Dušan Makavejev's Sweet Movie
http://www.criterion.com/films/552-sweet-movieI highly recommend this utterly gratuitous film by Makavejev. I've never seen another film so loaded with perversity and sexuality. A beauty pageant hymen inspection, a female pedophile, a commune singing Ode to Joy to their excrement, and a naked woman bathing in chocolate for tv cameras are among the highlights. There are endless topics for discussion here. They have a copy of this in the Norlin DVD collection as well as at Video Station if you're interested.
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Vilgot Sjöman's I Am Curious–Yellow
Less carnivalesque and more cinema verité than Sweet Movie, I Am Curious is concerned with the same themes of sex and socialism, but is a totally different movie and experience. 1/3 documentary, 1/3 intimate character study, and 1/3 rumination on film, this movie is even more hyperreal than it seems at first. It takes a lot of patience to watch all the way through, but I think its worth it. Norlin and Video Station have this one as well.
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