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Watch: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Smile’
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Christopher Campbell
Nov 14, 2013
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Film No 5 1968 by Yoko Ono

Today is the 45th anniversary of the premiere of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Film №5, which has since come to be known as Smile. The 52-minute experimental work debuted at the Chicago Film Festival, where apparently half of the audience walked out by the 30-minute point (funny given Ono originally wanted the film to be 5 hours long). Ono is often credite…

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