
Jim Carroll
Senarist · 1949 – 2009 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, actor and punk musician. He was the author of “The Basketball Diaries,” a cult-classic memoir of his drug-fueled misadventures as a teenager in the 1960s. Then he became a celebrated downtown poet; and then in 1980, the star of his own hit rock band. With the help of the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, Carroll signed a record deal and in 1980 the band released its first album, "Catholic Boy. He appeared in two feature films and a couple of documentaries.
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Film7.4DramSuçJim, lise basketbol takımının başarılı oyuncularından biridir. Milli takımda oynama ve bir basketbol yıldızı olma hayalleri, uyuşturucu ile tanışınca yerini New York sokaklarının acı gerçeklerine bırakır. Annesi tarafından evden atılması ile birlikte para bulup hayatta kalabilmek için her türlü suçu işlemekten çekinmeyen bir insana dönüşür Jim. Suç, sefalet, çarpık ilişkiler ve ölüm gibi kötü tecrübelerle dolu bir yaşamla karşı karşıya kalmıştır. Ta ki kendini kurtaracak şeyi, günlük tutmayı keşfedene kadar...
Film6.0DramAksiyonThe new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie.
Tuff Turf
1985 · 138 votes
Film5.0Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. Also expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired social change.
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
1989 · 1 votes
Film5.0BelgeselA look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Naked Lunch" to publication.
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008 · 6 votes
Film10.0DramHupar wakes up from a 20-year coma. Disoriented, he soon meets Arete, a young poet and Sophis, a TV newswoman. Together, the three team up to expose corporate crime in a crumbling city scape of the very near future.
Listen to the City
1984 · 1 votes
Film8.0BelgeselMore than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are the children of Walt Whitman and of Charles Olson, incantatory and oratorical, radical, sometimes incorporating contemporary political imagery. Black Mountain poets, the Beats, minimalists like John Cage, the wordless Four Horsemen, Tom Waits, and others capture aspects of poets as troubadours.
Poetry in Motion
1982 · 3 votes
Film6.5MüzikBelgeselLou Reed was wise to chronicle a concert by his early-'80s band, featuring lead guitarist Robert Quine and bassist Fernando Saunders. Reed had used them on his trilogy of strong albums -- The Blue Mask, Legendary Hearts, and New Sensations -- released between 1982 and 1984. This 52-minute video, shot at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ, in 1984, is a straightforward, no-frills live show. Reed, in black T-shirt and black leather pants, stands on-stage before a cityscape background and makes his way through a set that features both a selection of Velvet Underground songs, and his sole hit single, "Walk on the Wild Side," plus highlights from his three recent albums, notably such songs as "I Love You Suzanne." As such, the video makes a good Lou Reed career sampler.
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby Live in Jersey
1992 · 1 votes
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Dizi6.0KomediFridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982.
Fridays
1980 · 9 votes