If nothing else, Chappaqua is an interesting historical curio. A 1966 film directed and starring Conrad Rooks as a young man undergoing treatment for alcoholism and other addictions, Chappaqua boasts cameos by Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Ornette Coleman and Ravi Shankar (who also scored the film). Sadly, even to the historically minded, it's also pretty near unwatchable, consisting mostly of hallucinatory sequences strung together with bits of narrative thrown in to keep people from forgetting that there's a story going on somewhere. Of course, the non-narrative form would be fine if Chappaqua didn't look like a compilation of post-Godard student-film cliches. A sequence involving Burroughs and what looks like Herve Villechaize getting gunned down gangland style would tell you all you needed to know, if that bit weren't mildly entertaining. More typical are scenes of Rooks being chased around Paris by a bald manservant while freaking out '60s-style, an activity that at one point involves flashes of a white-robe-clad Druid doing a jig in the middle of Stonehenge. The scenes of Rooks writhing in withdrawal agony may not deter anyone from drugs, but the surrounding scenes of addled, artsy pretentiousness just might.