The Source
1999
· ⭐ 5.1 · Votes: 12
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers and the film chronicles their friendships their arrival into American consciousness their travels frequent parodies Kerouac's death and Ginsberg's politicization. Their movement connects with bebop John Cage's music abstract expressionism and living theater. In recent interviews Ginsberg Burroughs Kesey Ferlinghetti Mailer Jerry Garcia Tom Hayden Gary Snyder Ed Sanders and others measure the Beats' meaning and impact.
Genres
Documentary
History
Moods
CANYON
