you that we are making ten million copies from a single recording, and there will be…

Rocha: Next year, with the arrival on the market of cassettes, there will be a distribution system for films on the same model as books.

Clémenti: Yes, there will be such a system, but only for films to be consumed, that is to say films that have contaminated everyone, all of human nature. More and more cinema is becoming an enterprise of cretinization. Except for the cinema linked to film clubs and that sort of thing, where everything that is projected is completely useless, where the sound is not heard, where the image is painful, the copies are terrible. For what ? Because young distributors don’t have the money to make good copies or don’t believe in it. And so we will have libraries of Super 8 films, with millions of copies of each. I think it’s the end of the film industry… There have been all these revolutionary upheavals. The cinema in France is more and more alienated, in harmony with television, with the TV channels. And I have the impression that the cinema which tries to relate to people, to change their consciousness, will be put aside. The worker who wants to buy a book will buy a film. But it will be circumscribed, because society knows very well that…

 

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28 of Pierre Clementi’s 111 films
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Luchino Visconti The Leopard (1963)
‘Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy’s Risorgimento—when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic Italy. Burt Lancaster stars as the aging prince watching his culture and fortune wane in the face of a new generation, represented by his upstart nephew (Alain Delon) and his beautiful fiancée (Claudia Cardinale). Awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, The Leopard translates Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel, and the history it recounts, into a truly cinematic masterpiece.’ — The Criterion Collection

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Luis Bunuel Belle de jour (1966)
‘He had a legend, the aura of genius, a friend to the mysterious and the strange. I arrived full of holy terror and mad hope all at the same time. I was struck immediately by one thing, only one: he’s a man of whom you only see the face. The fabulous mouth, worked by life, heavily wrinkled skin, the driven eyes, but in their black ring, a sparkling light. I was incapable of saying a word, I don’t even remember if it was a production office, an apartment, a hotel room. I looked at the deep earth of his face, the clear water of his regard. They told me ‘Speak loudly, we don’t know if he’s deaf or if he pretends to be . . .’ But how to speak? I repeated to myself ‘Come on. You have to speak.’ I thought that my silence and my insistence on staring would become intolerable. Someone else would surely have addressed me, would have started to speak, if only to reduce the tension a little. He was content to just look at me. Simply, directly, as if we had met there for a mutual exam and that words weren’t necessary. A guy walked in, perhaps an assistant, I can’t remember. Buñuel turned towards me. ‘This is Clémenti. Show him the script.’ If I understood properly, I had just been hired for Belle de Jour…With no other director did I have such a feeling of confidence.’ — Pierre Clementi

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Pierre Clementi Visa de censure n° X (1967)
‘Shot in 1967 but not released until 1975, actor Pierre Clémenti’s acid-infused experimental whirlwind of colour and music featuring a who’s who of the French 60s underground.’ — letterboxd

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Michel Deville Benjamin ou les mémoires d’un puceau (1967)
‘Pauline Kael wrote that Pierre Clementi “indicates adolescent innocence by being loose-limbed and girlish. It is essential for the boy to suggest the kind of man he will become once he has learned what everyone is so eager to teach him, but Clémenti looks as though he would become a lesbian.”‘ — collaged

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Bernardo Bertolucci Partner (1968)
‘Everyone agrees that the film is under the influence of Godard (one critic claims that Bertolucci is exorcising this influence; considering The Conformist, one must say the exorcism failed); but whereas Godard conceives of films in non-narrative terms, Bertolucci conceives of his in narrative terms but then goes and jerks up, obscuring, the storyline. Over time, he became more and more conventional and (presumably) himself. Giacobbe is funny when he boxes his own shadow or converses with himself aloud, attempting to spur his gumption; but the killer he becomes under the other Giacobbe’s tutelage is a bummer, however dazzling Pierre Clémenti’s double performance the year after his half-performance in Buñuel’s Belle de jour.’ — Dennis Grunes

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Pierre Clementi The Revolution is Only A Beginning. Let’s Continue Fighting (1968)
‘Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May ’68 and in Rome where the actor was featuring in the film Partner by Bertolucci.’ –– mubi

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Philippe Garrel Le lit de la vierge (1969)
‘I believe my point of view on the Christian myth is quite clear in LE LIT DE LA VIERGE (THE VIRGIN’S BED). It is a non-violent parable in which Zouzou incarnates both Mary and Mary Magdalene, while Pierre Clémenti incarnates a discouraged Christ who throws down his arms in face of world cruelty. In spite of its allegorical nature, the film contains a denunciation of the police repression of 1968, which was generally well understood by viewers at the time.’ — Philippe Garrel

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Luis Bunuel The Milky Way (1969)
‘The first of what Luis Buñuel later proclaimed a trilogy (along with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty) about “the search for truth,” The Milky Way (La voie lactee) daringly deconstructs contemporary and traditional views on Catholicism with ribald, rambunctious surreality. Two French beggars, present-day pilgrims en route to Spain’s holy city of Santiago de Compostela, serve as Buñuel’s narrators for an anticlerical history of heresy, told with absurdity and filled with images that rank among Buñuel’s most memorable (stigmatic children, crucified nuns) and hilarious (Jesus considering a good shave). A diabolically entertaining look at the mysteries of fanaticism, The Milky Way remains a hotly debated work from cinema’s greatest skeptic.’ — The Criterion Collection

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Pierre Clémenti La Deuxième femme (1969)
‘The reconciliation of the visual with the colorful psychedelic impulses of these luscious times… To find again the chant of origins, images that inscribe themselves in us like a double and that wave to us. To grope for… In the dark room of multinational ideas, I quiver and I mumble. Cinema of the inside and the outside, of the behind and the inside. In front of the magical mirror of multiple visions, I find the thread of my memory and open a little the family album of births and deaths. In front of the flood of multicolor impressions, cartoons, reanimated by passion and love of the man with the cardboard suitcase, I was waving my huge scissors and carving and re-carving like a sculptor inspired standing in front of his first work.’ — Pierre Clémenti

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Pier Paolo Pasolini Porcile (1969)
‘One of Pasolini’s most difficult films, Pigsty is made up of two parts which are intercut throughout the film: in Orgia (Orgy), set in a seemingly timeless Dark Age, Pierre Clementi plays a young outcast reduced by hunger to cannibalism. Porcile (Pigsty) is set in contemporary West Germany. Jean-Pierre Léaud plays the son of a powerful industrialist with Nazi ties. Unable to join or rebel against a world that repulses him, he indulges in his fetish for pigs. Clementi is ultimately set out as hyena fodder by an angry populace, while Léaud is devoured by his porcine companions. Rosalind Delmar writes for Monthly Film Bulletin: “It is certainly not a naturalistic film about cannibalism and bestiality, but much more about consumption and consciousness. Thematically and stylistically it is very much what we have come to expect from Pasolini’s later films: innocence, guilt, expiation, human isolation, the relation between social determination and human will, are again his themes.” On the film’s U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1969, Richard Roud noted, “What is certain is its compulsive and disturbing beauty. It may be unlovable, but it is triumphantly unforgettable.”’ — BAMPFA

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Peter Emmanuel Goldman Wheel of Ashes (1969)
‘All the American film-makers we admire came into the cinema young. Now they’re old but no one’s taking their place. When Hawks started out he was the same age as Goldman and Goldman is alone…There will be other great American film-makers (there’s already Goldman, Clarke and Cassavetes).’ — Jean-Luc Godard

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Bernardo Bertolucci The Conformist (1970)
‘Bernardo Bertolucci’s expressionist masterpiece of 1970, The Conformist, is the movie that plugs postwar Italian cinema firmly and directly into the emerging 1970s renaissance in Hollywood film-making. Its account of the neuroses and self-loathing of a sexually confused would-be fascist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) aching to fit in in 1938 Rome, who is despatched to Paris to murder his former, anti-fascist college professor, was deemed an instant classic on release. It was, and is, a highly self-conscious and stylistically venturesome pinnacle of late modernism, drawing from the full range of recent Italian movie history: a little neo-neorealism, a lot of stark and blinding Antonioni-style mise-en-scène, some moments redolent of Fellini. And it was all framed within an evocation of the frivolous fascist-era film-making style derided by Bertolucci’s generation as “white telephone” cinema. Add a dose of unhealthy sexual confusion and it’s hardly surprising that it was one of the international hits of the year. It also offered the blueprint for the new wave of Hollywood film-makers to a different kind of cinema and a roadmap of new formal possibilities – not merely for those of Italian descent such as Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese.’ — John Patterson

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Miklós Jancsó The Pacifist (1970)
‘From Italy, France and West Germany, and in the Italian language, Miklós Jancsó’s La pacifista revolves around Barbara, a journalist who becomes a target of the neo-fascist group she is covering. While it lacks the formal rigor of the filmmaker’s Hungarian masterpieces, it is a dazzling, enchanting piece of work, pulsatingly contemporary (circa 1970), increasingly frightening and suspenseful, poignant and pitiable. It’s a knockout.’ — Dennis Grunes

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Liliana Cavani I Cannibal (1970)
‘I cannibal (internationally released as The Cannibals and The Year of the Cannibals) is an Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani. It is inspired by the Antigone of Sophocles. The film competed in the Quinzaines des Realisateurs section of the 23rd Cannes Film Festival.’ — Wiki

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Maurizio Lucidi The Designated Victim (1971)
‘Tomas Milian portrays a cheating husband named Stefanio who falls into a strange relationship with the bohemian Count Mateo (Pierre Clementi) in this intriguing thriller. Earning his trust, Mateo lures Stefanio into a sick psychological game, offering to murder his wife so that the unhappy businessman can be free to pursue his beautiful mistress (Katia Christine). In return, he continues, Stefanio must kill Mateo’s brother. Stefanio laughs off the suggestion until the day that his wife is actually murdered and he becomes the prime suspect. As Stefanio’s troubles increase, Mateo applies more pressure, finally forcing his frantic, desperate victim to fulfill his part of the bargain. Fine performances and some blatantly Hitchcockian moments in Fulvio Gicca’s screenplay help to make director Maurizio Lucidi’s film tense and absorbing, if somewhat predictable.’ — Robert Firsching

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Philippe Garrel La Cicatrice intérieure (1972)
‘The proof of everything that I have advanced is The Inner Scar. The Inner Scar is a masterpiece for whomever does not understand German, it would seem2. Personally, I find this film a masterpiece. A total masterpiece. I can’t explain it… Suddenly, it’s mankind, the whole earth that speaks – the earth in the ancient sense of mother. But it is not even the earth that speaks, it is the humus… It’s incredible: everything is there.’ — Henri Langlois

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Dušana Makavejeva Sweet Movie (1974)
‘The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest escapes from a sexless marriage to an oil tycoon, has a wild affair with a famous rock star and settles in a radical commune. Meanwhile, a boat travels the canals of Amsterdam with a cargo of sugar, a demented crew, a revolutionary zealot captain and her lover, a refugee from the Battleship Potemkin. Makavejev’s bizarre and pointedly satirical vision is totally uncompromising and filled with shocking images.’ — TCM

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Fred Haines Steppenwolf (1974)
‘Faced with Hesse’s intensely introspective text about the intellectual and emotional crisis of a middle-aged man, Haines opts for a ’60s-ish semi-psychedelic approach, with some fetching animated interpolations, an amusing appearance by Clémenti, and a marginal, simplistic ‘let’s all get stoned’ moral. The latter aspect now looks distinctly corny, and some might regard it as a gross misreading of the original. But even the staunchest Hesse devotee will find compensations in Sydow’s characterisation and the comparative fidelity of the film’s first half.’ — Time Out (London)

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Frank Cassenti The Song of Roland (1978)
‘Frank Cassenti’s gorgeous The Song of Roland is not exactly an adaptation of the French medieval epic. Rather than taking place in the tenth century, as the eleventh-century poem does, it takes place in the twelfth. Peasants on a pilgrimage to a holy site are accompanied by a band of travelling players who enact the exploits of Charlemagne’s soldiers. Their journey is upheaved by a peasant uprising, costing the lives of some members. However, Klaus, the actor playing Roland des Roncesvalles (Klaus Kinski, tremendous), becomes a hero himself by taking up the peasants’ cause. Cassenti’s film is a meditation on life and art, but also on time and history. Filled with song and in-the-momentness, the pilgrimage seemingly suspends time, with its religious motive granting it an eternal component. The performances, though, enact a French history of war and betrayal.’ — Dennis Grunes

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Alain Fleischer Zoo Zero (1979)
‘Eva is a singer in a Noah’s Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She sings about a doomed love affair between a lion tamer and a lion. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart which she denies. Driven around in her midget manager’s limousine she encounters bizarre characters who turn out to belong to her incestuous family of ogres. All culminates in a bizarre finale in a zoo featuring Klaus Kinski and Pierre Clementi.’ — IMDb

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Pierre Clémenti New Old (1979)
‘Clémenti’s second film, New Old, is the chronicle of his life as an artist, and, like Visa de censure, it was shown in various cuts with live music before its final edit in 1979. Spanning the set of Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard, Maurice Béjart’s ballets, and an encounter with Viva in Andy Warhol’s New York, the film’s episodic quality evokes Clémenti’s peripatetic existence. Its narrative vignettes are Clémenti’s first use of voiceover, bringing intimate sentiment and somber tones to a more introspective work. This tendency comes to fruition in Soleil, Clémenti’s last film, said to be his favorite, and described as “if [Arthur] Rimbaud had gotten hold of a camera” by the Cinémathèque française. Reworking existing footage with new imagery, the film opens with a reenactment of Clémenti’s arrest and imprisonment in Rome in 1971. With melancholy and grace, he takes stock of a life lived on his own terms, no matter the cost: “Writing, painting, fighting in our prisons, I am trying to collect all these energies which time had scattered. […] Here lies Pierre Clémenti. The deceased was beloved, was perfect, to excess. And then what?”’ — MoMA

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Ange Leccia Stridura (1980)
‘In a desolated world, a martyr (Pierre Clementi) is steered by a man giving orders from a control room. His henchmen torture the resistance fighter. Are the parts played by victim and hangman defined as clearly as it seems? Ange Leccia offers a political reflection about the power of images and their manipulative force.’ — Ubuweb

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Philippe Puicouyoul La Brune et Moi (1980)
‘Modeled as a punk version of Frank Tashlin’s THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT (whose French title, LA BLONDE ET MOI, was an inspiration for the film), Philippe Picoyoul’s LA BRUNE ET MOI is the story of a young Parisian girl who wants to become a famous punk rock star. Pierre Clementi stars as an older businessman who falls for the girl (Anouschka), and is determined to make her the star she dreams of becoming. If the plot seems a little thin, it’s because it’s mostly a framework to show some blistering performances from now-obscure French punk/new wave bands, including Edith Nylon, Taxi Girl, Artefact, and Ici Paris. As Clementi and Anouschka bounce from scene to scene, bands perform around them as a part of their world. Even though Clementi often seems like an alien from another planet in most of his movies, he’s most out of place here; a pathetic, balding businessman in love with a scenester who is using him for his ability to make her famous. He does in fact become a creepy, surprisingly effective Svengali to his young protege. More than anything, LA BRUNE ET MOI is a love letter to, and an insider portrait of, a very specific scene that otherwise may have been lost to history.’ — Spectacle Theater

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James Ivory Quartet (1980)
‘Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is full of intense confrontations dazzlingly acted by Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Anthony Higgins, Pierre Clementi, and Isabelle Adjani. This is one of the Merchant Ivory team’s darkest and most compelling dramas of dangerously intertwined relationships.’ — The Criterion Collection

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Jacques Rivette Le Pont du Nord (1981)
‘If all of Le Pont du Nord’s games, rules, and neuroses point back to a single theme, it is the fear of death, and the possibility (or impossibility) of cheating it. It’s difficult to say more than that, because for everything you could say about Rivette’s attitude towards mortality, the opposite would likely be just as true. Death is the chief subject of comedy, and at the same time the tragedy for which all comedy exists to compensate; it’s something at once unspeakably awful and unspeakably trivial, unimaginable even as it serves as the basis for all other imaginings. When death does enter into Le Pont du Nord, it comes off as casual, arbitrary, and totally unnecessary, and we don’t know whether to be comforted by its mildness or horrified by its lack of weight. “Death can also be a beginning. Begin a new game,” Marie tells Baptiste as they pore over the map’s central square, the tomb. She pauses. “But in any case, it’s a very frightening game.”’ — Max Nelson

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James Toback Exposed (1983)
‘This wild ride, directed by James Toback, stars Nastassja Kinski as Elizabeth Carlson, an unhappy college student who flees to New York and becomes a famous model. But her rise is tinged with cloak-and-dagger tension, starting with the opening sequence of a bomb attack in Paris, and the resulting thriller is also an exemplary tale of leveraging celebrity into politics. Harassed and abused by a professor (played by Toback), Elizabeth drops out of school and makes her way to New York (Toback savors the mean streets). Working as a waitress, she’s spotted by a photographer, and her life changes—and then changes again when she’s stalked by a concert violinist (Rudolf Nureyev) with a sideline in terrorist-hunting, for which he recruits her. Toback skips the details of Elizabeth’s success in favor of the high-stakes maneuvers in its shadows, and, back in Paris, the director unfolds a breathtaking bag of tricks as the violence ratchets up. Tensely pendular tracking shots and deft full-circle pans mesh split-second action with a repressed romanticism; after a tautly efficient car chase, the inevitable conflagration yields a majestic, paranoid stillness.’ — The New Yorker

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Pierre Clémenti À l’ombre de la canaille bleue (1986)
‘Pierre Clémenti’s sole feature as a director is a dystopian crime story, inspired by William S. Burroughs, set in the underbelly of “Nécrocity.” In this fictionalized Paris, fueled by heroin and paranoia, an insurgent group (played by Clémenti’s inner circle) tries to keep one step ahead of the grip of state power, whose mastermind is a villainous military leader played by Clémenti himself. Shot in 1978–79, an early silent version was shown at the Centre Pompidou as a live happening with 20 musicians before the film’s eventual completion in 1985. Drenched in neon lights and leather, In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal evokes the New York No Wave scene while giving “the most punk, the most urban, and the most willingly chaotic portrait of Paris in the late 1970s.”‘ — Philippe Azoury

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Gillies Mackinnon Hideous Kinky (1998)
‘“Hideous Kinky” is neither hideous nor kinky. It’s also not terribly interesting. The film, directed by Gillies MacKinnon and based on Esther Freud’s autobiographical novel, takes place in Marrakech, Morocco, in 1972. This was a time when many people, including rock stars like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, retreated to Marrakech in order to “find themselves,” or whatever it was the hippies were doing in those days. Flower child Julia (Kate Winslet) is among this crowd, living out a day-to-day, rootless existence there with her two young children, Bea (Bella Rizza) and Lucy (Carrie Mullan). “Hideous Kinky” will probably be a nostalgia piece for those who participated in the hippie movement of the early ’70s, but there’s little else to engage anyone who can’t relate to hitchhiking through Marrakech.’ — Eric D. Snider

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p.s. Hey. ** Jack Skelley, Jackpan! Thanks for looking at them. And listening, duh. Awesome about the FOKA shebang success, and enjoy some rest. Yeah, I hate promoting my stuff. I’ve learned to walk through it. That’s probably half the reason I only have Facebook. But, yeah, the meeting people and finding out that people do like your stuff and who does is a big gift. Tips the balance ultimately. I saw Mr. Moore for coffee yesterday, so that part of your hope is accomplished, and I’ll look at art with him today, and I will most assuredly pass along your hey. Congrats in all caps! Love, me. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Among the most liveable, that’s an accomplishment. I wonder how France does. Seems pretty liveable to me. I turned down the volume on my phone, and now my ear’s fine. That’s funny, Zac is currently in the middle dog sitting for his dad in California for two weeks, but I don’t think it’s a mansion, although it is out in the woods, I think. Love making people who love Proust stop telling me I have to read him, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Howdy. Mm, thanks for helping me stick to my ‘Oppenheimer’ avoidance plan. ** Bill, Hi, B. Yeah, that Nauman is a stone cold classic. ‘Technically accomplished, but bloated and bombastic’ is Nolan’s bread and butter from everything I’ve seen. He’s like the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer of filmmakers. ** Steve Erickson, Hey. Everyone, Mr. Erickson’s brain has taken on the task of reviewing Carly Jepsen’s new one THE LOVELIEST TIME here. Yes, I read about the multi-director thing with Noe and whoever else. I think it’s about to show here somewhere. Thanks for the Christian Marclay on Night Music link. I haven’t seen that, but soon will. I believe they are the equivalent of giant smartphones, yes. I heard about the arrival of high heat upon your hood. If there was such a thing as an air-conditioner hat, I’d buy it for you, if it was affordable. ** ANGUSWHERE (HAVE YOU BEEN!!), Well, well, well! There you are! Hi, Ryan, awesome to see you after too long. I’m good. We’re on a short editing break with the film, but it’s going really well. Okay, your video sounds great, obviously, and I’m glad you successfully ditched its problematic accoutrements. Greatest luck with the album submitting too, again obviously. Excited to hear it eventually. You sound very revved and inspired, which is beautiful. Yay! Paris (and I) await. Take amazing care until next lucky time. ** Nasir, Hi. Nice, crash that shit. I think you’re right about Friday. It’s the entrance/exit day. Ideally, I’ll do the opposite of relax today, but we’ll see. Yes, I’ll get my brain detoxed of work-related mutations and read your piece soon. ASAP. What are you doing this weekend? Specialness, I hope. ** Tea, Hi. Ah, so that’s what you got you started. ‘Bully’, I mean. I wonder if Keanu himself didn’t shower for days in order to fully inhabit his character. Probably, right? It’s probably murderously hot in Vegas right now, so there’s that reason for you to celebrate, unless it’s murderously hot where you are. I am curious to take a gander at that new dome thing. ‘Enter the Void’ and nausea are probably not a good combination, so be sure. I’m going to eat the most amazing pastry I can find today in honor of your b’day weekend and christen it ‘Tea’ and wave it in the air in a celebratory manner before I destroy it with my stomach acids. ** Right. I have restored, updated, and expanded the blog’s old Day celebrating the godlike filmmaker, actor, dude, (and my own personal big hero) Pierre Clementi for you this weekend. Please take advantage, thank you, and see you on Monday.