September 21: Shampoo

September 21 @ 9PM: Shampoo USA 1975 d. Hal Ashby with Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Jack Warden and Tony Bill. Colour. 106m

Links:  AFI  IMDB  Wikipedia  Full Hal Ashby Programme

So, here’s a film set during one of those other times the USA elected a corrupt, paranoid vulgarian President. Also a meditation on hairdressing, class relations, and the sexual and social mores of the upper class bohos of late sixties Los Angeles who were about to invent the ‘Me’ generation. And Carrie Fisher’s first film role!