Chappaqua (film)

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This article is about the film; for the hamlet, see Chappaqua, New York.
Chappaqua
Directed by Conrad Rooks
Written by Conrad Rooks
Starring Conrad Rooks
Release date(s) 82 mins
Running time 5 November 1967 (USA)
Country USA
Language English
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Chappaqua is a 1966 cult film written, directed by and starring Conrad Rooks. It is based on Rooks' experiences with drug addiction. It includes cameo appearances by a host of famous names of the 1960s: author William S. Burroughs, guru Swami Satchidananda, beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Moondog, and Ravi Shankar, who co-wrote the score with Philip Glass. Rooks had commissioned jazz artist Ornette Coleman to compose music for the film, but his score, which has become known as the Chappaqua Suite was ultimately not used. Coleman too makes a cameo appearance in the film.

The film briefly depicts its namesake, Chappaqua, New York, a sleepy hamlet in Westchester County, in a few minutes of wintry panoramas. The hamlet is an overt symbol of drug-free, suburban childhood innocence, and is also one of the film's many nods to Native American culture. The northern Westchester area had been heavily inhabited by Native Americans; the word chappaqua itself derives from the Algonquin word for 'running water'.

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Preceded by
Simon of the Desert, I Am Twenty
and Modiga Mindre Män		 Special Jury Prize, Venice
1966
tied with Yesterday Girl		 Succeeded by
La Cina è vicina and La Chinoise
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