sixties

Thanks to my web master Jim, I am back up and running. Hopefully, the site won’t crash anytime soon. Also we will have two of my TCM Spring Break Film Festival intros on the site as well. Stay tuned.

Catching up, check out the following:

Carol Lynley returning live to the Castro Theater in San Francisco for another special screening of The Poseidon Adventure, as well as a salute to her long movie career:

http://www.ticketfly.com/event/139373/

Closer to home in NYC, my friend David Savage has put together a film festival of 3 cult movies by director Jeff Lieberman at the Anthology Film Archives. Read his great article about the director below:

http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/6929-Cinema-Retro-Pays-Tribute-to-Cult-Director-Jeff-Lieberman-at-Anthology-Film-Archives,-Aug.-17-19,-2012.html

A friend recently brought to my attention a promo for the cheesy TV-movie Friendship, Secrets and Lies (1978). It was the story of six sorority sisters who have a reunion only to have it spoiled by a nosy reporter who suspects one of them of killing her baby after secretly giving birth while in college.

This film would have been one of my all-time faves if not for the casting of Loretta Swit and Cathryn Damon as two of the suspects who kinda ruin it for me. The other four are faves of mine and true 60s starlets–Tina Louise, Shelley Fabares, Paula Prentiss and Stella Stevens. They should have been joined by Carol Lynley and Anjanette Comer making it a dream cast for me. On the bright side, 4 out of 6 ain’t bad. Now available on DVD through through Warner Bros. Archive.

httpv://youtu.be/e8T8jH51xhY

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Those were the words spoken by Zalman King’s haunted and hunted character Jerry Zipkin in the enigmatic 1978 cult shocker Blue Sunshine, directed by Jeff Lieberman and co-starring Deborah Winters and Mark Goddard from TV’s Lost in Space. Ten years after taking Blue Sunshine, some former hippies lose their hair and go on an bad acid-induced murdering-spree.

httpv://youtu.be/bC23RzhrH5Q

3 X Jeff Lieberman, is a special retrospective Cinema Retro contributor David Savage organized and will be co-hosting. Slated for the 3rd weekend of August the 17-19, at the Anthology Film Archives. Click here for more information.

Blue Sunshine (1978), Squirm (1976), and Just Before Dawn (1981) will be screening in original 35mm, the first time in NYC since their theatrical releases. The famously reclusive director will be in attendance!

httpv://youtu.be/R6HpKUW7tKI

httpv://youtu.be/w1_UE5lhdEs

Great fun assured for anyone up for a hot, sweaty, drive-in, Psychotronic weekend of acid freaks, Sinatra puppets, maniac hillbillies and killer worms!