LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS (1959-1967) is a psychedelic travelogue film that documents a series of "trips" through rural Mexico and urban America. Conner combined street views of San Francisco shot in the late 1950s with scenes of rural Oaxaca captured during his "mushroom-hunting" excursions between 1961 and 1962, when Bruce and his wife, Jean, were living in Mexico City. On at least one of these trips, the Conners were joined by Timothy Leary, the ex-Harvard professor and soon-to-be leading proponent of psychedelic drugs. In 1996, Conner revised the film once again: he used an optical printer to expand its length from three to fourteen-and-a-half-minutes, and added a new soundtrack, Terry Riley's "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band," to create a more meditative, but no less hypnotizing, iteration of the mushroom hunt.
Looking for Mushrooms has generally received positive reviews.
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Looking for Mushrooms was released in 1996 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 2 reviews, giving Looking for Mushrooms (1996) an average rating of 70%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 100%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Looking for Mushrooms a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 70%, Looking for Mushrooms is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1996, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1996 with similar scores include films like Mission: Impossible, From Dusk Till Dawn and Muppet Treasure Island.
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