Cursed ’60s Flick
Screen International reported last Friday that Beeban Kidron, director of the endlessly-delayed, obviously problematic Hippie Hippie Shake, has left the film over disagreements with Working Title, the film’s producer. The film’s screenwriter Lee Hall, Kidron’s husband, bolted sometime earlier.
The counter-culture drama about Oz editor Richard Neville (Cillian Murphy) and his girlfriend Louise Ferrier (Sienna Miller) began shooting nearly two years ago, in September 2007.
The Screen Int’l story said that Working Title “has scotched rumors that Hippie Hippie Shake is to go straight to DVD, saying that it is scheduled to be released next February on over 100 prints.”
The rep of this poor misbegotten film has gone from intriguing to worrisome to there-must-be-something-wrong to massive fartbomb. I’ve been wanting to see it all along because of alleged “sexual content, strong dialogue, graphic nudity and drug use throughout.”
100 prints, February release = straight to video
is there really a difference?
Beeban Kidron is responsible for the Bridget Jones sequel, which was one of the worst films I have paid to see in a cinema in the past 10 years.
Beeban Kidron is responsible for the Bridget Jones sequel, which was one of the worst films I have paid to see in a cinema in the past 10 years.
Yeah, I went to see that too with a group of girls who all loved the first one, and even they thought it was shit. It was slapstick shite. Really poor.
I’ve been wanting to see it all along because of alleged “sexual content, strong dialogue, graphic nudity and drug use throughout.”
ahhh, well, I wanna see the movie because I’m interested in 1960s hippie culture…
I thought punks hated hippies?
Poseur.
I heard it’s delayed because there’s not enough “the ’60s were an important time” montages and boomer test audiences didn’t feel it conveyed how much better they were than today’s youth well enough.
Groovy.
FWIW, while hardly anyone in America knows of Oz magazine, awareness may be slightly increased with the release of the Ozploitation docco NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, since it discusses how Oz magazine played a part in the sexual liberation climate that led to the long output of gleefully sex-and-violence-ridden films that came out of Australia afterwards.
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