World Famous Comics: Eric Ashelman End of the Road
Eric Ashelman End of the Road
Starring: Eric Ashelman, Ray Brock, Oliver Clark, James Coco, Gail Gibson Average Rating: Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape Format: Color, NTSC Label: Allied Artists Entertainment Number of Items: 1 Release Date: April 04, 1998 Running Time: 110 minutes Theatrical Release Date: February 10, 1970
Bad I watched this film six years ago. It still lingers in my mind and I would like to forget it, but can't since it was just so awful. Now I like Terry Southern as a writer but I don't know what he was thinking with this. I watched this movie before I read the book years later. (This movie kept me away from it.) Luckily it had no impact since it was barely based on it. John Barth's book was interesting and postmodern. Mainly it was a thinking piece which this movie failed to capture. (John Barth was ashamed of the movie.) The movie decided to create itself as chaos. If you thought the 60's had bad effects and would like proof here it is. Just ask yourself do you want to watch a movie where a person has sex with a chicken? This doesn't mean the movie's a shocker. The movie hasn't stood the test of time
A tattered signpost of late sixties indie cinema After working on Easy Rider, Terry Southern began collaborating with Aram Avakian on an intense adaptation of John Barth's debut novel. Shot in the summer and fall of 1968, when America was reeling from assasinations, the quagmire of Vietnam, rioting and ideological meltdown, the resulting film transforms Barth's existential character study into a chilling, visually stunning critique of political, sexual and cultural dysfunction. If the film's reach sometimes exceeds its grasp, there is still much that astonishes in this rarely screened film: the superb acting by Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones, Dorothy Tristan and Harris Yulin; the feature film debut of legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis; the haunting opening montage that relate's the lead's typical boomer upbringing against the horrorshow of post-WWII history; the music supervised by jazz producer George Avakian; and last, but not least, the uncompromising visionary screenplay by Terry Southern, Aram Avakian and Dennis McGuire. If you are a big fan of such end-of-sixties films as Performance and Two-Lane Blacktop, this is definitely your cup of tea.
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