Indy Film Buffs Meetup Group

200 Motels is a 1971 surrealist musical film written and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, and featuring music by Zappa. An international co-production of United States and the United Kingdom, the film stars the Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and Ringo Starr. The film attempts to portray the craziness of life on the road as a rock musician, and as such consists of a series of unconnected nonsense vignettes interspersed with concert footage of the Mothers of Invention. Ostensibly, while on tour The Mothers of Invention go crazy in the small fictional town of Centerville ("a real nice place to raise your kids up"), wander around, and get beaten up in "Redneck Eats", a cowboy bar. In an animated interlude passed off as a "dental hygiene movie", bassist "Jeff", tired of playing what he refers to as "Zappa's comedy music", is persuaded by his bad conscience to quit the group, as did his real-life counterpart Jeff Simmons. Simmons was replaced by Martin Lickert (who was Starr's chauffeur) for the film. Almost every scene is drenched with video special effects (double and triple exposures, solarization, false color, speed changes, etc.) which were innovative in 1971. The film has been dubbed a "surrealistic documentary". Here's the trailer:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066732/
Feel free to bring a drink or a snack to share. We'll order some pizzas before the film. Please bring $5.00 if you'd like pizza to help with the cost. Hope to see you there!

Let's get together to talk movies with new and old friends in Broad Ripple Park.
For our first round of discussion, we will ask everybody to Talk About a Movie. Pick any movie that you have seen and start a discussion about it. What did you like, what did you not like? Join in the discussion of other members' movies.
For our second round of discussion, we will talk about American remakes. Do you have a favorite American movie that is a remake of a foreign film? Do you have any that you despise? Come share.
We will gather at the Picnic Knoll which is a group of picnic tables just to the right of the playground at the far end of the Broad Ripple Avenue parking lot. In the case of a light rain, we will move to a nearby shelter. Check for comments in case of inclement weather.
We look forward to talking movies with you.