Mittwoch, 26 September
The Source
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THE SOURCE 2000
Directed by Chuck Workman
88 minutes
In English
This wild documentary traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting at Columbia University in 1944 straight through their crescendo in the 60s and into their deaths in the 70s, 80s and 90s. It's a montage of an era, focusing from time to time on the individual lives of Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg, and then stepping back to put those wild lives into a context. The Source uses some priceless footage of the seminal beat poets, along with wonderful archival material featuring Amiri Baraka, Lenny Bruce, Walter Cronkite, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Philip Glass, Billie Holiday, Bob Hope, Robert F. Kennedy, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, John Leguizamo, Norman Mailer, Steve Martin, Groucho Marx and Henry Rollins. This is by far the best documentary made about the visionary souls who would create the Beat generation.
Then, on top of all this priceless archival material we have three actors who have been influenced by the Beat movement, who read the original texts while acting out the personas of the original writers. The legendary Dennis Hopper recites Burroughs, John Turturro Ginsberg's Howl, and Johnny Depp dives deep into the role of Jack Kerouac. A classic documentary.
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