Daytime Revolution

It's a lovely portrait of an artist gone far too young.

The movie’s quiet star is Douglas himself... Douglas’s kindness and intellectual curiosity are more compelling than any political argument.

This recap of a unique and deeply sincere bid to demystify utopian ideals for the conservative masses using the platform of popular television offers a fascinating glimpse into a very different period in this country’s past.

What IS remarkable, and kind of awesome, is that these confabs were beamed directly into the living rooms of some 40 million Americans via a rather unlikely platform...

Erik Nelson takes us back over fifty years, beginning with a montage of newsreel footage...to remind us that a divided America was once being led by a corrupt president, while outspoken political idealists offered a different perspective.

This was really fascinating... It really humanized John and Yoko.

Daytime Revolution promises to show us a radical week when Lennon and Yoko take over a talk show. But Gil Scott-Heron was right: the revolution will not be televised.



Contemporary interviews offer perspective as Daytime Revolution cements its status as a cultural curio. And, yes, it's moving to watch John, who was 31 at the time, sing Imagination.

As fascinating and enjoyable as the talk show footage is to watch today as what was deemed as radical politics back then, the film fails to then provide that modern context which leaves the film as visitation rather than an examination.

Daytime Revolution does work as a straightforward, if not particularly deep, examination of a moment in time when the idea of opposite sides of the political spectrum could actually come together even if only for a few hours (minus time for commercials).