Jack Kerouac
Also Known As: Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, Jean-Louis Kérouac
Biography: Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet.
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: March 12, 1922
Deathday: October 21, 1969
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Gender: Male
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Pull My Daisy
Overview: Based 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-11
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Take Your Pills
Overview: In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-09
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No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
Overview: Witness 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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New York in the Fifties
Overview: New York in the Fifties is the story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expressions, free love, drinking, hot jazz, and radical politics. The film combines stunning archival footage of New York with interviews and footage of icons of the day-Kerouac, Ginsberg, Baldwin, Mailer, Basie, etc. Offering modern day perspective and reminiscences are writers, actors, and artists such as Joan Didion, Robert Redford, Nat Hentoff, Gay and Nan Talese, John Gregory Dunne, William F. Buckley, and Calvin Trillin-all part of the rich cultural and artistic scene of the time. Based on the best-selling book by Dan Wakefield, the film also traces Wakefield's restless rebellion in conformist Indianapolis, and his escape to New York with dreams of writin ga novel, falling in love, meeting like-minded souls and questioning the meaning of life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-16
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Love Always, Carolyn
Overview: Documentary 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-23
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One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
Overview: "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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-11
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Beat Generation
Overview: Tells 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-08
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The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Couch
Overview: The 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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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Il falso bugiardo
Overview: Based 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-07-03
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On the Road to Desolation
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-11
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