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Let's Put The X Back In Xmas! ANDY WARHOL'S FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Let's Put The X Back In Xmas! ANDY WARHOL'S FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN Andy Warhol Helped Make Two of the Wildest Monster Movies. MICHAEL FLORES DEC 18 ∙ PREVIEW   READ IN APP   Watch FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN by clicking this link From Wikipedia: Flesh for Frankenstein is a 1973 horror film written and directed by Paul Morrissey. It stars Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Monique van Vooren and Arno Juerging. Interiors were filmed at Cinecittà in Rome by a crew of Italian filmmakers. In West Germany and the United States, the film was released as Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, though only the title Frankenstein appeared on the print itself, and was presented in the Space-Vision 3D process in premiere engagements. It was rated X by the MPAA due to its explicit sexuality and violence. In 1973 Paul Morrissey and Joe Dallesandro came to Italy to shoot a film for producers Andrew Braunsberg and Carlo Ponti. The original idea came from director Roman Polanski, who had met Morrissey when promoting his film What?, with Morrissey stating that Polanski felt he would be "a natural person to make a 3-D film about Frankenstein. I thought it was the most absurd option I could imagine." Morrissey convinced Ponti to not just make one film during this period, but two, which led to the production of both Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula. The staff included many Italians in the production, including Enrico Job as the production designer, pianist Claudio Gizzi for the score and special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi for the special effects. Warhol's contributions to the film were minimal, including visiting the set once and briefly visiting during the editing period. At first, Morrissey intended to rely on improvisation for the dialogue for his characters, but had to come up with a new method, as this would not work for some actors, such as Udo Kier. This led to Morrissey preparing the dialogue day-by-day, dictating it to Pat Hackett at his studio. Filming began on Flesh for Frankenstein on 20 March 1973. Watch FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN by clicking here Although Warhol was only minimally involved Director Paul Morrisey certainly understood Warhol’s perception of pop culture. Because of Warhol’s status today one hears comments like “Warhol made the soup cans, tricked everyone and made millions” the truth is his Brillo Boxes and soup cans didn’t sell. The Velvet Underground didn’t sell. His factory was always behind in the rent. The revolutionary aspect of his art is lost today and FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN had an impact that still lasts today, with a 93% rating on ROTTEN TOMATOES. The film, which was decimated at the time by critics and received an X rating, turns the Frankenstein myth upside down and is now considered a great monster movie. Weird as hell, but a cult classic. Below the payline you will also find ANDY WARHOL’S YOUNG DRACULA which has many of the same cast and crew as FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN. The Global Psychotronic Film Society is a spin off of The Chicago Psychotronic Film Society. We are preparing to launch a worldwide podcast hosted by Lauren Ashley. You can help by having a paid subscription to THE GLOBAL PSYCHOTRONIC FILM SOCIETY here on Substack. THE PSYCHOTRONIC GRINDHOUSE is coming, and you can be a part of it. Watch FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN click here Upgrade to paid Keep reading with a 7-day free trial Subscribe to The Global Psychotronic Film Society to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Start trial A subscription gets you: Subscriber-only posts and full archive Post comments and join the community   LIKE COMMENT RESTACK   © 2023 Michael Flores PO Box 167963, Chicago, IL 60616 Unsubscribe

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The Return Of Communism: Lenin And Stalin On The Rise

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more The Return Of Communism: Lenin And Stalin On The Rise It started with the art world and intelligentsia, it spread to college campuses and then the streets of America. Now it has gone mainstream. The return of communism. MICHAEL FLORES DEC 19   READ IN APP   In 2017 the anniversary of the failed Soviet Union brought with it an unusual artistic response. In the United States, government run arts councils flooded museums and galleries with money if they would do exhibits of kitschy propaganda posters from the Soviet Union. Stalin became the rage for the art world. In Russia however, the year was a time to remember those who died often for no reason by Communist oppression. Socialism, like any other religion, has many branches all competing for the title of the real socialist party. Marx was clear- until the entire world became socialist there could be no communism. To make that happen it would be up to the German worker to eliminate all practicing Jews, all Slavic people and all Blacks. This Marx believed, would make room for the German workers to colonize regions those groups lived in. Now you may be thinking, wait a second. How does that differ from Hitler? It doesn’t. Whether we are discussing National or International Socialism, which before World War 2 worked together and praised each other, keep in mind both Germany and the Soviets had agreed to attack Poland. Marx would have been appalled that the Soviet Union was the first nation to become socialist and would have most likely supported Germany. And he would have cheered on the elimination of the Russian people to expand the German state. Contradictions are just part of being a socialist. Why on earth would Black Lives Matter call itself a Marxist Leninist group, when both Marx and Lenin wanted their race removed from the planet? It is hard to believe now, but Marx at one point stated that socialism was to use the tools of science. If the programs didn’t work, they would be quickly changed. But as we in the U.S. have learned, the first job of a bureaucrat is to keep their job and get raises. Put another way, if a city kills its rat population, what happens to the people who work in that agency? Does that mean no real art came out of the Soviet Union? No. The real art I believe can be found in the silent movie posters which glorify no dictators or have more happening in them than people scowling or some dictator pointing the way to some make believe future. As you may have guessed, no U.S. government arts funding was given in 2017 to any propaganda mills masquerading as "art centers" to show the above movie poster art. It is important to remember that socialists believe all art should be political. Any art that for example, proclaims beauty, is heterosexist and a capitalist model. Thus movie poster art can’t be real art, but art can be found in old Soviet propaganda and Red China art. And what used to be called editorial art. Andres Serrano “Piss Christ” In the book: ORWELL YOUR ORWELL, A VIEW FROM THE SLAB (available at Amazon Books) we have what is lacking in American academia. Europe studies the different branches of socialism, in the U.S. we tend to not do that. We lump them all together and the Communist Party USA always comes out on top. (1) That Orwell believed 1984 was about what would happen to the progressive movement is lost on Universities and even high schools. A European can tell you the difference between Trotsky and Stalin, an American can’t. I ran across this quote that revealed to me that Stalin and Lenin are now in our bureaucrats’ heads: Miguel Cardona, Joe Biden’s secretary of education, gave a talk to explain “education department priorities.” Talking up a kinder, friendlier department, he said, “I think it was President Reagan [who] said, ‘We’re from the government and we’re here to help.’” I think that was intended to be reassuring. What Reagan actually said, however, as was pointed out about 10,000 times, was the opposite. “The nine most terrifying words in the English language,” the Gipper said, “are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” Lenin would have known exactly what Reagan meant — that’s what he liked about government. The looming Lenin comeback The Communist methods to achieve socialism are returning. That should alarm us all. Be seeing you. Upgrade to paid (1) To those who think they know what George Orwell is all about, this book unpacks surprise after surprise. Orwell Your Orwell reveals an Orwell very different from the one most people think of. It gives an unexpected yet convincing picture of Orwell’s beliefs, every key point precisely documented.             Orwell adopted a habitual rhetoric in which he portrayed himself as a lone, embattled dissident. But objectively examined, his opinions broadly corresponded with those of conventional leftwing thinking. Far from being skeptical of prevailing orthodoxies, Orwell emerges as a True Believer in the orthodoxies of the 1930s Left, though a believer who sharply drew attention to some of the serious problems with these ideologies. In his short life, Orwell underwent several dramatic conversions – such as his overnight switch in August 1939 from being fiercely anti-war to enthusiastically pro-war – while cleaving to some fixed positions – such as his opposition to the British Empire, totalitarianism, and birth control. Dr. Steele identifies both the conversions and the continuities, as well as some aspects of his thought which gradually evolved.             As well as recovering Orwell’s actual beliefs from the many accumulated misrepresentations, Dr. Steele also criticizes some of these beliefs, exposing the fallacies in Orwell’s thinking on such issues as the economics of imperialism, the dangers of hedonism, the significance of the Spanish Civil War, and the efficacy of mind control. Reviews: “This is an absolutely dazzling book on Orwell, casting a brilliant new light, not just on Orwell himself, but on the entire intellectual history of our time. It is a ‘must read’, not just for devotees of Orwell, but for anyone concerned with discussions of socialism and capitalism, totalitarianism and democracy, ideological passion and intellectual honesty. It will prove a superb teaching aid at both undergraduate and graduate levels.”—Yuri Maltsev, co-author of The Tea Party Explained and editor of Requiem for Marx “There has always been some mystery about how Orwell could give us the nightmare world of Ingsoc (English Socialism) while himself remaining an unrepentant English Socialist. This and other puzzles about Orwell are convincingly solved in Dr. Steele’s masterly account. If you want to know what made Orwell tick, you just have to read this eloquent, provocative, and hugely entertaining book.”—Barry Smith, Director of the National Center for Ontological Research and author of Austrian Philosophy You're currently a free subscriber to Hidden Cold War History. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. 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