HEAD

"One of American cinema's most surreal 60s odysseys … a kaleidoscopic satire that's movie homage, media send-up, concert movie, and anti-war cry all at once." – Criterion

In the 1960s, there were few odder pop music sensations than The Monkees. Created for a television sitcom and fronted by an actor with no musical background, the band accumulated a succession of number-one hits in the United States and a legion of teenage fans. This all came to a screeching halt, however, with Head.

Scripted by a then-unknown Jack Nicholson and starring the not-so-fab foursome as themselves, Head is one of the strangest films of its era: an often hilarious acid trip that shifts easily from slapstick and pop music numbers to psychedelic flourishes and war footage. A box-office bomb in its day, it is now seen as an essential piece of 60s American counterculture.