Tag: Magical Mystery Tour

Thru the AKOM Lens: Magical Mystery Tour

CONTENTS

• Influences and Context 2:23
• Critical Reception. Does MMT warrant Re-evaluation? 18:50
• Stanley Kubrick – echoes of MMT 44:30
• Weekend – a slice of 1967 art cinema 1:09:21
• Discussion of Magical Mystery Tour 1:25:26

  TW: brief mention of a (fictional) sexual assault on a minor in the Kubrick section

SOURCES

Juli Kearn’s analysis of A Clockwork Orange:

http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/co_three.htm#magical

Rob Ager’s analysis of the Bear in the Shining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW2GrG7Zk0U

FILMOGRAPHY (movies referenced in the podcast)

1. Magical Mystery Tour (1967) The Beatles
2. Strawberry Fields Forever (1967) Peter Goldmann
3. The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman
4. One Plus One (1969) Jean-Luc Godard
5. The Trial (1960) Orson Welles
6. 8 ½ (1060) Federico Fellini
7. Scorpio Rising (1960) Kenneth Anger
8. Empire (1966) Andy Warhol
9. Running, Jumping Standing Still (1959) Dick Lester
10. Weekend (1967) Jean-Luc Godard
11. Daisies (1966) Věra Chytilová.
12. The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick
13. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick
14. 2001 (1969) Stanley Kubrick
15. Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick
16. Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick
17. The Astronomer’s Dream (1898) Georges Méliès
18. Breathless (1960) Jean-Luc Godard
19. Tom Jones (1963) Tony Richardson
20. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) Peter Greenaway
21. A Taste of Honey (1961) Tony Richardson

(Photos, L to R: A Clockwork Orange, Magical Mystery Tour, The Shining. Strawberry Fields Forever, Weekend, Daisies)

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