Something happened in the summer after the Summer of Love. The feel-good hippie spirit celebrated in the media in 1967 had, by 1968, begun to give way to a more politically confrontational counterculture. Filmed in the interval between the protests at the Pentagon and the demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Last Summer Won't Happen is a sympathetic but not uncritical document of the antiwar movement on New York's Lower East Side, capturing the movement's internal pressures and contradictions. It includes portraits of such key players as Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, editor Paul Krassner, folksinger Phil Ochs, and anarchist Tom “Osha” Neumann, and a soundtrack by Country Joe and the Fish and Procol Harum. A Newsweek review called it “a fascinating film, troubling and troubled, and its jumble of styles encompasses the lyrical, pseudo-dramatic, didactic, and auto-critical. . . . It is born of an uncertainty about new ways of organizing life and art.” The film was originally released in 1968 in an 80-minute version; PFA has preserved the 1973 director's cut.