The film called "I Am Curious Yellow" (1967)

I can't be the only one here who's seen this film. I've read about it before but only just watched it now because a friend of mine recently went crazy about the Fall song "Curious Orange" which made me think of it. Well, I found it boring at times, and wanted to quit it about twice, but just when I was ready to turn it off and do something else, it suddenly got interesting again. Now I've just solved a riddle about one of the last scenes and in the end, I'm pretty damn impressed with this film. Talk about combining sex with social commentary! Wow. No wonder it was banned. No wonder they went to court. No wonder it opened doors for more pornographic films in the US, even though it's only partially a pornographic film!

I don't know how to talk about it without spoiling it for folks, but probably the coolest parts of it to me were the Martin Luther King bits (never seen him look so real on film! you could pretty much reach out and touch him!) and the DDT scene (which I wasn't sure I understood until I checked wikipedia).

So no, not the best film I've ever seen, but a damn sight better than so many arty farty European films I've seen that seem to have as their only goal to make you go "wtf".

Here's the wikipedia link about the film.

You're weird.

Have you seen "Curious Blue"? I went on a streak of late 60s films last year and, while some apples were good, I remember a few being the antithesis of entertaining. This struck me as being one of those unwatchable art movies from the period. But you make me think I'm wrong.

It's nothing more than Swedish people eating pudding or whatever they had in the sixties. I fell asleep.

I watched Yellow and Blue a couple years ago. Mostly remember MLK, Swedish anarcho-folk songs, and fucking in the trees.

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"Fer chrissakes! We're all goddamn Ernest Borgnines!"

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:19 PM

I thought it was a film about water sports.

In the 80s, it was sometimes on at repertory cinemas with WR Mysteries of the Organism (which I sat through very bored).

WR Mysteries of the Organism

i always misread the WR title that way -- would've been appropriate w/curious yellow

I Am Curious Yellow was quite the cause celebre in the late 60s. IIRC our local moral guardian in Cincinnati -- Charlie Keating -- said he saw it 6 times to determine exactly how pornographic it was...

Foreign "art" films like "I am Curious Yellow" began to appeal to a taste for "hard-core" material. Although most states banned the production or sale of "obscene" material, the growing acceptance of sexually explicit material suggested to Charles Rembar, an attorney who had fought some of the most important First Amendment cases, that "the end of obscenity" was in sight. Some believed that the 1970 report of the President’s Commission on Obscenity and Pornography would be the final nail in the coffin of the anti-pornography movement. The President’s Commission had been appointed by Lyndon Johnson in 1968 to determine whether sexually explicit material is harmful. In carrying out its task, the commission spent two years and $2 million. Because there was little basic research on the question, the commission paid for experiments. It concluded that there is no evidence that sexually explicit material causes violence against women and called for the repeal of laws that criminalized the purchase of this material by adults.

The President’s Commission report was bitterly attacked by the country’s leading anti-pornography groups. Two leaders of this movement, Charles Keating, a Cincinnati attorney who had founded the Citizens for Decent Literature, and Father Morton Hill, the founder of Morality in Media, a Catholic anti-pornography group, were members of the President’s Commission. Keating, who had once assailed bermuda shorts on women as a threat to morality, assailed the report as a "charter for pornographers." (Keating would later be sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud in connection with the failure of the Lincoln Savings Bank.)

You're weird.

― admrl, Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:41 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

life is weird.

Curious, even.

RIP star Lena Nyman.

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2856

symbols of the sexual revolution RIP

geez yeah, simultaneity w/ Maria Schneider is creepy (tho I prefer IACT to LTiP)

oh word that's where the fall title comes from huh?

IACY that is. IACB is a little fatiguing.

I Am Curious Tangerine

this is the yellow version this is the yellow version

i didn't really get this film when i saw it, but it was exciting @ the same time. i liked the vox pops. haven't seen it since.

rip