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9 videodiscs (690 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Executive producer, Bert Schneider
An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical (Head)
Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, Victor Mature, Annette Funicello (Head) ; Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson (Easy rider) ; Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach (Five easy pieces) ; William Tepper, Karen Black, Margaret Margotta, Bruce Dern, Mike Warren (Drive, he said) ; Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles (A safe place) ; Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd (The last picture show) ; Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn (The king of Marvin Gardens)
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America, encountering along the way its big cities and small towns, a hippie commune, and drugs and sex in New Orleans. (Easy rider)
Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness. (Five easy pieces)
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Hector (Tepper) is a confused basketball star at an Ohio college. He can't decide whether he wants to be a professional or spend his time rabble rousing with the radicals on campus. He is also having an affair with Olive (Black), the wife of Richard (Towne) an older professor. Hector's best friend Gabriel (Margotta) is about to be drafted for Vietnam. At his induction physical, Gabriel pretends to be crazy to avoid the draft. He then attempts to rape Olive but is foiled when Hector and Richard return unexpectedly. Gabriel then winds up going mad for real. (Drive, he said)
A attractive, but lonely and confused, woman seems to flit back and forth in time and between reality and fantasy under the eye of a mysterious magician. (A safe place)
A bittersweet drama of the social and sexual mores in small-town 1950s Texas. (The last picture show)
Gritty story of small-time losers and big-time dreamers in Atlantic City. (The king of Marvin Gardens)