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Showing posts with label Max Julien. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Psych-Out (1968; Richard Rush)

American Bandstand guru Dick Clark did not dig flower power. When "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida" was a thing, he still was into Bobby Darin. During his short tenure as a film producer at American-International Pictures, he intended a film to show the decrepit existence of hippies for what it really was. Despite how much he may have succeeded in Psych-Out, this remains a key film for those who are nostalgic for the flower power era. Today, this film seems naive, but honestly so was much of the era, but it probably captures the “Summer Of Love” better than any other narrative film.