John Boorman directs Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling and Sara Kestelman in this sci-fi fantasy where a brutal warrior hides in a flying stone head to discover how the secret society who control his people live.

Another folly. This one from before my time. Infamous for Big Tam strutting around the Irish countryside in a bandolier, a leather nappy, come-fuck-me boots and nothing else. The first 15 minutes of God heads flying about future Wicklow are actually pretty awesome but it descends into trippy, satirical conversations rather than dystopian action. Pretentions take over and it can often be incomprehensible yet never visually daring enough to justify the confusion. I have just glanced at my blog for Boorman’s later Excalibur and I could simply copy the text, change the actors’ names and just paste it onto here. They are very similar experiences tonally. This has lashings more nudity but it is that early Seventies dirty bath water nudity. Skinny, pale, goosebumps in the mud. Interesting and boring but rarely particularly good.

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Perfect Double Bill: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

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