Camp film library - ideas?
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gsv
liminally queer
Nope. Didn't strike me as camp or that over the top. Compared to my family they came across as relatively sane.
- The brother, inspired by Nietzsche, who won't speak until he makes the airforce (never mind that he'd have interviews to get through)
- The gay uncle who thinks he's the foremost academic of whoever-the-fuck poet
- The father taking a moped to chase down a publisher
- Oh - and the little girl who innocently does a stripper routine in a kiddie beauty pageant - inspired by granddad no less - and ends up dancing round the stage with her fucked-up family
GS(v)
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Pillow Talk
Lover Come Back
(basically the same film)
Lover Come Back
(basically the same film)
brixtonvilla
should be Oslovilla, really
Mad Max. Screamingly camp.
dynamicbaddog
run for your life
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - it had The Bee Gees, Frankie Howard and Alice Cooper in it, you can't get no camper than that
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Ah, we disagreed on this one. I'm probably wrong. I've decided to hold a Camp Film festival in my living room later this year
ooh - can i come?
I might have missed some of these if they've already been mentioned:
Calamity Jane
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Drop Dead Gorgeous (a camp commentry on camp)
Pretty Woman
Miracle on 34th Street (Attenborough version)
A Streetcar named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Towering Inferno
The Posideon adventure
my own definitions of 'camp' are plural, i've discovered.
I don't think there is anything camp about Queen Christina.
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
Eating Raoul
mango5
Endeavour era
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Manos! The Hands of Fate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Manos"_The_Hands_of_Fate
Anything directed by Ed Wood.
Footloose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Manos"_The_Hands_of_Fate
Anything directed by Ed Wood.
Footloose
Friedrich Engels pretty much nailed the essence of camp, for me, when he said -- all facts and personages of great importance in history occur twice, the first time as a tragedy, the second time as farce.
So, Hitchock's Vertigo is not camp.
De Palma doing "Vertigo" is camp
Brini Maxwell doing "Vertigo" is camp
And in that sense, Eisenstein was probably aiming for camp with Ivan the Terrible. Greta Garbo pretending to be a man in Queen Christina is NOT camp.
So, Hitchock's Vertigo is not camp.
De Palma doing "Vertigo" is camp
Brini Maxwell doing "Vertigo" is camp
And in that sense, Eisenstein was probably aiming for camp with Ivan the Terrible. Greta Garbo pretending to be a man in Queen Christina is NOT camp.
fredfelt
Mostly unknown member
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263957/
Satree Lek. (Iron Ladies)
The story of a Camp Volley ball team team who train to win the title. Funny but predictable.
Satree Lek. (Iron Ladies)
The story of a Camp Volley ball team team who train to win the title. Funny but predictable.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
ooh, yes!
G. Fieendish
Snark Hunter
Zardoz (For Sean Connery in a red Loincloth)....
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Have we had anything by Douglas Sirk yet?
If not, I nominate Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life. Melodrama par excellence.
If not, I nominate Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life. Melodrama par excellence.
G. Fieendish
Snark Hunter
Re: Last post
But then you have to write a 1000 word essay on the recurrent themes running through his films....
(Well, that's what I had to do, when we had to analyse his work when doing a Film Studies course, 8 years ago...).
But then you have to write a 1000 word essay on the recurrent themes running through his films....
(Well, that's what I had to do, when we had to analyse his work when doing a Film Studies course, 8 years ago...).
