Weird Wednesday - February 25, 2009

I LUV VIDEO Presents

Weird Wednesday:

The Girls on F Street

(Saul Resneck, 1966)

I Luv Video Presents

Weird Wednesday:

THE GIRLS ON F STREET

Rated R; 69min; Director:Saul Resnick (1966)

Location: Alamo Downtown

Completely bizarre episodic expose about the numerous forms of sexual deviance that fester behind closed doors in a typical all-American skid row neighborhood. Shockingly frank and experimental in tone and execution. The visual vocabulary of the film includes carefully composed expressionistic scenes as well as the more typical "new wave by necessity" look of most '60s sex films: hand held camera, overlighting, the use of a narrator to hold the story together (and minimize expensive synchronized sound). As much as I love black and white '60s sex films, most of them are just slack, lazy excuses for nudity. This film is (literally) insane but every frame is fascinating. When the parade of perversion is over you'll need a shower. Or a flogging. Or both. (Lars)