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Books About Beat Cinema
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"Mad To Be Saved: The Beats, The '50s & Film" [1998] by David Sterritt SIU Press 9¼x6¼ pb [9/98] for $22.40 |
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"Naked Lens: Beat Cinema" [1997] by Jack Sargeant 'a stunning piece of scholarship' Creation Books 9.6x6.6 pb [5/2002] for $13.97 Creation Publng hardcover [6/97] out of print/used |
Movies About The Beats
"Barfly" [Cannon/Zoetrope Dec 1987]
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Directed by Barbet Schroeder; script by beat poet Charles Bukowski; starring Mickey Rourke & Faye Dunaway
Warner color VHS [9/2002] for $14.95 Warner widescreen DVD [9/2002] for $17.38 full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
"Beat" [video release April 2000]
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An account of the events in Mexico in 1951 between Bill Burroughs, his wife Joan Vollmer, Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr and others that resulted in the accidental (maybe) shooting death of Joan Written & directed by Gary Walkow; starring Kiefer Sutherland, Courtney Love, Norman Reedus, Ron Livingston & Daniel Martínez
Lions Gate widescreen DVD [10/2002] for $22.49 full credits from IMDb |
"Beat Angel: The Spirit of Kerouac" [indep 2006]
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Co-produced, co-written & directed by Randy Allred; starring: Vincent Balestri, Frank Tabbita, Lisa Niemi & Amy Humphrey
self-published color DVD [10/2006] for $24.95 full credits from IMDb • official filmsite |
"The Beat Experience" CD-ROM [1996]
Presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art
Voyager book & CD-ROM [3/96] for $39.95
"The Beat Generation" [1959]
hokey exploitation flick produced by Albert Zugsmith, with cameos by
Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong, 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom & Vampira; filmed in Cinemascope
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb
"The Beat Generation: An American Dream"
[1987 documentary]
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Produced & directed by Janet Forman; hosted by Steve Allen
Fox Lorber VHS [9/98] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb |
"Beat Girl" [1961]
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British B-movie melodrama, partly filmed among the beatnik 'caves' of London.
Co-written & directed by Edmond T. Gréville; co-written by Dail Ambler; starring Gillian Hills, Noëlle Adam, Adam Faith, Shirley Anne Field, Nigel Green, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee & Carol White Red Distrbn widescreen b&w DVD [10/2003] for $17.97 Victory Multimedia b&w VHS [3/92] for $9.49 Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $18.95 full credits at IMDb |
"Beat Poets Box Set" [1999]
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Performances by Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Corso, Burroughs, McClure & Manzarek
Mystic Fire color VHS [3/99] 5 tapes out of stock/used not listed at IMDb |
"The Beatniks" [1960]
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Co-written & directed by Paul Frees
Gotham Disrtbn DVD [1/2004] for $6.98 Englewood b&w VHS [11/98] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb |
"Book of The Blues" [2001 short]
Adapted {from "San Francisco Blues"} & directed by Lochlan Shelfer
video not available; credits at IMDb
"Bukowski At Bellevue" [1995]
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Recently-discovered student documentary footage of Hank Bukowski's 1970 performance/reading at Bellevue Community College in Washington State.
Screen Edge b&w DVD [7/2004] for $17.99 credits at IMDb |
"Bukowski: Born Into This"
[Magnolia May 2004]
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Magnolia color DVD [4/2006] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb • distributor's page 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
"Couch" [1964]
Directed by Andy Warhol; performances by Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac,
Gerard Malanga, Taylor Mead, Billy Name & Ondine; sparse info at IMDb
"Crazy Love" [Belgium 1987]
aka "L'Amour Est un Chien de l'Enfer" or 'Love Is A Dog From Hell'
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Directed & co-written by Dominique Deruddere; based on several stories by Charles Bukowski; starring Josse De Pauw & Geert Hunaerts
W.E.A. color DVD [10/2004] for $17.96 full credits from IMDb |
"Factotum" [Norway 2005, USA Aug 2006]
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Produced, co-written & directed by Bent Hamer of Norway; adapted from Charles Bukowski's novel; starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens, Marisa Tomei, Didier Flamand, Adrienne Shelley & Karen Young
IFCfilm color DVD [12/2006] for $21.99 full credits from IMDb; official movie websites: U.S.A. & U.K. |
"Finding Jack Kerouac" [indep 2002]
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Written & directed by Jeff Lyon; starring Randall Sims, Christopher Lapish & Noelle Manuel
order DVD [10/2005] via FilmBaby for $15.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie website |
"Heart Beat" [Orion 1980]
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Carolyn Cassady's memoir about her life with Jack Kerouac & Neal Cassady; directed by John Byrum; starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek & John Heard
Warner color VHS [1/93] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb "Heart Beat: My Life With Jack & Neal" [1976] by Carolyn Cassady Creative Arts pb [7/76] out of print/used |
"I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous: Jack Kerouac & His Legacy"
[year unknown]
video not available; credits from IMDb
"Jack Kerouac's America" [1984]
Produced & directed by John Antonelli
"Jack Kerouac's Road: A Franco-American Odyssey" [1988]
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Produced by the National Film Board of Canada
Kultur Video color VHS [7/99] for $19.95 full credits from IMDb |
"Kerouac, The Movie" [1984]
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Produced, co-written & directed by John Antonelli
Mystic Fire b&w/color VHS [9/98] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
"Last Time I Committed Suicide"
[Kushner-Locke June 1997]
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Based on a letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac
Written & directed by Stephen T. Kay; starring Thomas Jane, Claire Forlani, Gretchen Mol & Keanu Reeves Universal color VHS [2000] out of stock/used Blue Note soundtrack CD [7/97] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
"The Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg"
[Feb 1994; re-release Aug 2004]
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Documentary about beat poet Allen Ginsberg directed by Jerry Aronson; won IDA Award 1993
institutional purchase of 2-disk DVD First Run Features color VHS [4/99] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • official movie site |
"Lowell Blues: The Words of Jack Kerouac"
[30-min. 2003 docufilm]
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by Henry Ferrini
Henry Ferrini website purchase video by mail for $35 |
"Neal Cassady" [independent 2008?] 
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Written & directed by Noah Buschel; starring Tate Donovan {as Neal Cassady}, Glenn Fitzgerald {as Kerouac}, Chris Bauer {as Ken Kesey}, Amy Ryan, Yehuda Duenyas {as Allen Ginsberg}, Hanna Hall, Josh Hamilton, Brendan Sexton III, Liza Weil, Merritt Wever, Stephen Adly Guirgis & Paz de la Huerta
video/DVD not yet available; full credits at IMDb |
"On The Road" project
[American Zoetrope/United Artists for release in 2009?]
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola; to be directed by Walter Salles;
latest status from IMDb
"On The Road with Jack Kerouac" [1990]
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also known as "Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats"; produced & directed by John Antonelli
Goldhil Media color DVD [4/2003] for $22.46 Goldhil Media color VHS [11/2001] for $19.95 Active Home Video VHS [6/90] out of stock/used not listed at IMDb |
"One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur"
[indep release 2008?]
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A documentary look at the summer of 1960, when Jack Kerouac retreated to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's remote cabin in the wilds of Big Sur, a time that formed the basis for Kerouac's 1962 novel "Big Sur".
Co-produced & directed by Curt Worden; featuring Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, David Amram, Sterling Lord, Michael McClure, Carolyn Cassady, John Allen Cassady, Jami Cassady, Donal Logue, Tom Waits, Sam Shepard, Robert Hunter, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, John Ventimiglia, S.E. Hinton, Aram Saroyan, Amber Tamblyn, Erik Bauersfeld, Dar Williams, Diamond Dave Whitaker, Benjamin Gibbard, Jay Farrar, Sage Francis, Brenda Knight, Jack Hirschman, Dana Godbe, Herbert Gold, John Tytell, Bill Morgan & Paul Marion
video/DVD not yet available; not listed at IMDb; official movie site |
"Poetry In Motion" [Canada Sept 1982]
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Directed by Ron Mann; participants include Burroughs, Bukowski, Ginsberg, McClure, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits & Anne Waldman
Public Media color DVD [7/2002] for $17.96 full credits from IMDb |
"Pull My Daisy" [1958]
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Written by Jack Kerouac; directed by Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie Narration by Jack Kerouac, starring Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso & Peter Orlovsky VHS video available for $39.95 online from Fog City full credits from IMDb |
"The Source" [1999 P.B.S. documentary]
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Written, produced & directed by Chuck Workman; starring Johnny Depp [as Kerouac], John Turturro [as Ginsberg] & Dennis Hopper [as Burroughs]
Fox Lorber DVD [7/2000] for $21.49 Fox Lorber VHS [5/2000] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb |
"The Subterraneans" [M.G.M. June 1960]
Directed by Ranald MacDougall; based on the Kerouac novel; starring George Peppard
video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
"Tales of Ordinary Madness"
[Italy 1981; dubbed US release 1983]
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Image Ent. widescreen color DVD [2/99] out of stock/used Image Ent. widescreen color VHS [2/99] out of stock/used Warner color VHS [2/99] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb "Tales of Ordinary Madness" [stories 1984] by beat poet Charles Bukowski; City Lights Books 8x5¼ pb [1/84] for $9.72 |
"West Coast: Beat & Beyond"
[60-minute documentary 1984]
Produced & directed by Chris Felver; narrated by Allen Ginsberg
video/DVD not available; no info at IMDb
"What Happened To Kerouac?"
[1985 documentary]
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Initial concept by Malcolm Hart; co-produced & co-directed by Lewis MacAdams, co-directed by Richard Lerner
Sony b&w/color DVD [8/2003] for $13.99 Winstar VHS [9/98] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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