[lbo-talk] WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Mon Oct 6 07:56:40 PDT 2003


Liza Featherstone wrote:


>Agree, this is a really really great film. Soundtrack by Tuli Kupferberg,
>too!
>
>Liza
>
>>WR - MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM (WR - MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA) (Dusan Makavejev,
>>Yugoslavia, 1971) (F) Hilarious, highly erotic political comedy from
>>Yugoslavia advances sex as an ideological imperative for liberation; an
>>outrageous, exuberant work of a new breed of interna-tional revolutionists,
>>spawned by anarchist-communist ideas, anti-Stalinism, Consciousness III in
>>America, and Wilhelm Reich's sexual and political radicalism. The total
>>portrayal of sex is a "first" for the East. SC
>>
What's really amazing is that John Simon liked it, too. (I think his review's in his collection _Something to Declare_.)



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