NOV 3-5 Fri-Sun at 7, 8:30, 10pm

TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON

(Peter Whitehead, United Kingdom, 1967, BetaSP, 70 min.)

Sponsored by KEXP and Easy Street Records

The definitive document of Swinging London! One of the few filmmakers trusted within the perfumed gardens of 1960s Britain's music and art scene, Whitehead used his unparalleled access to capture a historic pop culture moment in a kaleidoscopic film. With contributions from the likes of Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, Julie Christie, Lee Marvin and David Hockney, TONITE presents a dazzling and intimate record from the very core of the in-crowd and includes music by Pink Floyd, among many others. "Not a documentary in any ordinary sense," wrote VARIETY, "but rather an impressionistic view of the 'land of mod' as seen by a sympathetic participant."

NOV 4-5 Sat-Sun at 3, 5pm

THE BEACH BOYS IN LONDON

(Peter Whitehead, United Kingdom, 1967, BetaSP, 30 min.)

Sponsored by KEXP and Easy Street Records

Whitehead's rare document of the Beach Boys' 1966 UK Tour. The film features The Beach Boys at their peak; Brian Wilson stayed in Los Angeles to finish recording SMILE, leaving the band to fly to London by popular demand.

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PINK FLOYD, LONDON '66-'67

(Peter Whitehead, United Kingdom, 1967, BetaSP, 30 min.)

A record of Pink Floyd's recording sessions for the TONITE soundtrack, PINK FLOYD features footage of the band (then helmed by soon-to-vanish Syd Barrett) playing in the studio, at the UFO Club, and at the "14 Hour Technicolor Dream" happening at London's Alexandra Palace, an event that included a performance by Yoko Ono (John Lennon watched from the audience).

NOV 6 Mon at 7, 9pm

WHOLLY COMMUNION

(Peter Whitehead, United Kingdom, 1965, BetaSP, 33 min.)

Sponsored by KEXP and Easy Street Records

The documentary that effectively launched Whitehead's career, WHOLLY COMMUNION captures the historic first meeting of American and British Beat poets at Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965. An audience of 7,000 witnessed live readings by prominent poets Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso and Adrian Mitchell.

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THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT

(Peter Whitehead, United Kingdom, 1967, BetaSP, 65 min.)

Peter Brook directs the Royal Shakespeare Company in US, a semi-improvised work protesting England's unseen and unacknowledged role in the Vietnam War. Containing sequences at public meetings and interviews with the actors (including Glenda Jackson) and Brook himself, the film is an agit-prop time capsule that has gone virtually unseen in this country since its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1967.

"For Americans interested in current theatrical trends [THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT] could be a must, since it's their only current opportunity to see one of the most adventuresome and controversial stage productions of the last few years." -VARIETY

NOV 7 Tues. at 7, 9pm

DADDY

(Peter Whitehead, France/United Kingdom, 1973, BetaSP, 90 min.)

Sponsored by KEXP and Easy Street Records

One of Whitehead's few out-right fictions, DADDY began as a documentary about French sculptress Niki de St. Phalle and ended up as a fantasy about a woman's attempts to exorcise the influence of her sexually domineering father. Alternately gothic and surreal, the film follows protagonists de St. Phalle and Mia Martin acting out their fantasies on unfortunate patriarch Rainer von Diez in a kind of "let's get daddy" charade.

NOV 8 Wed at 7, 9pm

FIRE IN THE WATER

(Peter Whitehead, United Kingdom, 1977, BetaSP, 90 min.)

Sponsored by KEXP and Easy Street Records

Set in the Scottish highlands, FIRE IN THE WATER is an alchemical allegory in which a filmmaker edits a documentary and reflects on his career while his girlfriend roams the countryside alone. The documentary-within-the-film includes appearances by Allen Ginsberg, David Hockney and John Lennon, and the film features music by The Animals, The Who and Jimi Hendrix.

NOV 9-10 Thurs-Fri at 7, 9:30pm

POP FILMS

(Peter Whitehead, United Kingdom, 1966-69, BetaSP, 120 min.)

Sponsored by KEXP and Easy Street Records

Whitehead's work with the Small Faces, The Beach Boys and Nico was the very inception of the artful, experimental and daring pop promo. This program includes nearly two hours of promo films, the first-ever footage of Pink Floyd (with the recently deceased Syd Barrett) performing live and in-studio, and some rare surprises from the director's extensive archive.

NOV 11-12 Sat-Sun at 7, 9:30pm

THE FALL

(Peter Whitehead, United Kingdom, 1969, BetaSP, 120 min.)

Sponsored by KEXP and Easy Street Records

Considered by Whitehead to be his most important film, THE FALL is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking, an extremely personal statement on violence, revolution and the turbulence in late 1960s America. Filmed entirely in and around New York between October 1967 and June 1968, THE FALL features Robert Kennedy, the Bread and Puppet Theater, Paul Auster (fresh-faced as a Columbia student), Tom Hayden, Mark Rudd, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Arthur Miller, Robert Lowell and Robert Rauschenberg. Richard Roud, co-director of the New York Film Festival, called the film "an attempt to come to grips with today, both in terms of its content as well as its form."

"THE FALL is unlike any other record of the period, perhaps because its very obscurity has kept it fresh" -LA WEEKLY