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This story starts in Lausanne but then winds up in Vienna, Beirut, and Kabul. Two lovers—a celebrated 52-year-old professor and a 27-year-old socialite—are on the run from the US authorities, rubbing elbows with all the big names and doing lots of LSD. Naturally, their odyssey is rife with politics, intrigue, guns, espionage, betrayal, and sex. Joanna Harcourt-Smith invited filmmaker Errol Morris to interview her as she divulged every detail about her love affair with Timothy Leary, the 1960s High Priest of LSD. Branded “public enemy number one” by Nixon, Leary was caught and eventually imprisoned. Harcourt-Smith, who was there beside him the whole time, remained a mystery until now. In this colorful and suspenseful film, Morris tries to find out: was she an innocent girl? Or was she a spy?

Previous Festivals: DOC NYC

Screening Schedule:
  • Fri 02.07 | 21:00 | Cinematheque 3
  • Wed 07.07 | 21:15 | Cinematheque 1
  • Sat 10.07 | 22:00 | Cinematheque 1
  • Sat 10.07 | 22:00 | Cinematheque 1
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Morris's films have won many awards, including an Oscar for The Fog of War, the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for A Brief History of Time, the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Standard Operating Procedure, and the Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for The Thin Blue Line. His films have been honored by the National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review. Morris's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Roger Ebert called his first film, Gates of Heaven (1978), one of the ten best films of all time.

Morris is the author of two New York Times best sellers, Believing is Seeing and A Wilderness of Error, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times opinion pages and Op-Docs series.

Morris has directed over 1000 television commercials, including campaigns for Apple, Levi's, Nike, Target, Citibank, and Miller High Life. He has directed short films for the 2002 and 2007 Academy Awards, ESPN, and many charitable and political organizations. In 2001, Morris won an Emmy for "Photobooth," a commercial for PBS.

Morris has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2007, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a graduate student at Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley. He has received the Columbia Journalism Award and honorary degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brandeis University, and Middlebury College.

Morris lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Julia Sheehan, an art historian, and their French Bulldog, Ivan.

Production: Robert Fernandez, Steven Hathaway, Errol Morris
Editing: Steven Hathaway
Cinematography: Igor Martinovic
Music: Paul Leonard-Morgan

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