Timothy Leary

Total Credits at Criticker: 21 (Actor), 1 (Writer)
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After Harvard expelled Richard Alpert for LSD experimentation in 1964, the former professor traveled to India and returned as Ram Dass. Now in his seventies, the author of Be Hear Now continues to teach and inspire as he deals with the effects of a massive stroke. Follow one indomitable man's journey from 1960s counterculture to the present as he transforms an unexpected illness into a call for grace. [PBS]
Disguised as ice cream vendors, Cheech and Chong make--and subsequently lose--millions of dollars selling a batch of marijuana with an unusual side effect. (imdb)
Journalizing his final year before dying of cancer in May 1996, this documentary takes a sentimental walk down memory-lane to honor a man whose place in history is surely guaranteed. Probably best known for his oft-quoted (and misunderstood) 1960s phrase wherein Dr.Leary encouraged everyone to "turn on, tune in and drop out", the filmmakers sought to capture the real man behind the legend... (imdb)
Eli is a burglar who is caught in the act by Twinkle, an heiress who coerces him into a sexual relationship. Their violent break-up makes him a fugitive in search of a new identity. He lands in a trashy trailer park where he touches the lives of several dysfunctional residents. (imdb)
Documentary about the founding of the Naropa Institute of Poetics in Boulder, Colorado by 60s psychedelic sexual revolution and beat poet heavy-hitters.
A look at the life of Aldous Huxley, mainly through the eyes of his second wife Laura. (imdb)
A brave group of teenagers foil an evil industrialist's plot to dump toxic waste into the water supply of a small town. (TCM)
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's fabled road trip across America.
The film explores the ideas and histories of groundbreaking artists, hippy idealists, counterculturalists, cyberneticists and neo-luddite Unabomber. (en.wikipedia.org)
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. (imdb)
This important ideological comment on the radical American youth culture embodies its values even in structure and style. A most creatively edited montage of the "struggle between life and death culture in America", it mingles Allen Ginsberg, Buckminster Fuller, Abbie Hoffman, and John Lennon with newsreels, subliminal effects, doctored TV images, the A-bomb, the Chicago Trial, the matrix of the new generation's sensibility -- to create a "psychedelic" equation of fact and metaphysics. (Amos Vogel)
Set on the dark side of Hollywood, B-Movie maven Harry Costas (Burt Young) is forced to protect the screen legacy of his wife Helga (Lainie Kazan) when a low-life upstart producer threatens to ruin her image. (imdb)
The Drug Years (2006) - TV Mini-Series
A look at the rise of illicit drug use and its cultural influence in the second half of the last century. (imdb)
Last Trip gives a brief introduction to LSD, the lives of Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey with the Merry Pranksters.
How to Operate Your Brain (1994) - Direct-to-Video
How to Operate Your Brain, is a 29 minute, guided, electronic (spoken/musical) meditation. In it, Dr. Leary tries to impart to the listener essential aspects of his visionary LSD experiences. While it may have been intended for use with drugs to provide some of the positive "set" and "setting" that he saw as essential for a good "trip", it stands alone as a profound, guided meditation. In it, you will hear some of the central, sacred principles of Yoism.
My Psychedelic Love Story (2020) - TV Movie
An examination of the high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith. Was Leary's "perfect love" a CIA plant or was she simply a rich, beautiful young woman out for the adventure of a lifetime?
It is 2012 and a very old Louis van Gasteren is reviewing an earlier phase in his life in a video editing suite. In the movie he is watching, a 42 year old Louis stands watching garbage cans loaded into a truck in 1964. The older Louis reflects upon his own image as a young man, "At the age of 90, it's strange to look back at myself then. I see myself, knowing what has happened to me since, Yes, it's me but then again it isn't."
John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intelligence and support of psychedelics as a positive means for expanding consciousness. The storytelling will be supported by interviews with Lilly’s contemporaries and colleagues, as well as extensive archival records.