when it comes to film and drugs i am most comforted/moved by a movie while on the tail end of an acid trip. once the craziness is over but i'm still buzzing, a little frazzled and finally ready to settle in, i'll pop a benzo, smoke copious amounts of weed, and watch one of the following:
Festival (1967) - a documentary about the Newport Folk festival, all black and white footage compiled from 1963-1966. It features performances from Bob dylan, Howlin Wolf, Joan Baez, Son House, Johnny Cash and a bunch of lesser known local acts and festival goers performing from their tents. I'm not even crazy about folk music, but this movie is awesome and incredibly effective at immersing you in the wonder that the youth of that era felt discovering the roots of American music for the first time, just before the psychedelic era would take it to the world stage. Great performances and very heart-warming.
Sunshine (2007) - I don't know why more people didn't like this, it's one of my favorite sci-fi flicks, period. 50 years in the future the sun is dying and a manned mission, the Icarus I is sent to re-ignite it and save the planet. It disappears. The movie is about the Icarus II and its mission to the deliver a payload to the center of the sun. Apart from being visually stunning and bordering on horror as well as sci-fi in some moments, this film has a lot of philosophical themes that i found very poignant. yeah, it's a Hollywood sci-fi flick, but it's also a cool marriage of science and humanity.
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - I love Wes Anderson and I have 2 brothers, so this one hits close to home from me. It's classic, dark Wes Anderson humor, but the ending gets super heavy and always leaves me extremely contemplative.
Sorry to anyone expecting another breathtakingly banal "movies bout drugs to watch on drugs" bullshit list. I love film, and I use drugs, but there are countless other facets to my personality and a lifetime of experience that speaks to me from the screen. Give these flicks a chance, you'll probly dig em
