Big Sur

Nov 1, 2013

1h 40m

★ 4.6

Some souls never stop searching.

Overview

Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

3311 Productions

Troy Entertainment

Big Sur Trailers

Cast

Jack Kerouac

Jean-Marc Barr

Neal Cassady

Josh Lucas

Billie

Kate Bosworth

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Anthony Edwards

Philip Whalen

Henry Thomas

Lew Welch / Dave Wain

Patrick Fischler

Carolyn Cassady

Radha Mitchell

Lenora

Stana Katic

Michael McClure

Balthazar Getty

Alyson

Nora Kirkpatrick

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writer with Québec roots who became one of the most important spokesmen for his generation. Intercut with archival footage, photographs and interviews, this film takes apart the heroic myth and even returns to the childhood of the author whose life and work contributed greatly to the cultural, sexual and social revolution of the 1960s.

7.0

Naked Lunch

Dec 27, 1991

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

0.0

Beat Angel

Apr 5, 2004

Jack Kerouac returns to earth as an angel with the goal of changing the life of a struggling writer.

6.0

Pull My Daisy

Nov 11, 1959

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.

5.5

Heart Beat

Apr 25, 1980

An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.

7.0

Kill Your Darlings

Oct 16, 2013

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

4.8

The Subterraneans

Jun 23, 1960

A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

6.3

Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats

Sep 6, 1985

Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William S. Burroughs. The film also employs dramatic recreations of Kerouac's life beginning with his early childhood.

0.0

William S. Burroughs Birthday Bash

Nov 1, 2014

To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Humanities Festival brings together a motley crew of poets, writers, and musicians. William Seward Burroughs (1914 - 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs's needs took him across the United States, down into Mexico, to Europe and beyond. On his travels, he meets up with various members of the underground drug and "outcast" cultures.

7.5

Fernanda Pivano: A Farewell to Beat

Oct 22, 2001

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0.0

Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri

Feb 16, 2024

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

5.2

The Beat Generation

Jul 3, 1959

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

0.0

Miceniks

Jan 1, 1961

Beatnik mice are chased by a square cat.

5.8

Chicago 10

Feb 29, 2008

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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6.5

Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

Oct 1, 1979

After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City. Associated through mutual friendships, these cultural dissidents looked for new ways and means to express themselves. Soon their writings found an audience and the American media took notice, dubbing them the Beat Generation. Members of this group included writers Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. a trinity that would ultimately influence the works of others during that era, including the "hippie" movement of the '60s. In this 55-minute video narrated by Allen Ginsberg, members of the Beat Generation (including the aforementioned Burroughs, Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovsky, Amiri Baraka, Diane Di Prima, and Timothy Leary) are reunited at Naropa University in Boulder, CO during the late 1970's to share their works and influence a new generation of young American bohemians.

7.0

Burroughs: The Movie

Feb 10, 1984

An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, and William Burroughs Jr.

9.2

Beat Generation

Feb 8, 2014

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.

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0.0

The Honey Bee

May 26, 2019

Beat poem parable to black youth.

7.2

Witchcraft Through the Ages

Jan 3, 1968

A seventy-six-minute version of Häxan, re-edited and re-released in the United States by Metro Pictures Corporation in 1968. It is narrated by author William S. Burroughs, with a jazz score and soundtrack featuring violinist Jean-Luc Ponty.

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0.0

Diane di Prima: Dipping In

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Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was a poet, writer, publisher and playwright whose work has been associated with the Beat movement. Born and raised in New York City, she associated with poets such as Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac and Frank O’Hara, co-editing The Floating Bear magazine with Baraka in the 60s and co-founding the Poets Press and the New York Poets Theatre. Throughout her life in New York and later out West, both her sense of anarchic limitlessness and her zeal for collaboration guided her work.