
Jack Kerouac
Senarist · 1922 – 1969 · Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet.
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Film5.7BelgeselVisionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher. Extensive archival footage, interviews, and home movies cover Allen Ginsberg's life, activism, and influence on American culture through the Beat era, the 1960s, and beyond.
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994 · 9 votes
Film9.2BelgeselTells the story of the wonderful and long-lasting friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs that gave birth to the Beat Generation movement.
Beat Generation
2014 · 2 votes
Film6.5BelgeselSon derece rekabetçi bir dünyada Adderall gibi ilaçlar öğrencilere, sporculara ve diğerlerine daha iyi ve daha hızlı olma fırsatı sunar. Peki ama bunun bedeli nedir?
Take Your Pills
2018 · 151 votes
- Film8.0Belgesel
A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA Obscenity Codes.
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003 · 1 votes
Film7.2Belgesel"One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur" examines Jack Kerouac's escape from post "On The Road" fame to his dream of an isolated retreat in a cabin at Big Sur where he searches for inner peace. His road comes full circle with this self-exploration, resulting in an alcohol-fueled paranoia and a plunge into madness.
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
2008 · 6 votes
- FilmBelgeselTarih
Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a fire-watcher on Washington state's Desolation Peak. After this stint he was never the same creative force again.
FilmBelgeselBased upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world.
Film6.1KomediDramBased on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's Bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy is a film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.
Pull My Daisy
1959 · 30 votes
Film10.0BelgeselTarihFrom Detroit to Manchester and Boston, countless American towns, streets, and rivers bear French names. But why? Notre rêve américain follows rapper Biz and globe-trotter Jean-Michel Dufaux as they trace the forgotten stories of French Canadians who helped shape American history. Through interviews, archival footage, and on-the-ground exploration, the film uncovers a legacy erased from mainstream narratives — and calls for a renewed connection to this cultural heritage.
Film1.0BelgeselWitness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary featuring Allan Ginsburg's final television interview as well as remarkable deathbed footage shot by underground cinema icon Jonas Mekas.
Film6.4The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.
Couch
1964 · 8 votes
Film5.8BelgeselDocumentary about Carolyn Cassady, her life and marriage to Neal Cassady, her relationship with Jack Kerouac and how she takes care of the literary legacy from both.
Love Always, Carolyn
2011 · 4 votes
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DiziBelgeselAn interview that Mr. Jack Kerouac gave in 1967 (just two (2) years before he passed away) in French (he was a Franco- American, and his first language, the one his family spoke at home in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he was raised, was French), on a TV show entitled "Le sel de la semaine" ("The Salt of the Week")