The Telephone Book (Blu-ray)

A major, though forgotten, work from New York's underground film scene of the late 60s and early 70s, Nelson Lyon's the Telephone Book tells the story of a sex-obsessed hippie who falls in love with the world's greatest obscene phone caller and embarks on a quest to find him. Her journey introduces to her to an avant-garde stag filmmaker, a manipulative psychiatrist, a bored lesbian housewife, and more. Photographed in high-contrast black-and-white, and punctuated with a remarkable, surreal animated sequence, the Telephone Book is one of the greatest cult films you've probably never heard of.

Starring: James Harder, Ultra Violet, Roger C. Carmel, Jan Farrand, David Dozer, Lucy Lee Flippin, Dolph Sweet, Joan Ziehl, Margaret Brewster, Sarah Kennedy, Norman Rose, Jill Clayburgh, Barry Morse, Geri Miller, William Hickey, Matthew Tobin, Arthur Haggerty, Ondine

Director: Merv Bloch

Rating: NR