Comments on: Trying to bite my way out of it

Trying to bite my way out of it

Elmore — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:34:57 -0800

Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision 1978 BBC Omnibus documentary (Google Video)

By: dazed_one

dazed_one — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:57:54 -0800

Fascinating, thanks.

By: muckster

muckster — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:19:15 -0800

It's not opening for me right now but I think this is on the Criterion DVD of Fear and Loathing, too.

By: moss

moss — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:39:25 -0800

I think my favorite part is around 32 minutes in, when John Dean shows up and chats with him for a bit.

By: chococat

chococat — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:25:11 -0800

Thank you for this. I'll have to watch the whole thing later on when I have an hour, but this rocks and is timely as I'm re-reading the Hell's Angels book right now...I was just thinking this morning how relevent and un-dated his writing style is in that book, written in 1966.

By: Matt Oneiros

Matt Oneiros — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:41:07 -0800

Ya, this is on the criterion DVD. It's really hard to find though (or I am dvd-menu stupid) as I watched it once off my DVD and have not been able to figure out what disc/what menu items since. Excellent documentary.

By: sindark

sindark — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:44:04 -0800

This documentary is pretty sad. It seems to suggest that Thompson never got out from under his most famous work. That, plus the reasons behind his loathing for Nixon (combined the the present administration) may do a lot to explain his untimely end.

By: gummi

gummi — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:09:18 -0800

Cool stuff. I was just showing my boyfriend the wine label for Heart of Darkness done by Steadman.

By: 1f2frfbf

1f2frfbf — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:54:20 -0800

Definitely worth a watch. John Dean and Bill Murray make great cameos. But my favorite part is when the BBC crew is showing him how to shoot film and he holds the Bolex like it's a .45, if that doesn't explain his approach to storytelling, I don't know what does.

By: Drexen

Drexen — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:15:32 -0800

Great watching - thanks for posting this.

By: hatchetjack

hatchetjack — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:05:35 -0800

Somewhere in there we get to watch him do a bump while trying to hide it behind the slate. Reading this life is much less difficult than watching it.