1966, Directed by Conrad Rooks

No, your speakers have not broken. There is no sound at the very start of this trailer.

Conrad Rooks wrote, directed and starred in this seemingly autobiographical tale of an extended cold turkey session, undertaken after 5 years of solid drug addiction. Sounds jolly!

I’d never heard of Rooks but he appears to have been at the heart of the sixties psychedelia scene if this movie’s cameos are anything to go by - Allen Ginsberg, Ravi Shankar and William S. Burroughs himself all appear as actors. Far out, etc.

This trailer has a distinctly art-school feel about it - I have a horrible feeling Chappaqua was some kind of trippy vanity project for Rooks. I’d lay down money that there is no coherent plot and dull, extended hallucination scenes. Hey, it did win the Silver Lion Award for pretentious self-indulgence at the Venice Film Festival…

Favourite bit: “I withdraw from the case!”

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