1968 · musical · counterculture · surreal
Head
Directed by Bob Rafelson1h 26m1968
In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.
Our read: Head (1968) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal musical · counterculture · surreal entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured musical / counterculture, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- surreal
- intimate
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How Head feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want sixties psychedelic satire shredding TV fame and Vietnam TV.”
Skip it tonight — You need coherent story; this is deliberate channel-surfing chaos.
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