Paradise Now: The Living Theatre in Amerika DVD trailer

[HH9508]

Liberal nonsense and deviancy. Lets roll around naked, babble, stink, talk to trees, get high, have open sexual sickness and call it art and think that communism is groovy.

[arthurmagazine]

@HH9508 Great comment! We'll put that on the next printing.

[matthewdavidwatkins]

@HH9508 god that sounds great

[jeghetertrine]

haha sjæææl

[joakimgunby01]

Noen andre som har kommet opp i TIP som har lyst til å kommentere dette?

[crosby12049]

oh it's so amazing

[chichikov8]

What was the purpose of all this?  What was supposed to be accomplished in the way of revolution?

[smith930]

a living document. forget woodstock, forget hair; this was the real thing. a failure, in the end, in bringing about the revolution, but a colossal failure at that.

[elbeethoven]

fuckin genious

[pequoda]

Favoloso !

[zechariah2121]

this is fucking stupid!

[smlvk43]

I actually hung out with the Living Theater troupe in NYC in the '60's, and remember a performance where we were all going to go out into the street..some naked...and the cops came and tried to stop, and arrest usI think we scared the cops..cuz they went awaytheater doors were locked..and we just continued !!! a riot !!..we were having a great time (now, the cops , on the other hand..they just had to leave..Julian Beck and Judith Melina, did eventually get busted on some false tax charge...

[mobyboy]

wow ! I guess these things are no linger exist. wished I lived back then to view all that

[BuridansEsel1]

@smlvk43 So you should know maybe a german women in this group. She saw the group in Berlin (me too) and she left the actor school to work with this group. I forgot just now her name, but she is the women with the long black hair and strong expression in the beginning of this docu. I would like to know where she is now and what she did later.

[BuridansEsel1]

@smlvk43 Now I remember the name: Petra Vogt , always black dressed

[9540525]

After this Living Theatre:Paradise Now Jim Morrison ''exposed'' himself in Miami on the next day. :)

[hauntedcabaret]

The kid's voice in the audio may be mine. I made my stage debut with TLT as a toddler. Apparently, I crawled onto the stage & arranged shoes as people shed their clothes. Very improvisational theatre of which I have no memory. (My dad's a playwright & directed Theatre Genesis.) This type of theatre could never happen now b/c the audience is not the same. When people say Children of the 60's made no contribution to society but free love & STDs, I ask them if they shop at Whole Foods.

[alexisonguns]

i just have readed a book... about jim morriosn an d its said that jim...saw this...in 1969 more or less...

[charliedominici]

@alexisonguns If you watch the Doors documentary you see a brief clip of Julian in the movie. I was also infected by the living theater and my life was never the same since. Diana Howard, where are you?

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[shabaash]

If anyone did Living Theater type stuff now, they would be thrown into the psychiatric gulag. Boy are those performances tightly connected to a time long past. Nothing shocks now--beheadings, school massacres, genocide. Its all part of the daily fare.

[mahasiddhi]

Allan Graubard comments: "It's a very powerful statement. What a difference between then and now. Then a war provokes massive continuous contestation - politically, culturally, individually. Now a war provokes... what? The zomboid masses have returned in force. no bs in this film... just the gut wrenching reality of hysteria as a theatrical response to the war and the madness of that war and what it meant to us all then...

[ANARCHYdashTVdotCOM]

what the hell... lol... i really don't know about involving drugs in a revolutuion... rather a bad undermining idea... ditto for naked art... but really, i can look past both those, its the screaming that's a bit too much... oh well it was the sixties they were trying

[sandinista5]

Astonishing, thanks.

[sbathrick]

I am not allowed to take my clothes off.

[friendlier]

"Why don't you do this in the streets? Why sell seats?"

I would just add, why doesn't this generation come up with its own theater for the streets? Arthur's obsession with the past is getting creepy.

[bigkittywilliams]

I think it reminds us that we can come up with our own theater, etc.

And it shows us who grew up in the 80s and 90s a side of the 60s we never knew. We've grown up with a Forrest Gump vision of the 60s, and this is all really inspiring.