My Love Story Movie
My Psychedelic Love Story, 2020. Directed by Errol Morris. SYNOPSIS: Counterculture prophet, LSD advocate and ideological revolutionary Timothy Leary made his mark. This documentary looks back at. (Japanese: 俺物語!!, Hepburn: Ore Monogatari!!, lit.' It's My Story!!' ), is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written by Kazune Kawahara and illustrated by Aruko. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine and is being published in English by Viz Media. An anime television adaptation by Madhouse began airing in April 2015 and a live action film. The love story of young adults Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri is told. Oliver comes from an extremely well off and old money New England family, the Barrett name which holds much gravitas and which is plastered especially all over Harvard where Oliver is in pre-law. My Psychedelic Love Story. Rated TV14. 101 minutes. An examination of the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith. Academy Award® winning director Errol Morris recounts the wild adventures of two seemingly innocent people on the run in this international saga of mystery and lust. ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ Review: On the Run With Timothy Leary This Errol Morris documentary explores the relationship between the LSD guru and Joanna Harcourt-Smith, a woman who likened herself.
UPDATED, 2:15 PM: We now have the first trailer for Showtime Documentary Films’ feature-length docu about LSD pioneer Timothy Leary from Oscar-winning director Errol Morris. The pic has been titledMy Psychedelic Love Story and is set to premiere at 9 p.m. Sunday, November 29, on premium cable net. Check out the trailer above and read details about the movie below. There’s also a clip from the documentary at the bottom of the post.
PREVIOUSLY, May 26: Showtime Documentary Films unveiled a new docu feature from Oscar-winning director Errol Morris (Wormwood, The Fog of War) that will spotlight the polarizing psychedelic drug advocate Timothy Leary. The docu, which currently has the working title of A Film By Errol Morris will debut later this year on Showtime.
Known as the High Priest of LSD, the docu will dive deep into why he became a narc in 1974 and turned his back on the millions he urged to turn on, tune in and drop out. The feature will also dive into his relationship with his “perfect love” Joanna Harcourt-Smith, who Allen Ginsberg suggested was a government pawn. With Morris, Harcourt-Smith will reexamine the chaotic period of her life and explore the mystery of the Leary saga, including his period of exile, reimprisonment and subsequent cooperation with the authorities. The film is inspired by Harcourt-Smith’s memoir, Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story.
“This is a dream project,” said Morris. “I’m always looking for alternative ways into a story. You never want to go through the front door. Or even the back door. Much better to find an attic window that has been left ajar.”
He adds, “Joanna Harcourt-Smith, who had a love affair with Timothy Leary, wrote a book detailing how they met, how they fell in love, how they took drugs together, how he ended up in prison. And then something surprising happened. I found Joanna as interesting as Timothy Leary, perhaps even more so. It was a way to tell a story about the ’70s in a powerful and unexpected way. Cataclysm 4.3 4 addons. I’m excited to be working with Showtime and I can’t believe my good fortune.”
A Film By Errol Morris (wt) is being produced for Showtime by Fourth Floor Productions & Moxie Pictures. Morris is executive producer while Robert Fernandez and Steven Hathaway are producers.
Watch a clip featuring Harcourt-Smith from the docu below.
My Love Story Movie
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MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY (TV)
(director/writer: Errol Morris; screenwriter: based on the book: Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story by Johanna Harcourt-Smith; cinematographer: Igor Martinović; editor: Steve Hathaway; music: Paul Leonard-Morgan.; cast: Errol Morris, Timothy Leary, Johanna Harcourt-Smith; Runtime: 102; MPAA Rating: TV-14; producers: Errol Morris, Robert Fernandez, Steve Hathaway; Showtime; 2020)
“The main characters were so limited.”
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Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
The prolific documentarian Errol Morris’s (“The Thin Blue Line”/”Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.”) adaptation of the 2013 memoir Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary by Johanna Harcourt-Smith is an engaging one but not a good one. Johanna Harcourt-Smith, the celebrity socialite and vacuous radical, was briefly linked to the LSD guru Timothy Leary from 1974 to 1977. The middle-aged former Harvard psychology professor was the lover of the much younger woman while on the run from Nixon’s war on drug agent goons.
The promiscuous party-girl Harcourt-Smith’s affair with the outcast LSD guru Timothy Leary began in 1974, when Leary was on the lam and hiding in a ritzy Swiss hotel. Their relationship ended in 1977 over an argument. They were living together in an FBI Witness Protection program in Santa Fe, after nabbed in Kabul. The slimy dude to save his ass had turned “snitch” and informed on his former disciples.
Their relationship forms the basis of this historic narrative, but fails to make any history because the main characters were so limited.
“My Psychedelic Love Story” is a sequel to the 2017 Errol Morris-directed TV mini-series, “Wormwood.”
In the narrative, Morris brings up things about HS’s time spent with Leary and questions her experiences globe-trotting around the world with the guru and the many strange and famous characters she met while with him, including the shady Hungarian banker Arpad Plesch, the celebrity Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and someone called Donald Strange.
Now in her 70s (she passed away in October, just after the movie release) HS sits in her living room on a sofa and freely tells tales of her bohemian life of free love, her childhood sexual abuse in Switzerland at age 5 with her tutor and, all the while, comparing herself to Greta Garbo playing Mata Hari in the 1931 spy film. She tells us in all seriousness, which she passes off as the wisdom she learned as a bohemian, that “You can never tell how rich people are.” There are clips of the womanizer fraud LSD guru saying even more ridiculous things.
The crux of the film has HS questioned by Morris, who asks if she was a “C.I.A. sex provocateur, ” as accused of being by the poet Allen Ginsburg. The hippie poet claimed she entrapped Leary to be taken into custody by CIA agents and had him returned to prison after his escape. Her catty reply was: “Was I?” Which suggests she was. But Morris was not after the truth, he just felt comfortable letting her blather on and never pressed her for answers. Morris accepts her as a liar and merely views her as an amusing publicity hound and a parasite who made her name off the other eccentrics she surrounded herself with.
We get the picture of both characters as immoral dirt-bags, who were unscrupulous operators you don’t want to be around (with the lady liar being more dangerous than the snaky man). They were people who really have nothing to say of value and whom you can’t trust.
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REVIEWED ON 12/5/2020 GRADE: B-