Films

HEAD – THE MONKEES
55TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING FOR STROBE

HEAD
Starring THE MONKEES
55th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
Presented by Groovescooter for
STROBE MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL
7.40PM, SATURDAY MAY 27, 2023
Golden Age Cinema & Bar
Commonwealth St, Surry Hills

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Directed by: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Davy Jones & The Monkees, Jack Nicholson,
Dennis Hopper, Frank Zappa & more

 

“Mad, but highly watchable”  [Empire]

“Remarkably vital and entertaining” [Time Out]

“[The] most extraordinary adventure, western, comedy, love story, mystery, drama, musical, documentary satire ever made (and that’s putting it mildly)” [Columbia]

Hey hey, we’re bringing this psychedelic, chaotic cult-classic, adventure-mystery-musical, docu-satire back to the big screen to celebrate its full-throttle whacked-out absurdity and its 55th Anniversary. Starring The Monkees and featuring some terrific Monkees music (including soundtrack gems like the dreamy psych-saturated Porpoise Song), HEAD was the group’s career-suicide move, a “mind-bending cinema experiment in pop-art” (American Cinematheque). Filmed in California and directed/co-written by Bob Rafelson (Easy RiderFive Easy Pieces), the movie arrived not long after the band’s popular TV show was axed, confusing both reviewers and audiences. Unapologetically containing no discernible plot, it tracks Monkees members Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz through hallucinatory escapades as they encounter everyone from swamis, mermaids, kissing-competition judges and bellydancers, to politicians and critics, played by big kahunas like Dennis Hopper, Frank Zappa and co-writer Jack Nicholson. Throughout the musical numbers, farcical scenes and extended non sequiturs, the four Monkees throw both themselves and the entertainment industry they’re sending up on a bonfire and delight, like you will, in watching it burn.

Rarely seen on cinema screens in the last five decades and largely a flop on its release in 1968, like many cult film curios, Head is nonetheless a must-see.

HEAD 55th Anniversary Screening - STROBE Festival
HEAD 55th Anniversary Screening - STROBE Festival