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Frazetta: Painting with Fire (2003)
Godfather of Conan
I remember when I was a kid I thought that Frazetta's painting were some part of folklore-they were everywhere, and most important, they didn't seem man-made! Only later I discovered that Death Dealer and Conan are not national heroes (unfortunately) but masterpieces made by Frank Frazetta. The film is perfect blend of Frazetta's both sides of career - epic and warm. It consists of comments (better say "honest glorifications") of Frazetta's work by his colleagues, comic illustrators, with slideshows of his most famous works and his artistic biography, and simultaneously tells story about normal guy, devoted to his family, friends and passions, in such a worm way that it could easily put this film in "drama" section. It's really nice to see that such genius is not some cranky old warlock living in highest tower where he paints with virgins' blood and cat's tail, but regular funny guy, which makes him even greater.
Angeli bianchi... angeli neri (1969)
lots of things were occult in 1970...
This is very funny stuff. It's not actually documentary, most of it is directed, but it has tendency to be seen as "real documentary". It's loaded with funny stuff-quotes like "Dionis, god of ecstatic intoxication", rite in Finland with "severed pig head painted in black (wtf?!?!), satanists in black mass that are afraid to show their vagina (shy satanists?!?!?), but funniest of all is part with voodoo rites, where narrator first mentions St. Hypnosis (?), and then there's some creepy footage of ritual with young girl sitting while some "priest" decapitates chickens and goat on her head. That's not directed (I hope), but the funniest thing is when narrator says that "they put feathers of dead birds on girl's head as the symbol that she may fly above unhappiness and poverty like these birds!" Hahaha, yeah right, they flew really high. There is also LaVey, who is funniest of all. But the creepiest thing is psychedelic flower music that's in background all the time, and no matter how ridiculous movie is, it was scary for me to look at some freaky voodoo cemetery ritual with psychedelic groove in the background. Seariously, it's obvious that this movie was supposed to have educational tone, witch maybe it had in 1970., but today it looks like poor Christian mockumentary on everything "blasphemous". This isn't movie that'll teach you anything about occult and supernatural; this is the movie you should watch with your friends and have really good laugh.
P.S. Last part of the movie is about cryogenics. Guess that was occult in the 1970's.