

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.
Directed by Conrad Rooks, Francis Bouche
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12 votes
Released
August 30, 1966
1h 22m
English

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Ravi Shankar
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Ornette Coleman
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Penny Brown
Ed Sanders
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Peter Orlovsky
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Rita Renoir

Tuli Kupferberg
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Hervé Villechaize
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Jasper Redhat
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