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FLIX PIX (997): “David Lynch Takes a (Flawed) Stab at DUNE”

Posted on December 30, 2022 by KPKeelan

DUNE (directed by David Lynch, 1984) **** (out of 5) . > Having read the book in my teens, I made a beeline to the theater when his David Lynch epic science fiction fantasy hit the screens at Christmas, 1984. . … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Brad Dourif, cinema, criticism, David Lynch, Dean Stockwell, Dune, entertainment, epics, fantasy, films, Flix Pix, Frank Herbert, Freddie Jones, ideas, Jürgen Prochnow, Jose Ferrer, Kenneth McMillan, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kyle MacLachlan, Linda Hunt, Max Von Sydow, movies, mythology, opinion, Patrick Stewart, reviews, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Young, Sting, Virginia Madsen | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (856): “HAVE A GOOD TRIP: Adventures in Psychedelics”

Posted on October 21, 2022 by KPKeelan

HAVE A GOOD TRIP: Adventures in Psychedelics (directed by Donick Cary, 2020) ***+ (out of 5) . > Oh, how cool! This is a project I once had ambitions of undertaking myself, back in my days at the California Institute for … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Adventures in Psychedelics, Andy Richter, Anthony Bourdain, arts, Ben Stiller, Bill Kreutzmann, Carrie Fisher, cinema, criticism, David Cross, Deepak Chopra, documentaries, Donick Cary, Donovon, drugs, entertainment, films, Fred Willard, Have a Good Trip, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lewis Black, LSD, movies, Natasha Lyonne, Netflix, Nick Kroll, opinion, psychedelics, psychoactive substances, reviews, Rob Corddry, Rosie Perez, Sarah Silverman, Sting, stories, Will Forte, Zach Leary | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (669): “WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (is) A MAN WITHIN”

Posted on July 19, 2022 by KPKeelan

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN (directed by Yony Leyser, 2010) **** (out of 5) . > Influential iconoclastic gay poet, junky, writer, artist, philosopher, performer, rebel, critic, sinner, malcontent, scholar, gun-enthusiast and grandfather of punk William Severus Burroughs was born … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged A Man Within, Alan Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, arts, biography, cinema, criticism, David Cronenberg, Deborah Harry, films, Frank Zappa, Gus Van Sant, Hunter S. Thompson, ideas, Iggy Pop, Jack Kerouac, Jello Biafra, Joe Strummer, John Waters, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kurt Cobain, Laurie Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lou Reed, Michael Stipe, Mick Jagger, movies, opinion, Patti Smith, Peter Welles, pop icons, reviews, Sting, The Edge, William S. Burroughs, Yony Leyser | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (322): “QUADROPHENIA The Movie the Music’s Been Waiting For”

Posted on January 27, 2022 by KPKeelan

QUADROPHENIA (directed by Franc Roddam, 1979) **** (out of 5) . > The place is working class London. The time, 1965. Britain’s bored, alienated youth have split into two camps: scooter riding ‘mods’ and the oldschool ‘rockers’, leather-clad motorbikers, and they … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged criticism, England, films, Franc Roddam, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, London, mods, movies, music, opinion, Quadrophenia, reviews, rockers, Sting, The Who, youth | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (100): The Films of JUNE 2020

Posted on July 24, 2021 by KPKeelan

. JUNE 2020 was a busy film month! Not much else to do, if you have no sex partner and you can hardly heave the house! In this bunch, we get comedies, romances, dramas, animation, film noir, sci-fi, horror, caper … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 10cc, 8½, A Boy and His Dog, A Ship to India, Abbas Kiarostami, abuse, addiction, Adventures in Psychedelics, Akira Kurosawa, Alan King, And Life Goes On, Andy Richter, Andy Williams, animals, animation, Anthony Bourdain, ants, art, assistants, bank robbers, Barbara Bel Geddes, battle of the sexes, belief, belonging, Ben Stiller, betrayal, Bill Kreutzmann, biography, Birger Malmsten, Blake Edwards, Book of Exodus, brotherhood, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Bunny Lake is Missing, Burt Lancaster, Canadian films, capers, Carrie Fisher, celebrity, censorship, Cesar Romero, Chadwick Boseman, Charles Bronson, childhood, Christopher Walken, cinema, class, classics, Cold Turkey, comedies, coming of age, Communism, composers, crime, criticism, Czech cinema, Czechoslovakia, Da 5 Bloods, dada, Dan Duryea, Danny Kaye, Dash Shaw, David Cross, Deepak Chopra, Delmer Daves, Delroy Lindo, destruction, Dianne Foster, Diary of a Chambermaid, Dick Van Dyke, disaster films, documentaries, Don Johnson, Donald O’Connor, Donovon, drama, Drive a Crooked Road, drugs, Dyan Cannon, dystopia, earthquakes, Emilio D'Alessandro, emotion, environment, Ernest Borgnine, Experiment in Terror, faith, families, family secrets, fantasy, farce, fascism, fathers and sons, Federico Fellini, feminism, film history, film noir, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, folktales, Frankenstein, Fred MacMurray, Fred Willard, French cinema, friendship, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Gaza, Gene Kelly, General Francisco Franco, George C. Scott, Georgina Hale, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, God, God Went Surfing With the Devil, Guns N' Roses, Harlan Ellison, Have a Good Trip, Helen Gurley Brown, Henry Fonda, Herb Alpert, historical drama, Holger Löwenadler, hope, horror, humor, hunger, hypocrisy, ideas, identity, illness, Ingmar Bergman, injustice, insecurity, Iran, Iranian cinema, Israeli cinema, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jacques Tati, Jane Mansfield, Japanese cinema, jazz, jealousy, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Jesus, Jews, John Lennon, Jour de Fête, journalism, Judaism, Karl Malden, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, kidnapping, Kier Dullea, Kim Novak, Koker, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lacey Schwartz, Land Without Bread, Las Hurdes, Lauren Bacall, Laurence Olivier, L’Age D’Or, Led Zeppelin, Lee Marvin, Lee Remick, legends, Lewis Black, lies, life, Life and Nothing More, Little White Lie, Louis Armstrong, LSD, Luis Buñuel, Mahler, Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Martin Balsom, Mélanie Thierry, metaphor, Michael Murphy, Mickey Rooney, Miloš Forman, monsters, Moses, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, Natalie Wood, Natasha, Natasha Lyonne, Natural disasters, Netflix, Nick Kroll, Nigel Davenport, Nina Paley, Noel Coward, Norman Lear, Oingo Boingo, opinion, oppression, Otto Preminger, Palestinians, parenting, peace, people, Phase IV, poverty, psychoactive substances, psychological drama, PTSD, Pushover, Quincy Jones, race, racism, Ramón Acín, Red Nichols, relationships, religion, resilience, reviews, Richard Quine, Rob Corddry, Robert Powell, romance, Rosie Perez, Ross Martin, S is For Stanley, sacrifice, Salvador Dalí, Sarah Silverman, Satchmo, satire, Saul Bass, scandals, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Connery, Seder-Masochism, self doubt, Sex and the Single Girl, sexism, sexual politics, Sidney Lumet, sight gags, sisters, slapstick, smoking, social criticism, social justice, soldiers, Spain, Spanish cinema, Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stefanie Powers, Sting, stories, suffering, surfing, surrealism, surrealists, surveillance, suspense, Swedish cinema, symbolism, tabloids, teenage sexuality, teenagers, terrorism, The Age of Gold, The Anderson Tapes, the Bible, The Big Heat, The Burglar, the Church, The Firemen’s Ball, The Five Pennies, The Four Tops, The Hanging Tree, The Holy Land, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, The Pointer Sisters, The Spirit of the Beehive, the state, thriller, tobacco companies, Tony Curtis, tradition, tragedy, Tuesday Weld, Vera Cruz, Victor Erice, Vietnam War, violence, westerns, Will Forte, writer’s block, Zach Leary | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Sting

FLIX PIX (997): “David Lynch Takes a (Flawed) Stab at DUNE”

FLIX PIX (856): “HAVE A GOOD TRIP: Adventures in Psychedelics”

FLIX PIX (669): “WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (is) A MAN WITHIN”

FLIX PIX (322): “QUADROPHENIA The Movie the Music’s Been Waiting For”

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