Head
Hey, hey, it’s the Monkees . . . being catapulted through one of American cinema’s most surreal sixties odysseys. The brainchild of Bob Rafelson, making his directorial debut; his producing partner and Monkees cocreator Bert Schneider; and Jack Nicholson, a coscreenwriter on the project, Head was the fanciful beginning and ignominious end of the TV-bred supergroup’s big-screen career. In it, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork become trapped in a kaleidoscopic satire that’s movie homage, media send-up, concert movie, and antiwar cry all at once. A constantly looping, self-referential spoof that was ahead of its time, Head dodged commercial success on its release but has since been reclaimed as one of the great cult objects of its era.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack and newly created, optional DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary featuring the Monkees
- New video interview with director Bob Rafelson
- New documentary about BBS featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
- Screen tests with the Monkees
- Trailers and TV and radio spots
- Ephemera, including behind-the-scenes photos by Henry Diltz
- Rare 1968 television interview with the Monkees
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Available In
Collector's Set
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack and newly created, optional DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary featuring the Monkees
- New video interview with director Bob Rafelson
- New documentary about BBS featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
- Screen tests with the Monkees
- Trailers and TV and radio spots
- Ephemera, including behind-the-scenes photos by Henry Diltz
- Rare 1968 television interview with the Monkees
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Cast
- Peter Tork
- Davy Jones
- Micky Dolenz
- Michael Nesmith
- Annette Funicello
- Minnie
- Timothy Carey
- Lord High’n Low
- Logan Ramsey
- Off. Faye Lapid
- Abraham Sofaer
- Swami
- Vito Scotti
- I. Vitteloni
- Charles MacCaulay
- Inspector Shrink
- T. C. Jones
- Mr. and Mrs. Ace
- Charles Irving
- Mayor Feedback
- William Bagdad
- Black Sheik
- Percy Helton
- Heraldic Messenger
Credits
- Director
- Bob Rafelson
- Written and produced by
- Bob Rafelson
- Written and produced by
- Jack Nicholson
- Executive producer
- Bert Schneider
- Choreographer
- Toni Basil
- Set decorator
- Ned Parsons
- Editing
- Mike Pozen, A.C.E.
- Art director
- Sydney Z. Litwack
- Incidental music composed and conducted by
- Ken Thorne
