| Have a Psychedelic Summer 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love Film Festival It was forty years ago that young people from around the United States flocked to the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco for the Summer of Love. Media coverage took what had been brewing in Haight-Ashbury for a couple of years and exposed Hippies to the national audience. The Summer of Love lasted only that one summer, but flower children returning to their homes spread the hippie counterculture across the nation. Two years later Woodstock helped define the generation and Altamont helped end it. Friday - Sunday August 3, 4 and 5 at 7:00 THE HIPPIE TEMPTATION A CBS Special Report with Harry Reasoner. This report took the avuncular Mr. Reasoner to Haight-Ashbury to report to the nation just what was going on and he wasn't happy with what he saw. The report is filled with wonderful footage of the psychedelic scene with the high point being Mr. Reasoner's visit to the Grateful Dead house. There he asks the members of the band if they use drugs. They happily admit they do. Friday August 3 at 9:00 LSD Flashback Drug Scare Films The show will open with the Tim Smith Matt Groening film Drugs: Killers of Dillers. Tim and Matt made this dead on spoof of drug scare films while in high school in Portland in 1972. It will be followed by the film that inspired it LSD Trip or Trap which was made by the great Sid Davis in 1967. Also shown will be the astonishing All My Tomorrows, the harrowing The Day I Died and the perplexing and hilarious Beyond LSD. Saturday August 4 at 9:00 The 1967 Psychedelic and Rock and Roll Film Show. After watching the Hippie Temptation you will be more prepared than you would have thought possible to experience fabulous acts from the Summer of Love on the big screen. Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sly and the Family Stone, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, John and Yoko and more. Oh, yes the more includes Tiny Tim. Sunday August 5 at 9:00 Wild In the Streets (1968) American International Pictures got this out as fast as they could, but they couldn't get it out until May of 1968. This is a one of a kind film and a wonderful time capsule of the era. It concerns a rock star becoming president and who puts all Americans over the age of thirty in concentration camps and force feeds them LSD. Christopher Jones plays the rock star prez. Shelley Winters plays his mom. What more could you ask for? All programs will be in glorious 16mm except for Wild In the Streets which will be in stunning 35mm. Standard Clinton Street Theater prices apply for this once in a lifetime show The Psychedelic and Rock and Rock and Roll show complete: CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, LOOKING OUT MY BACKDOOR, 1970, 4m.
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