544 - Head (1968)

Bob Rafelson’s Head offers an acid-dipped, musical journey through the artistic and professional frustrations of the Monkees, post TV show and struggling apologize for their existence with the verylanguage of the flower-powered, freak-out culture that had long-since rejected them.  Never quite settling on a format, the film jumps from comic vignette, to surrealist mindscape, tv show parody, concert performance, and A Hard Day’s Night-style band chase reimagined as a sun-soaked Californian suicide.

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train (1989).