Underplayed Gems

You Are What You Eat (1968)

You Are What You Eat poster
Directed by
Barry Feinstein
Genre
music, documentary
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rating
4.4 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This film mixes documentary and fiction to show the flower power hippie scene in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. It features musicians and local characters including a famous drug dealer and a radio DJ.

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What happens

You Are What You Eat is a 1968 American counterculture semi-documentary movie that attempts to capture the essence of the 1960s flower power hippie era and the Haight-Ashbury scene. The film was directed by Barry Feinstein and features locally known personalities, including well known drug dealer Super Spade (Bill Powell Jr) and musicians of the day, including Tiny Tim, David Crosby and Peter Yarrow, and radio disc jockey, Rosko. The film soundtrack features music by John Simon and by artists as diverse as Paul Butterfield, The Electric Flag, Eleanor Barooshian, Peter Yarrow, John Herald and Harpers Bizarre, accompanied by several members of The Band. The film was preserved and restored by Ed Carter at the archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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