Unconventional appearance, music, drugs, communitarian experiments, and sexual liberation were hallmarks of the sixties counterculture, most of whose members were white, middle-class young Americans. To some Americans, these attributes reflected American ideals of free speech, equality, and pursuit of happiness. Other people saw the counterculture as self-indulgent, pointlessly rebellious, unpatriotic, and destructive of America's moral order. Authorities banned the psychedelic drug LSD, restricted political gatherings, and tried to enforce bans on what they considered obscenity in books, music, theatre, and other media. Parents argued with their children and worried about their safety. Some adults accepted elements of the counterculture, while others became estranged from sons and daughters.
Exceptional adaptation of the musical stars Treat Williams as a hippie who meets John Savage, a youth from Oklahoma bound for Vietnam. Forman moves th... Read more
With the idiosyncratic American fable "Harold and Maude", countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era.... Read more
With the idiosyncratic American fable "Harold and Maude", countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era.... Read more
One of the cult films of the '60s, with the Monkees in a kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes, full of '60s psychedelia. Written by director Rafelson ('F... Read more
Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong), an uptight and disillusioned medical student, is failed by one of his professors, who happens to be his father. Seeking... Read more
Razor-sharp satire from co-writers Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker, with Peter Sellers as a fuddy-duddy lawyer who, after leaving his fiancee at the al... Read more
Lili Taylor is eerily convincing as Valerie Solanas, Factory fringe figure, founder and only member of SCUM (Society for Cutting up Men) and the woman... Read more
Based on Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich', this remarkable film by Bernard Rose, stars Danny Huston, (son of John), as a powerful Hollywood agent... Read more
One of the milestone films of its era, this satirical drama stars Peter Boyle as a bigoted, beer-swilling hardhat who helps a strait-laced advertising... Read more
Stacy Peralta wrote the screenplay for this filmisation of his 2001 documentary 'Dogtown and Z-Boys'. Recalling the story of pioneer skaters Tony Alv... Read more