Dynamite Chicken
1969, R, 76 min.
Directed by Ernest Pintoff, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jimi Hendrix, Allen Ginsburg, Lenny Bruce, Al Goldstein, Paul Krassner, Malcolm X, Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Richard Pryor.

This rarely screened melange of skits, songs, parodies, and old movie clips that feature a kaleidoscope of countercultural figures comes across as disturbingly dated now that film nudity and rebellion have become commonplace sights, although the clips of Richard Pryor are always cited as among the film’s ultimate treasures. The movie is double-billed with Wattstax.

This article appears in August 2 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.