Catch My Soul

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CATCH MY SOUL (SANTA FE SATAN); USA | 1974 | DCP | 96 min.

Director: Patrick McGoohan; Cast: Richie Havens, Lance LeGault, Season Hubley

The lone directorial effort from acclaimed actor McGoohan is a vivid yet hallucinatory realization of writer/producer Jack Good’s stage musical, itself an Americanized updating of Othello. Alternately told through rock songs and large snippets of Shakespeare’s dialogue, the story tells of a black itinerant evangelist (Woodstock sensation Havens, in his only dramatic role), whose marriage to a young woman in his flock (Hubley), sparks the jealousy of commune leader Iago (LeGault, in a commanding, scene-stealing performance). Unseen for decades, it was recently restored for contemporary audiences to discover.

In collaboration with the student-run WUD Film Committee, the Cinematheque brings back our Monday evening series of fun screenings that travel down the less-visited, sometimes more grungy avenues of contemporary pop cinema. The screenings take place at the Marquee Theater in Union South. This season’s offerings include new digital restorations of Brian De Palma’s Scarface, John Waters’ early effort, Multiple Maniacs, and the presumed lost rock musical Catch My Soul.