Movies: Beat poetry
- 2013
Big Sur (2013)
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Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name....
- 2022
Black Lodge (2022)
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Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest moment in his life, he mines fractured and repressed memories for a way out. A woman is at the cente...
- 1959
Pull My Daisy (1959)
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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 par...
- 2005
Living on the Edge: The Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc (2005)
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A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of taboo. In so doing, he helped propel Acadia into the modern era....
- 2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri (2024)
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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....
- 2004
Beat Angel (2004)
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Jack Kerouac returns to earth as an angel with the goal of changing the life of a struggling writer....
- 2008
A Line a Day Must Be Enough! (2008)
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In a film bursting with lyrics, pictures, and music the director shows us a way into the peculiar universe of Tóroddur, and the otherwise not very talkative artist gives us a glimpse of his thoughts on art, God, life and death....
- 2014
William S. Burroughs Birthday Bash (2014)
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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 vi...
- 2019
The Honey Bee (2019)
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Beat poem parable to black youth....