It's Django Nudo and Snot Peddler this week, as Smutty battles a non-Covid cold.
Exciting Cultpix events in Stockholm around this weekend. First there is the book launch today (27 August) in Stockholm of "Frigjorda Tider", the book that blows the lid on sex and pornogrpahy in Sweden during the 1960s and 1970s. Yes, Sweden had a 'sexy' reputation, but in some way it went much further than anyone suspected. This book uncovers those sins.
Then on Monday 30 August we kick off the inaugural double bill screening at Bio Aspen, with "Christina - Swedish Nymph" (1972) and "The Lustful Vicar" (1970), both of them beautifully restored by the Swedish Film Institute and shown for the first time in this way on the big screen. But if you don't live in Stockholm, fear not, we will be bringing these films to cinemas in other cities and other countries too.
We review the crop of new films, including slasher-with-cool-score "Fatal Games" (1984), Texan time travel indie "The Yesterday Machine" (1965), Ida Lupino's noir masterpiece "The Hitch-Hiker " (1953), and the strange Lynchian-Tetsuo Swedish horror short "Spik-bebis" (1987).
The big topic this week is secret agent comedy TV show "Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp" (1971). It is James Bond/Man from U.N.C.L.E./Get Smart/Mission Impossible crossed with The Monkees, with all parts played by chimps and dubbed by humans. We discussed how this amazing piece of television history ever got made, who composed the music how it could come back today and play lots of clips from the great soundtrack with the Evolution Revolution band and the secret agent playlist.
Suaver than Daniel Craig, funnier than Roger Moore, hairier than Sean Connery, you will not want to miss the adventures of Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.