Cherchez la femme boheme! Shasta Fay Hepworth is Inherent Vice’s enigmatic beauty with sartorial sensibilities to match her beaux—both hip and square.
Given bohemia’s continued reign on the Fall catwalks and with festival season just around the corner, we’ve got peace, love, and psychedelic style
on the brain. This weekend we’ll be unwinding with a few of our
favorite countercultural coups from the big screen. And while some will
certainly bemoan the lack of Penny Lane on our list, here are our
suggestions for seven flicks to turn on, tune in, and drop out with.
Antonioni’s famously meandering Zabriskie Point
might be a divisive cinematic achievement; maybe less divisive are the
wiles of a dusty, desert orgy between comely young counterculturalists.
Photo: Courtesy of MGM
Milla Jovovich had a small role in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused,
but she still managed to strum a few bars of a track she penned in real
life, “The Alien Song”—and looked damned good doing it.
Photo: Courtesy of Gramercy Pictures
Easy Rider: the quintessential counterculture flick, which sent so many out in search of a leather jacket as cool as Henry Fonda’s.
Photo: Courtesy of Columbia Pictures
“Let it fly in the breeze and
get caught in the trees,” exhort the Central Park hippies of the titular
tresses in archetypal rock opera Hair.
Photo: Courtesy of United Artists
In I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, Leigh Taylor-Young is the hippie who sends square Peter Sellers down a path of psychedelic discovery.
Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros.
Shelley Duvall’s rock writer character in Annie Hall may not have won the heart of Alvy Singer, but her enviable style certainly won ours.
