BDSLILLUTM Reviews

[Toby Levy]

It looks like Been Down So Long is not on video. Perhaps for good reason.  It
looks like it was the director's only movie. And the producer only produced
this and "Pom Pom Girls."  Wasn't that the movie Senator Gramm invested in?

Here are two brief reviews of the movie I found on the web:

first from the TV Guide Movie Database:


BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME
  Our rating: 1 out of 5

Various vignettes that view society through the eyes of the
so-called Beat Generation. A truckload of cliches, hip jargon,
and nothing much to recommend this film.


and from the All Movie Guide:


Been Down So Long It Looks Like up to Me

AMG PLOT SYNOPSIS: Richard Farina's late-1960s "alienation" novel Been
Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me was given a belated, and somewhat
anachronistic, screen treatment in 1977. Though set in 1958, the
original novel spoke most loudly to the post-Beat Generation hippies of
the next decade. The film spoke to no one, except perhaps a few ageing
hipsters who couldn't shake off the past. Barry Primus plays the central
character, a sixties activist in the making on an uptight college
campus. Amidst the jive-talk and the scrungy clothing, the film contains
a few obligatory sex scenes, indicating perhaps that it was this element
of beatnik life that most attracted the filmmakers.



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