Space is the Place
Anybody else seen this film? It was made in the 70s by a jazz pianist called Sun Ra, who though he was some sort of alien angel prophet from Saturn. This is him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SsBtfuSDxw
The film is a perfect mix of blaxploitation, sci-fi and space muzak. At the beginning of the film, he decides that he needs to transport black people off planet earth where they can prosper without whitey holding them down. But he's going to transport them through free jazz. And he's also having a battle with some sort of other alien God type chap, he blows up a nightclub in the 40s by playing crazy piano, and then plays cards in the desert, and then lands in the 70s and all sorts of shennanigans happen. He ends up getting kidnapped by some evil white guys from NASA, who tie him to a chair and force him to listen to marching music.But he's rescued by the urban youth, who make sure he arrives at his space concert just in time, and throw themselves infront of him when the NASA guys try to shoot him. Then he ressurrects them and sends them to his glasses shaped spaceship, and they fly off and the world explodes.

Best shit I've ever seen.
(Lajestic vantrashell of Lob, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 16:51, 1 reply)

Yes!
That film is a samplers paradise.. I actually watched enough of it to vaguely get what the guy was on about as well - That black people don't exist in America, they're like aliens.
( Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 1:20, closed)