DOC
Year: 2008 / Running Time: 95 mins
Directed by: Immy Humes
Featuring: George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, William Styron, Peter Matthiessen, Paul Auster, Timothy Leary, Alan Cheuse, Jonas Mekas, and other luminaries, friends and family of H.L. "Doc" Humes
Exhibition format: BetaSP/ Digibeta
Upcoming Screening:
Cinematheque Winnipeg, April 8 & 9, 2009
Year: 2008 / Running Time: 95 mins
Directed by: Immy Humes
Featuring: George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, William Styron, Peter Matthiessen, Paul Auster, Timothy Leary, Alan Cheuse, Jonas Mekas, and other luminaries, friends and family of H.L. "Doc" Humes
Exhibition format: BetaSP/ Digibeta
Upcoming Screening:
Cinematheque Winnipeg, April 8 & 9, 2009
SYNOPSIS:
The amazing adventures of H.L. "Doc" Humes, the man who put the culture in counterculture. With Lord Buckley, the Hip Messiah; paper houses for the poor; Don Peyote, a lost Beat take on Cervantes; the CIA, FBI, marijuana, massage, utopia—and paranoia.
In the 1950s and early '60s, Doc co-founded The Paris Review, wrote two acclaimed novels, and was a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London and New York. Doc was a 1950s NYC intellectual, a 60s free speech militant, and a 70s visionary crazy genius. His story is the story of decades of cultural history, a poignant personal long-strange-trip, and a fount of ever-relevant ideas.
