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San Domingo
1970
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
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This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a hippie girl who is involved in shaking down the young man's parents for money. |
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The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard
2014
Director: Neil Norman
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Using vintage footage, rare photos, memorabilia and audio, plus fresh interviews with band members and associates as well as notable fans and observers, Pushin’ Too Hard relates the bizarre rags to riches to rags tale of the rock quartet who took Los Angeles by storm in the mid-60s. |
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Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove
2015
Director: Joe Nick Patoski
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Sir Doug & The Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove tells the story of Doug Sahm, the wild man musicians' musician and unsung hero of Texas music. A country music child prodigy and teenage rhythm & blues dynamo who caused a riot at his San Antonio high school, Sahm emerged as an international rock star leading the Sir Douglas Quintet. He landed in San Francisco just in time for the Summer of Love in 1967.
He returned to Texas as the cowboy hippie rocker who built a burgeoning music scene in Austin before forming the Tex-Mex super group The Texas Tornados. A kinetic, quirky character with a solid sense of place as well as an innate wanderlust, Doug Sahm's story is the story of Texas music. |
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Song of the South: Duane Allman and the Birth of the Allman Brothers Band
2013
Director: Tom O'Dell
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Duane Allman, the lead guitarist and driving force behind Southern Rock pioneers The Allman Brothers Band, lived a tragically short life, but during his brief career he changed music forever. With contributions from an illustrious and highly knowledgeable cast of friends, insiders and experts, plus rare footage and exclusive interviews, this film looks at Duane's life, work and musical output. |
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The Source Family
2012
Director: Maria Demopoulos, Jodi Wille
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A charismatic leader founds a commune in Los Angeles in the early '70s based on natural food, spiritual practices and psychedelic rock. This short-lived era is recreated with archival material and the memories of participants. |
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The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation
1999
Director: Chuck Workman
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In this documentary, director Chuck Workman examines the lasting cultural significance of the Beats, focusing mainly on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. Along the way, these freethinking men became friends and associates, and their writing influenced numerous generations of questioning individuals. Workman combines interviews, TV clips and archival footage in his film, in addition to dramatic readings by notable actors such as Johnny Depp |
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Space Is the Place
1974
Director: John Coney
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Sun Ra the space age prophet lands his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. |
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Still Smokin
1983
Direrctor: Tommy Chong
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Cheech and Chong fly to the marijuana capital of the world, Amsterdam, for a film festival where they take Dolly Parton and Burt Reynold's place in a limo, suite, press conference and performance. They throw in some sketches as well.
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Stoned
2005
Director: Stephen Woolley
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A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band. |
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The Stones in the Park
1969
Director: Leslie Woodhead
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Extensive footage of the Rolling Stones performing on July 5th 1969 in Hyde Park in front of an audience of appropriately 500,000 people just two days after the untimely death of former lead gutiarist and band founder Brian Jones. |
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Strange Fruit: The Beatles' Apple Records
2011
Producer: Rob Johnstone
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In 1968, under a haze of publicity, The Beatles opened their collective door to all manner of musicians, writers and artists. Strange Fruit: The Beatles' Apple Records is the story of a record label which came to exist under extraordinary circumstances, produced some extraordinary records and was operated under the most extraordinary guidelines. |
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The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD
2011
Director: Martin Witz
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Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943, creating a powerful molecule that will have an impact on the scientific world and recreational drug use. |
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Sunshine Daydream
2013
Director: John Norris
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Music documentary film, starring the rock band the Grateful Dead.
It was shot at their August 27, 1972 concert at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon.
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The Sunshine Makers
2015
Director: Cosmo Feilding-Mellen
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The story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter-culture. |
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Sunshine Superman: The Journey of Donovan
2008
Director: Hannes Rossacher
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The ultimate life story of the 60´s folk-pop phenomenon. The deluxe double-DVD set contains classic 60´s film and TV appearances, rare archive footage and never-before-seen material as well as 5 previously unreleased songs and all of the hits. |
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Suspiria
1977
Director: Dario Argento
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With its expressionistic production design and creepy soundtrack from Italian prog rock band Goblin, Argento’s cult classic is as trippy as it is eerie.
A young American ballet dancer, Suzy (Jessica Harper), moves to Germany to join a reknown ballet academy. However, upon arrival she realizes something at this school is awry: when she rings the front buzzer for entry, a mysterious woman doesn’t let her in, and that night two women are brutally murdered. After a weird encounter with one of the academy’s servants, Suzy faints. Things only get weirder during the course of the film with a variety of strange occurances and more mysterious deaths.
The film’s striking colors (especially the vivid reds), Art Nouveau-inspired architecture, and chilling musical score create a stylish and frightful hallucination. |
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Syd Barrett's First Trip
1966
Director: Unknown
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This experimental silent short is very rare (filmed in 8mm) and only lasts 11 minutes. Nigel Gordon, film student, filmed Syd Barrettwhile he tripped on mushrooms. |
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Sympathy for the Devil
1968
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, Godard reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes |
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