120 minute - 2005 digitally-enhanced Director's Cut. The underground cult classic documentary of the psychedelic 1960s. Closeups of stars, including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Ronald Reagan, Frank Zappa, Sean Connery, Brigit Bardot, Alfred Hitchcock, Bobby Beausoleil of the Manson Family, imprisoned for life for murder, and Jay Sebring - victim of the Mansons. Personal insights by surfers, skydivers, LSD gurus, hippies, peaceniks, protest-singers, rightwing politicians, eccentric multi-millionaires and transvestites. Denounced as bizarre prophecy by the critics. Invited to open the 1968 Avignon & Venice Film Festivals, but banned by the French Ministry of Information as a danger to mental health and an apology for certain perversities, including drugs and homosexuality. Characterised in CIA files as pro-Communist. Refused exhibition in Communist nations as glamourising Capitalism - too many cars and swimming pools. Described by UNESCO social scientist S. Friedman a
$2.99 |
Amazon Video on Demand
Length: 02:00:00 Posted: 1/24/2008
