Country: USA
Year: 1998
Duration: 88'
The story of the beat generation, starting when Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs met in the New York of the 1940's, a meeting which proved to be the catalyst of a literary movement destined to influence fifty years of American counter-culture. Through a series of never-before-released interviews, the movie describes the lives of beatnik artists (poets, painters, jazz musicians) during the '50s and the lives of hippies and politically-involved students during the '60s and early '70s. The documentary analyzes the influence that the ideas of those years had on the feminist and gay rights movements, and how much of the beat spirit is still to be found in the world of art, pop culture and contemporary political movements.
Biography
film director
Chuck Workman
Chuck Workman was born in Philadelphia. Author, editing specialist and director, he won an Oscar in 1987 for his short film Precious Images. Besides having directed documentaries and fiction movies, he has also made videos and commercials. He is a former president of the International Documentary Association.
FILMOGRAFIA
With Respect to Mr. Lester (doc., 1969), The Money (1976), The Making of the Deep (doc., 1978), Cuba Crossing (1979), The Director and the Image (doc., 1979), Stoogemania (doc., 1984), Protocol (co-regia con Herbert Ross, 1984), The Game (cm, 1984), Precious Images (cm, 1987), Pieces of Silver (cm, 1987), Words (cm, 1988), The Best Snow in Town (cm, 1988), And the Winner Is (doc., 1988), The Keeper of the Light (doc., 1989), Superstar: the Life and Times of Andy Warhol (doc., 1989), Not Us (cm, 1993), That Good Night (cm, 1995), The First 100 Years: a Celebration of American Movies (doc., 1996), The Source (doc., 1998).
Cast
& Credits
Director, screenplay and editor: Chuck Workman.
Director of photography: Nancy Schreiber, Tom Hurwitz, Don Lenzer, Andrew Dintenfass.
Music: Philip Glass, David Amram.
Cast: John Turturro, Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper.
Nuove interviste: Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Ken Kesey, Gregory Corso, Ed Sanders, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Ray Manzarek, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Philip Glass, David Amram.
Interviste e materiale d'archivio: Jack Kerouac, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, Shirley Clark, Diane di Prima, Robert Motherwell, Norman Mailer, Terry Southern, Neal Cassady.
Producer: Chuck Workman.
Production company: Calliope Films Inc., 195 S. Beverly Hills Drive, Suite 409, CA 90212, USA, tel. +1-310-2710964, fax +1-310-2710793.
Co-production: Beat Productions.
Foreign sales agent: JET Media, 32040 Canterhill, Westlake, CA 91361, USA, tel. +1-818-7071080, fax +1-818-7071114.
Director of photography: Nancy Schreiber, Tom Hurwitz, Don Lenzer, Andrew Dintenfass.
Music: Philip Glass, David Amram.
Cast: John Turturro, Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper.
Nuove interviste: Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Ken Kesey, Gregory Corso, Ed Sanders, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Ray Manzarek, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Philip Glass, David Amram.
Interviste e materiale d'archivio: Jack Kerouac, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, Shirley Clark, Diane di Prima, Robert Motherwell, Norman Mailer, Terry Southern, Neal Cassady.
Producer: Chuck Workman.
Production company: Calliope Films Inc., 195 S. Beverly Hills Drive, Suite 409, CA 90212, USA, tel. +1-310-2710964, fax +1-310-2710793.
Co-production: Beat Productions.
Foreign sales agent: JET Media, 32040 Canterhill, Westlake, CA 91361, USA, tel. +1-818-7071080, fax +1-818-7071114.