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FRIED BANANAS presents: FRITZ, THE CAT (1972)
Fried Bananas is a cinema club. We show fried films in Liverpool. No pretension. Just proper juicy cinema and a good pint.
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Our first series is Mellow Yellow — three films from the golden age of psychedelic animation, when studios were making adult cartoons that were strange, explicit, politically raw and visually unlike anything before or since.
Last Wednesday of the month, June through August 2026.
5 — book to guarantee your spot, or pay on the door, same price.
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film: FRITZ THE CAT (Ralph Bakshi · 1972 · 78 min)
The first animated film in history to receive an X certificate.
Fritz is a cat, a student in late 1960s New York. He wants to be radical, get high, sleep around and find meaning — in roughly that order. Ralph Bakshi’s adaptation of Robert Crumb’s underground comics is filthy, funny, politically savage and completely unhinged. It was banned in some places. Crumb hated it so much he killed Fritz off in a comic strip the same year it came out.
It still holds up. In fact it might hold up too well.
Content note: strong language, nudity, drug use, violence, racial caricature.
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Our first series is Mellow Yellow — three films from the golden age of psychedelic animation, when studios were making adult cartoons that were strange, explicit, politically raw and visually unlike anything before or since.
Last Wednesday of the month, June through August 2026.
5 — book to guarantee your spot, or pay on the door, same price.
.
film: FRITZ THE CAT (Ralph Bakshi · 1972 · 78 min)
The first animated film in history to receive an X certificate.
Fritz is a cat, a student in late 1960s New York. He wants to be radical, get high, sleep around and find meaning — in roughly that order. Ralph Bakshi’s adaptation of Robert Crumb’s underground comics is filthy, funny, politically savage and completely unhinged. It was banned in some places. Crumb hated it so much he killed Fritz off in a comic strip the same year it came out.
It still holds up. In fact it might hold up too well.
Content note: strong language, nudity, drug use, violence, racial caricature.
Wednesday 26 August
The Ship & Mitre, 133 Dale St, Liverpool, Merseyside L2 2JH
Price from: £5.00. Start time: 19:00
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