Peter Whitehead — Director (7)

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Jeanetta Cochrane (1967)
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More consciously experimental than Whitehead's other works, this film draws on a variety of sources, including sequences of London shot while Whitehead was at the Slade School of Art, glimpses of the singer and model Nico, and footage of the psychedelic underground nightclub UFO. There is also on-screen text, a voice critiquing it, and music from Pink Floyd, at this point still fronted by Syd Barrett--Whitehead's old painting friend from Cambridge. The track here, "Interstellar Overdrive", was recorded by Whitehead before the band signed to EMI and is much more exciting and beat-driven than the version they would later record for the label. There is no explicit link between the content of the film and the Cochrane Theatre, which is is named after, but the theatre was used as a venue for the Spontaneous Festival of Underground Films in 1966.

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Wholly Communion (2007)
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这部类记录片是1965年6月11日在皇家爱尔伯特音乐厅拍摄的现场.记录了这个世纪最杰出也是最尊贵的诗人的聚会.出席的有Allen Ginsberg(金斯伯格 生于1926年,是“垮掉一代”的主要诗人),Lawrence Ferlinghetti( 劳伦斯.费林赫迪生于1919年,是一位“垮掉一代”的诗人,有《心灵的科尼岛>),Gregory Corso(格雷戈里·科尔索),Harry Fainlight,与Michael Horovitz等.

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The Fall (1969)
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彼得·怀特海德 actor: 保罗·奥斯特 / H. Rap Brown …
other title: 亚美利坚之秋
当我人全部有罪后民主自然到来片名向卡谬经典著作堕落致意本片是怀特海德最具政治性批判的代表作在片中以局外人之姿自英国来到美国从街头走访到电视新闻撷录充满实验感且看似零碎历史片段的无形式设计流泻出他镜头下世局动荡的知觉如反战思潮及人权运动等并穿插他个人主义强烈的自传式独白

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Daddy (1973)
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other title: 爹地
"What began as a documentary on sculptress Niki de St. Phalle finished up as a fantasy about a woman's attempts to exorcise the influence of her sexually domineering father. It provides an excuse for a whole ragbag of Freudian neuroses, six-foot phalluses in coffins, nubile girls in nun's habits stripping in front of altars, masturbation, some obvious jokes, pretty photography, abysmal acting, and a commentary that reads and sounds like a Home Service children's story for adults" (Chris Petit, Time Out) "A psycho-therapeutic collaboration with sculptress Niki de St. Phalle and the closest Whitehead ever got to making a fictional movie. Daddy is a garish, uninhibitedly relentless assault on the Law of the Father, in which a daughter (de St. Phalle), returning to the French chateau of her childhood, re-lives and re-imagines a series of erotic taboos and transgressions visited on the hapless daddy (Rainer von Dietz) featuring herself, her mother and a pubescent convent girl (Mia Martin) ... Deliberately vulgar and tasteless, with a level of non-acting that achieves a certain kind of awful brilliance. Watch out for a few glimpses of Whitehead uncredited as Daddy's falconer" (Entropy)

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Tonite Let's All Make Love In London (1967)
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Peter Whitehead actor: Alan Aldridge / Vashti Bunyan …
other title: 今晚我们在伦敦做爱
Peter Whitehead's disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled "A Pop Concerto," comprises a number of different "movements," each depicting a different theme underscored by music: A early version of Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" plays behind some arty nightclub scenes, while Chris Farlowe's rendition of the Rolling Stones' "Out of Time" accompanies a young woman's description of London nightlife and the vacuousness of her own existence. In another segment, the Marquess of Kensington (Robert Wace) croons the nostalgic "Changing of the Guard" to shots of Buckingham Palace's changing of the guard, and recording act Vashti are seen at work in the studio. Sandwiched between are clips of Mick Jagger (discussing revolution), Andrew Loog Oldham (discussing his future) - and Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Lee Marvin, and novelist Edna O'Brien (each discussing sex). The best part is footage of the riot that interrupted the Stones' 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert

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Pink Floyd London '66-'67 (1967)
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other title: Pink Floyd London '66–'67 / London '66-'67 …
Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead,this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60's Pink Floyd line-up at Sound Techniques London & material from the legendary '14 hour Technicolor Dream' extravaganza in April '67 at Alexandra Palace. The footage includes performance art by Yoko Ono and a Sgt. Pepper era John Lennon taking in the festivities(John and Yoko had not met then)