Beat Poetry Movies
- 2013
Big Sur
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Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
- 2022
Black Lodge
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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...
- 2008
Chicago 10
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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...
- 1959
Pull My Daisy
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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...
- 2005
Living on the Edge: The Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc
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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...
- 2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
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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.
- 2019
The Honey Bee
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Beat poem parable to black youth.
- 2008
A Line a Day Must Be Enough!
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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...
- 2004
Beat Angel
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Jack Kerouac returns to earth as an angel with the goal of changing the life of a struggling writer.
- 2014
William S. Burroughs Birthday Bash
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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...