Title: Head (film)
Content: Head (film) Head is a 1968 American satirical musical adventure film written by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, directed by Rafelson, starring television rock group The Monkees (Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith), and distributed by Columbia Pictures. During production, one of the working titles for the film was "Changes", which was later the name of an unrelated album by The Monkees. Another working title was "Untitled". A rough cut of the film was previewed for audiences in Los Angeles in the summer of 1968 under the name "Movee Untitled". The film featured Victor Mature as "The

Title: Head (film)
Content: August 1968 screening in Los Angeles eventually forced the producers to edit the picture from its original 110-minute length. The 86-minute "Head" premiered in New York City on November 6, 1968; the film later debuted in Hollywood on November 20. It was not a commercial success. This was in part because "Head", being an antithesis of "The Monkees" sitcom, comprehensively demolished the group's carefully groomed public image while the older, hipper counterculture audience they had been reaching for rejected The Monkees' efforts out of hand. The film's release also was delayed (partly because of the use of solarization, a then-new

Title: Bert Schneider
Content: the counterculture film "Head" (1968), starring The Monkees, directed by Rafelson and featuring a screenplay co-written by Rafelson and Jack Nicholson. The film bombed in its initial release due to poor distribution and the lack of a target audience for 1968. Monkees fans were disappointed that the disjointed, stream-of-consciousness ring of stories was not just an expanded episode. Art film enthusiasts may have embraced its creativity but were not interested in a film by the "pre-fab four." In recent years, the film has received above average reviews from critics and fans alike as an interesting 1960s period piece. They had

Title: Head (film)
Content: technique both laborious and expensive) and badly under-promoted. The sole television commercial was a confusing minimalist close-up shot of a man's head (John Brockman); after 30 seconds the man smiled and the name HEAD appeared on his forehead. This ad was a parody of Andy Warhol's 1963 film "Blow Job", which only showed a close-up of a man's face for an extended period, supposedly receiving 'head'. Receiving mixed critical reviews and virtually non-existent box office receipts, the film succeeded in alienating the band's teenage fanbase while failing to attract the more adult audience for which they had strived. "Head"s abysmal

Title: Head (film)
Content: project as a whole: Signals, sounds, and ideas interfere with each other throughout." The soundtrack includes: Trailers summarized it as a "most extraordinary adventure, western, comedy, love story, mystery, drama, musical, documentary satire ever made (And that's putting it mildly)." There were no pictures of The Monkees on the original poster; only a picture of John Brockman, who did the PR for the film. "Head" was one of the first films to be advertised with an MPAA rating, with newspaper advertisements in New York daily papers on November 1, 1968 displaying a G rating. A poor audience response at an

Question: Which 60s pop band made an unsuccessful movie called Head?
Answer: The Monkees