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Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 – August 23, 1966) was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife . [ 1 ] He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s.
The Good Heart is an Icelandic independent film written and directed by Dagur Kári, starring Brian Cox and Paul Dano. [1] It debuted at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival . Plot
Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991) was a German-born American impresario and rock concert promoter.. In the early 1960s, Graham moved to San Francisco, and in 1965, began to manage the San Francisco Mime Troupe. [2]
A film clip of Drug Abuse: The Chemical Tomb is available for viewing at the Internet Archive; A film clip of Greenwich Village Sunday is available for viewing at the Internet Archive; HippieTV, in Norwegian; Hippie Movies & TV Shows; A film clip of Peace March.
Roadside Attractions, LLC is an American production company and film distributor based in Los Angeles, California, founded on July 27, 2000, by Howard Cohen and Eric d'Arbeloff. [1] Lionsgate Films bought a portion of Roadside in 2007, and has majorly served as the arthouse division for the studio since then.
Cheaper Thrills is a live album by Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin as their lead singer. Recorded live at one of their earliest concerts in San Francisco at California Hall on July 28, 1966, it includes the band's rendition of the song "Let the Good Times Roll," which was ten years old at the time.
Chimes at Midnight premiered to a favorable audience reception at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. But after New York Times critic Bosley Crowther 's unfavorable advance review, American distributor Harry Saltzman decided to give the film little publicity and minimal distribution when it was released in the U.S. the next year. [ 73 ]
The Human Be-In was announced on the cover of the fifth issue of the San Francisco Oracle as "A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In". The occasion was a new California law banning the use of the psychedelic drug LSD that had come into effect on October 6, 1966. [4] The speakers at the rally were all invited by Bowen, the main organizer.