AFF: Wednesday June 14th

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound To Lose — two musical soulmates who drive each other up the wall; both get carried off in the drug waves of the 60’s; one cleans himself up in the late 70’s, but the other takes another 20 years to do it — defying the expectations of everyone else waiting for him to die. Great documentary about dysfunctional artists, patient fans and the flipside of charisma and magnetic personalities.

Passion & Poetry – The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah — a sonofabitch to work with but a great director (The Wild Bunch, Cross Of Iron); the documentary itself was actually fairly bad and far too long, what with all the sycophantic Germans and Ernest Borgnine belly laughs.