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Soc.
Sci. 127 Danny Lyon Soc. Sci. 127, 1969, Houston, color and b&w, 21 minutes a comedy -- Danny Lyon's first film with the late great Bill Sanders and his "painless" tattoo shop. "The film
is bumpy, ragged around the edges, but with a tremendous vitality
and sense of verite, even though you know the tattoo artist is
conscious of being filmed; it is a fantastic demonstration of
the surrealism inherent in the reality it portrays." "Mr. Lyon's
fondness for bizarre images is balanced by a kind of solemn respect
for his subjects. This is particularly true in "Soc. Sci. 127",
about an eccentric, hard-drinking tattoo artist named Bill Sanders
who, while he works, rambles on about Vietnam, lesbians, and the
art of what he advertises as 'velvety tattoos'." |