“I just miss Robbie, period,” says Martin Scorsese, talking about a professional and personal relationship with Robbie Robertson that lasted 47 years. “The friendship, the work, the tales he told — all of it.”
Although the filmmaker has already declared his intentions to shoot a new project in 2024 — an adaptation of “A Life of Jesus” by the late Japanese author Shūsaku Endō — Scorsese still has his head very much in his darkly poetic “Killers of the Flower Moon” and the late, great musical collaborator and friend who composed its haunting score.
“It meant a lot to both of us that we did this project together,” Scorsese told Variety on Friday, noting that “’Killers of the Flower Moon’ was a kind of culmination” of their entire working relationship.
The director’s epic Western crime drama chronicling the true story of the reign of terror waged against the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma starring Leonardo DiCaprio,...
Although the filmmaker has already declared his intentions to shoot a new project in 2024 — an adaptation of “A Life of Jesus” by the late Japanese author Shūsaku Endō — Scorsese still has his head very much in his darkly poetic “Killers of the Flower Moon” and the late, great musical collaborator and friend who composed its haunting score.
“It meant a lot to both of us that we did this project together,” Scorsese told Variety on Friday, noting that “’Killers of the Flower Moon’ was a kind of culmination” of their entire working relationship.
The director’s epic Western crime drama chronicling the true story of the reign of terror waged against the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma starring Leonardo DiCaprio,...
- 1/16/2024
- by A.D. Amorosi
- Variety Film + TV
Artist Jim Shaw’s studio is a dream factory. It’s where images and ideas combine in unnatural and often surreal ways, conjuring visual puns like the smiling visage of Esther Williams superimposed with an image of her lover, actor Jeff Chandler, wearing a gown. A matching piece shows Chandler with a hermaphroditic image of Williams in the pose of Botticelli’s Venus de Milo. Both pieces were inspired by rumors that Williams ended their affair upon learning Chandler was a transvestite.
“I just kind of ended up working with elements of Hollywood,” Shaw says of his new show, Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable, at Gagosian Beverly Hills from Jan. 12 through Feb. 25. “I’ve been interested in sort of the history, along with politics, of LSD and psychedelics. I came across that Esther Williams had taken LSD, and that led me to reading her autobiography. When she finally took LSD,...
“I just kind of ended up working with elements of Hollywood,” Shaw says of his new show, Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable, at Gagosian Beverly Hills from Jan. 12 through Feb. 25. “I’ve been interested in sort of the history, along with politics, of LSD and psychedelics. I came across that Esther Williams had taken LSD, and that led me to reading her autobiography. When she finally took LSD,...
- 1/16/2023
- by Jordan Riefe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first recorded reading of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl,” which was lost for decades, will be finally be released on April 2nd, 2021.
Ginsberg’s debut public reading of one of the greatest works of American literature occurred at San Francisco’s Six Gallery in October 1955, with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in attendance. It was not recorded, though, leading many to claim that the first recorded reading took place in Berkeley, California, the following year.
However, a newly discovered recording proves otherwise. Prior to Ginsberg’s Berkeley performance,...
Ginsberg’s debut public reading of one of the greatest works of American literature occurred at San Francisco’s Six Gallery in October 1955, with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in attendance. It was not recorded, though, leading many to claim that the first recorded reading took place in Berkeley, California, the following year.
However, a newly discovered recording proves otherwise. Prior to Ginsberg’s Berkeley performance,...
- 1/12/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
American writer and unlikely Beat icon who married Jack Kerouac's wild road companion Neal Cassady
In her book Off the Road (1990), Carolyn Cassady, who has died aged 90, charted her extraordinary life with the Beat writers Neal Cassady, her husband, and Jack Kerouac, her lover. Carolyn was an unlikely, and in many ways an unwilling, Beat icon herself. When she met Neal in Colorado in 1947, Carolyn was a student of theatre design at the University of Denver, having attended a smart east coast ladies' college; he was a car thief, an energetic seducer of women and occasionally men, and possessed of a restless, manic energy that had already bewitched Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He also had a teenage bride, LuAnne Henderson. Soon after they had begun their relationship, Carolyn crept into Neal's flat one morning to give him a surprise, only to find him asleep with LuAnne on one side and Ginsberg on the other.
In her book Off the Road (1990), Carolyn Cassady, who has died aged 90, charted her extraordinary life with the Beat writers Neal Cassady, her husband, and Jack Kerouac, her lover. Carolyn was an unlikely, and in many ways an unwilling, Beat icon herself. When she met Neal in Colorado in 1947, Carolyn was a student of theatre design at the University of Denver, having attended a smart east coast ladies' college; he was a car thief, an energetic seducer of women and occasionally men, and possessed of a restless, manic energy that had already bewitched Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He also had a teenage bride, LuAnne Henderson. Soon after they had begun their relationship, Carolyn crept into Neal's flat one morning to give him a surprise, only to find him asleep with LuAnne on one side and Ginsberg on the other.
- 9/23/2013
- by James Campbell
- The Guardian - Film News
Here’s yet another upside to the Akira shutdown (beyond the immediate benefit of the project hopefully just not getting made in its current, bizarrely tone-deaf state) – its star Garrett Hedlund is negotiating for a role in a film that actually sounds somewhat suitable for him. Imagine that! Variety reports that, with Hedlund’s schedule currently much more open post-Akira-shutdown-gate, he’s negotiating for a role in the Coen Brothers‘ next film, Inside Llewyn Davis. The film is already set to star Oscar Isaac in the titular role, and follows the character of Davis, a 60s folk singer based on Dave Van Ronk. While Hedlund’s role is not yet specified, the film is set during the 1960s in New York’s Greenwich Village and will likely be populated with a number of characters that, like Isaac’s, will be based on famous performers. While Hedlund might have underwhelmed in Tron: Legacy, his...
- 1/10/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
On the Road's Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac "I'm praying that you'll buy On the Road and make a movie of it. Don't worry about structure. I know how to compress and re-arrange the plot to give it perfectly acceptable movie-type structure: making it into an all-inclusive trip instead of several voyages coast-to-coast in the book…" That's from a 1957 letter from Florida resident Jack Kerouac to Marlon Brando (photo), which was recently sold for $33,600 at a Christie's auction. Brando was then a box-office friendly and critically respected Oscar winner following star vehicles such as On the Waterfront (critical respect) and The Teahouse of the August Moon (box-office clout). In fact, in '57 Brando was starring in Joshua Logan's Sayonara, a mammoth box-office hit — and his last major success until The Godfather fifteen years later. Kerouac, sounding like a starstruck (and ambitious) fan, explains his invitation in the letter: "I...
- 1/8/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Kristen Stewart as Mary Lou, On the Road Producer Charle Gillibert has announced the following, via Twitter: "Am happy to share with you : Otr french release the 23rd of may, more to come." Otr? That's On the Road, directed by Walter Salles, and starring Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, and Garrett Hedlund. As for the May 23 released date in France, does that mean n the Road will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival? Possibly. Cannes 2012 runs from May 16-27. Based on Jack Kerouac's classic novel, On the Road follows New York-based writer Sal Paradise (Riley); rebel Dean Moriarty (Hedlund); and Dean's girl, Mary Lou (Stewart), as they go on a road trip following the death of Sal's father. Sal is based on Kerouac himself; Dean, on Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady; and Mary Lou on Cassady's first wife, LuAnne Henderson. Walter Salles directed the Brazilian drama Central Station (1998), which...
- 1/4/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Alex Gibney has directed some of the most acclaimed documentaries of the last decade - among them Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, and Taxi to the Dark Side, which won him an Academy Award. An incredibly prolific documentarian, Gibney now turns his attention to Magic Trip, a collaboration with Alison Ellwood, his editor on Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Here Ellwood handles editing, producing and co-writing duties while Stanley Tucci provides his professional cadence as the narrator/interviewer. Magic Trip covers a 1964 roadtrip undertaken by Ken Kesey, best known as the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Joining Kesey are an group of recreational drug users (and much more) who would soon be called the Merry Pranksters. Neal Cassady, Kerouac's inspiration for Dean Moriarty,...
- 11/30/2011
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
In 1964, under the influence of Jack Kerouac's On the Road and various substances including LSD, Ken Kesey and his self-styled Merry Pranksters set out from California to drive to New York in a battered 1939 school bus they'd painted in psychedelic colours. Kesey, an all-American boy, happily married family man and former college football star from Oregon, had written the fashionably subversive bestseller One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but wanted to exchange literature for some kind of direct action of a pacific kind. The Pranksters' destination was the World's Fair on Long Island, but their object was to advertise a new lifestyle that would change and liberate America.
The bus was driven by Neal Cassady, the histrionic model for Kerouac's Dean Moriarty, and the classic account of the journey and the one for which it will be remembered is Tom Wolfe's first full-length exercise in what was then called the new journalism,...
The bus was driven by Neal Cassady, the histrionic model for Kerouac's Dean Moriarty, and the classic account of the journey and the one for which it will be remembered is Tom Wolfe's first full-length exercise in what was then called the new journalism,...
- 11/20/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Rediscovered footage of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters makes for an interesting documentary about a key moment in the history of the counter-culture
The prehistory of psychedelia gets an interesting, if minor footnote with this documentary co-directed by Alex Gibney – who made Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. In 1964, bestselling writer and novelist Ken Kesey became a counter-cultural legend for a chaotic road trip he took across the United States in a rickety school bus, taking with him a bunch of "Merry Pranksters". They were keen on smoking dope and dropping acid and, among the group (and very dangerously at the wheel), was the jabberingly loquacious Neal Cassady, already immortalised in Kerouac's On the Road. The journey was recorded in a book by Tom Wolfe, but Kesey also shot hours and hours of amateur cine film – forgotten for decades – which this documentary reconstructs and edits into shape. It's an...
The prehistory of psychedelia gets an interesting, if minor footnote with this documentary co-directed by Alex Gibney – who made Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. In 1964, bestselling writer and novelist Ken Kesey became a counter-cultural legend for a chaotic road trip he took across the United States in a rickety school bus, taking with him a bunch of "Merry Pranksters". They were keen on smoking dope and dropping acid and, among the group (and very dangerously at the wheel), was the jabberingly loquacious Neal Cassady, already immortalised in Kerouac's On the Road. The journey was recorded in a book by Tom Wolfe, but Kesey also shot hours and hours of amateur cine film – forgotten for decades – which this documentary reconstructs and edits into shape. It's an...
- 11/18/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Magic Trip, the latest film from Oscar winning documentary maker Alex Gibney (Taxi To The Dark Side, Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Hunter S Thompson, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room), comes to cinemas on 18 November 2011. The film tells the story of Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady and the Merry Prankster’ LSD-fuelled across the USA in the early 1960s. To mark its release we have a bundle of excellent documentaries on DVD to give away, including Gibney’s Gonzo, New York Doll and Festival Express.
In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.
In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.
- 11/17/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★★★☆ In 1964, Ken Kesey - author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - set off on a LSD-fuelled road trip to the New York World's Fair. He was joined by 'The Merry Band of Pranksters' a renegade group of counter-culture truth-seekers including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalised in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, but the 16mm footage was never collated until now, with the release of Alex Gibney's Magic Trip (2011).
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- 11/17/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
If you enjoy documentaries, chances are you've seen and enjoyed Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room and Taxi To The Dark Side. Now he's tackling a rather kooler subject with Magic Trip, the story of Ken Kesey's odyssey across America in 1964.Kesey, as many of you will know, went on to write One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, but before that he joined the "Merry Band of Pranksters" and went on an LSD-fuelled cross-country trip (in every sense of the word). One of those accompanying him was Neal Cassady, the inspiration for Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's hugely influential On The Road, and the whole thing already featured in Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Now Gibney's been given access to Kesey's footage of the journey by his family and, narrated by Stanley Tucci and some of those involved, has assembled it into...
- 10/25/2011
- EmpireOnline
Chicago – Behind the scenes at the 2011 Chicago International Film Festival is a corp of programmers who determine what films, documentaries and special events will take place during the run of the festival. Their views and passions are the basis for the success of the two week film extravaganza.
HollywoodChicago.com spoke to three of the programmers – Penny Barlett on short films, Lee Ferdinand of documentaries and Rebecca Fons, who directs the education program.
Lee Ferdinand and Penny Barlett of the Chicago International Film Festival
Photo credit: Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com
Penny Bartlett, Programmer for Short Films
HollywoodChicago.com: What is your definition regarding the art of the short film?
Penny Bartlett: One approach that I really like is a variation on the Ernest Hemingway metaphor regarding short stories. It’s the tip of the iceberg, where you show a small segment of a relationship, a world or a story...
HollywoodChicago.com spoke to three of the programmers – Penny Barlett on short films, Lee Ferdinand of documentaries and Rebecca Fons, who directs the education program.
Lee Ferdinand and Penny Barlett of the Chicago International Film Festival
Photo credit: Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com
Penny Bartlett, Programmer for Short Films
HollywoodChicago.com: What is your definition regarding the art of the short film?
Penny Bartlett: One approach that I really like is a variation on the Ernest Hemingway metaphor regarding short stories. It’s the tip of the iceberg, where you show a small segment of a relationship, a world or a story...
- 10/20/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Created to celebrate the contributions that female writers and directors continue to make to film around the world, the REELwomen program at the 47th Chicago International Film Festival will introduce Chicago audiences to the works of first-time women filmmakers and documentarians.
More than half of the documentaries featured in this year.s Docufest competition are directed by women, most of them focusing on the arts. First-time filmmakers like Yasemin Samderelli, Alice Rohrwacher and Julia Leigh explore issues of identity – whether national or sexual – while others, like Susan Jacobson are staking a claim on genre films. The program also welcomes the return of Festival alumni filmmakers Mia Hansen-Løve and Lynne Ramsay.
All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert USA (Director: Vivian Ducat) . If there was ever a case for designating a person a National Treasure, Winfred Rembert is that person. Though he lived through segregation and the civil rights era in the Deep South,...
More than half of the documentaries featured in this year.s Docufest competition are directed by women, most of them focusing on the arts. First-time filmmakers like Yasemin Samderelli, Alice Rohrwacher and Julia Leigh explore issues of identity – whether national or sexual – while others, like Susan Jacobson are staking a claim on genre films. The program also welcomes the return of Festival alumni filmmakers Mia Hansen-Løve and Lynne Ramsay.
All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert USA (Director: Vivian Ducat) . If there was ever a case for designating a person a National Treasure, Winfred Rembert is that person. Though he lived through segregation and the civil rights era in the Deep South,...
- 10/11/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Release Date: Nov. 1, 2011
Price: DVD $26.98
Studio: Magnolia
Busing takes on a whole new meaning in Magic Trip.
The documentary film Magic Trip focuses on a group of 1960s exploits embarked upon by Ken Kesey, the famed author of the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
In 1964, Kesey set off on a legendary, LSD-fueled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers that included Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s On the Road, and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary movie about their trip, shooting footage on 16mm, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. Until now, that is…
Directors Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood were given access to the raw footage by the Kesey family.
Price: DVD $26.98
Studio: Magnolia
Busing takes on a whole new meaning in Magic Trip.
The documentary film Magic Trip focuses on a group of 1960s exploits embarked upon by Ken Kesey, the famed author of the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
In 1964, Kesey set off on a legendary, LSD-fueled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers that included Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s On the Road, and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary movie about their trip, shooting footage on 16mm, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. Until now, that is…
Directors Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood were given access to the raw footage by the Kesey family.
- 10/6/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Chicago International Film Festival 2011
Love Always, Carolyn
Directed by: Malin Korkeasalo and Maria Ramstrom
Cast: Carolyn Cassady, John Allen Cassady, Cathy Cassady Sylvia
Running Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Rating: Nr
Release Date: Tbd
Click Here for complete coverage of the Chicago International Film Festival (Ciff 2011)
Plot: This film follows the exploits of Carolyn Cassady, husband of Neal Cassady and lover of Jack Kerouac.
Who’S It For? Fans of the Beat movement will undoubtedly be intrigued, but this film is also a beautiful example of what it means to be a woman, a mother, and a wife. Fans of female-driven films should take note of Carolyn Cassady’s story.
Overall
Love Always, Carolyn has the same sensibility as Grey Gardens in the sense that I was never sure if I wanted to laugh or if I wanted to cry. Then again, a well-made movie is capable of doing both and never...
Love Always, Carolyn
Directed by: Malin Korkeasalo and Maria Ramstrom
Cast: Carolyn Cassady, John Allen Cassady, Cathy Cassady Sylvia
Running Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Rating: Nr
Release Date: Tbd
Click Here for complete coverage of the Chicago International Film Festival (Ciff 2011)
Plot: This film follows the exploits of Carolyn Cassady, husband of Neal Cassady and lover of Jack Kerouac.
Who’S It For? Fans of the Beat movement will undoubtedly be intrigued, but this film is also a beautiful example of what it means to be a woman, a mother, and a wife. Fans of female-driven films should take note of Carolyn Cassady’s story.
Overall
Love Always, Carolyn has the same sensibility as Grey Gardens in the sense that I was never sure if I wanted to laugh or if I wanted to cry. Then again, a well-made movie is capable of doing both and never...
- 10/6/2011
- by Calhoun Kersten
- The Scorecard Review
Long-lost footage of journey across America by the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and his Merry Pranksters to spread the word about acid has been turned into a documentary
Flush with funds from the success of his debut novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey, then 29, drew up plans in 1963 to drive a bus across the Us to the World's Fair in New York. In June 1964, an exotically painted 1939 Harvester school bus rolled out of his ranch in La Honda, California. This was to be no ordinary journey. Kesey's Beat Generation associate Neal Cassady – the inspiration for Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's On the Road – was driving the bus they called Further. On board were half a dozen travellers who called themselves the Merry Pranksters and a jar of orange juice laced with LSD. The trip, immortalised in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,...
Flush with funds from the success of his debut novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey, then 29, drew up plans in 1963 to drive a bus across the Us to the World's Fair in New York. In June 1964, an exotically painted 1939 Harvester school bus rolled out of his ranch in La Honda, California. This was to be no ordinary journey. Kesey's Beat Generation associate Neal Cassady – the inspiration for Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's On the Road – was driving the bus they called Further. On board were half a dozen travellers who called themselves the Merry Pranksters and a jar of orange juice laced with LSD. The trip, immortalised in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,...
- 8/6/2011
- by Edward Helmore
- The Guardian - Film News
Courtesy Magnolia Pictures Ken Kesey’s Further Bus in “Magic Trip”
In 1964, Beat literature icon Ken Kesey gathered his friends and favorite musicians in a bus and drove east from California to New York. That trip became legendary in American counter-culture — and the subject of journalist Tom Wolfe’s 1968 “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” — and is now the basis for a new documentary from directors Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood. The 107-minute film is largely composed of 16 mm footage shot by passengers on the “Further” bus,...
In 1964, Beat literature icon Ken Kesey gathered his friends and favorite musicians in a bus and drove east from California to New York. That trip became legendary in American counter-culture — and the subject of journalist Tom Wolfe’s 1968 “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” — and is now the basis for a new documentary from directors Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood. The 107-minute film is largely composed of 16 mm footage shot by passengers on the “Further” bus,...
- 8/6/2011
- by Nick Andersen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Ted Streshinsky/Corbis Ken Kesey, October 1966, San Francisco, Calif.
In 1964, author Ken Kesey and an entourage known as the Merry Pranksters lit out from La Honda, Calif., bound for New York, on what would become one of the longest, strangest trips of all time. Armed with 16mm video cameras, musical instruments and copious quantities of LSD, they traveled in a 1939 International Harvester school bus painted day-glow colors and driven by beat generation icon Neal Cassady.
Filmmakers Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood...
In 1964, author Ken Kesey and an entourage known as the Merry Pranksters lit out from La Honda, Calif., bound for New York, on what would become one of the longest, strangest trips of all time. Armed with 16mm video cameras, musical instruments and copious quantities of LSD, they traveled in a 1939 International Harvester school bus painted day-glow colors and driven by beat generation icon Neal Cassady.
Filmmakers Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood...
- 7/29/2011
- by Rachel Dodes
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Reviewed by Jay Antani
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Band of Pranksters, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
Using a colorful, freewheeling style, “Magic Trip” chronicles Ken Kesey’s famously rambunctious cross-country road trip in 1964. Dismayed by the conformism of suburban, capitalistic America and by the violence up-ending the nation’s cultural life (Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination, etc.), Kesey, the acclaimed novelist behind “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and a crew of ragtag friends, including celebrated speed freak Neal Cassady, converted a ramshackle school bus into a multi-colored “Pleasure Palace” and took to the road. Their destination: the World’s Fair in New York City.
Equipped with 16mm cameras and sound equipment, the group — which dubbed itself the Merry Band of Pranksters — set out to make both a cinematic scrapbook of their journey and a freeform...
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Band of Pranksters, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
Using a colorful, freewheeling style, “Magic Trip” chronicles Ken Kesey’s famously rambunctious cross-country road trip in 1964. Dismayed by the conformism of suburban, capitalistic America and by the violence up-ending the nation’s cultural life (Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination, etc.), Kesey, the acclaimed novelist behind “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and a crew of ragtag friends, including celebrated speed freak Neal Cassady, converted a ramshackle school bus into a multi-colored “Pleasure Palace” and took to the road. Their destination: the World’s Fair in New York City.
Equipped with 16mm cameras and sound equipment, the group — which dubbed itself the Merry Band of Pranksters — set out to make both a cinematic scrapbook of their journey and a freeform...
- 7/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Jay Antani
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Band of Pranksters, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
Using a colorful, freewheeling style, “Magic Trip” chronicles Ken Kesey’s famously rambunctious cross-country road trip in 1964. Dismayed by the conformism of suburban, capitalistic America and by the violence up-ending the nation’s cultural life (Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination, etc.), Kesey, the acclaimed novelist behind “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and a crew of ragtag friends, including celebrated speed freak Neal Cassady, converted a ramshackle school bus into a multi-colored “Pleasure Palace” and took to the road. Their destination: the World’s Fair in New York City.
Equipped with 16mm cameras and sound equipment, the group — which dubbed itself the Merry Band of Pranksters — set out to make both a cinematic scrapbook of their journey and a freeform...
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Band of Pranksters, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
Using a colorful, freewheeling style, “Magic Trip” chronicles Ken Kesey’s famously rambunctious cross-country road trip in 1964. Dismayed by the conformism of suburban, capitalistic America and by the violence up-ending the nation’s cultural life (Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination, etc.), Kesey, the acclaimed novelist behind “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and a crew of ragtag friends, including celebrated speed freak Neal Cassady, converted a ramshackle school bus into a multi-colored “Pleasure Palace” and took to the road. Their destination: the World’s Fair in New York City.
Equipped with 16mm cameras and sound equipment, the group — which dubbed itself the Merry Band of Pranksters — set out to make both a cinematic scrapbook of their journey and a freeform...
- 7/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Title: Magic Trip Directed By: Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood Written By: Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood Cast: Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Robert Stone, Ken Babby, Allen Ginsberg, Jane Burton, George Walker, Paula Sundsten, Steve Lambrecht, Kathy Casamo, Stanley Tucci Screened at: Park Avenue, NYC, 6/20/11 Opens: August 5, 2011 By way of introduction: When John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, we sensed that change was in the air. His was the first such election of a fellow who was not a Protestant, indicating a loosening up of national prejudices. He was young, vigorous, and full of ideals realized in part by his forming of the...
- 6/21/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Earlier this month it was reported that Josh Lucas was in talks to take on the lead role of Mitch McDeere in NBC's new series adaptation of John Grisham's The Firm. Today it was announced that he has been officially cast in the drama series that picks up 10 years after the 1993 feature film left off.
Lucas is a great actor, and I think he'll be great in the role. He's been in films such as Session 9, Stealth, Sweet Home Alabama and several amount of other films. He recently co-stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar.
I'm looking forward to this new series. I always like this story, and it will be great to see the characters return and story to continue. What are your thoughts on Lucas staring in the series?
Here's the official press release:
Universal City, Calif. – June 8, 2011 -- Josh Lucas (“The Lincoln Lawyer...
Lucas is a great actor, and I think he'll be great in the role. He's been in films such as Session 9, Stealth, Sweet Home Alabama and several amount of other films. He recently co-stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar.
I'm looking forward to this new series. I always like this story, and it will be great to see the characters return and story to continue. What are your thoughts on Lucas staring in the series?
Here's the official press release:
Universal City, Calif. – June 8, 2011 -- Josh Lucas (“The Lincoln Lawyer...
- 6/9/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
The absurdly prolific director Alex Gibney -- I like to say that Gibney is to documentaries as Stephen King is to fiction; they just... can't... stop!! -- is busy once again. His film on infamous Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival (read my review here) but we've already got a trailer for another project: "Magic Trip." This one he only co-directed. Slacker.
If you've ever read Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" then you know the story: author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters on a legendary psychedelic road trip. Kesey and company shot 16mm footage of their journey but the material was never utilized or widely screened until now. Which means Gibney and co-director Alison Ellwood's film includes all sorts of rare archival footage of counterculture luminaries like Timothy Leary, Neal Cassady, and The Grateful Dead. Here's the trailer.
If you've ever read Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" then you know the story: author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters on a legendary psychedelic road trip. Kesey and company shot 16mm footage of their journey but the material was never utilized or widely screened until now. Which means Gibney and co-director Alison Ellwood's film includes all sorts of rare archival footage of counterculture luminaries like Timothy Leary, Neal Cassady, and The Grateful Dead. Here's the trailer.
- 5/24/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney just doesn’t stop. After winning the Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side in 2008 he has released Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, My Trip to Al-Qaeda, Freakonomics, and Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.
He recently premiered Magic Trip at Sundance and then his latest film, Catching Hell debuted at Tribeca just a few weeks ago. We now have the trailer for the former film, who he co-directed with Alison Ellwood. The film follows the 1964 expedition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey on his drug-fueled road trip. It didn’t garner strong reviews at Sundance, but one can see the trailer below via Apple and the film later this summer on VOD and in theaters.
Synopsis:
In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One...
He recently premiered Magic Trip at Sundance and then his latest film, Catching Hell debuted at Tribeca just a few weeks ago. We now have the trailer for the former film, who he co-directed with Alison Ellwood. The film follows the 1964 expedition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey on his drug-fueled road trip. It didn’t garner strong reviews at Sundance, but one can see the trailer below via Apple and the film later this summer on VOD and in theaters.
Synopsis:
In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One...
- 5/18/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Twilight Kristen Stewart's new 'On The Road' movie poster revealed. As previously reported, Twilight Saga leading starlet Kristen Stewart is going to be in a new,provocative indie flick called "On The Road," and the new movie poster (above) for it was recently revealed at the Cannes Film Festival in France. In the flick, Kristen plays character Marylou who is a 16 year old teen that brags about numerous sexual escapades she's had. The film is an adaptation of a classic by Jack Kerouac. It revolves around the years Kerouac spent traveling America in the 1940's with his friend Neal Cassady and several other figures who would go on to fame in their own right.
Twilight Kristen Stewart’s New ‘On The Road’ Movie Poster Revealed is a post from: ontheflix.com...
Twilight Kristen Stewart’s New ‘On The Road’ Movie Poster Revealed is a post from: ontheflix.com...
- 5/18/2011
- by Eric
- OnTheFlix
Here is our first look at the poster for Alex Gibney's Magic Trip., which premiered at Sundance this year. The film is slated to be released on demand July 1 in limited theaters on August 5.
Here's the official synopsis:
Ever wonder what it’s like to drop acid? Look no further. In 1964, Ken Kesey, celebrated author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, took a mythic excursion across America from the West to the East Coast. Fueled by massive doses of LSD, Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters embarked on the ultimate road trip. Their destination: Tomorrowland at the New York World's Fair. Steered by Jack Kerouac's infamous companion, Neal Cassady, Kesey and company rigged their psychedelic bus with cameras and a sound system and set out to chronicle a journey that took them through space, time, and the boundless landscape of the imagination.
Be sure to read...
Here's the official synopsis:
Ever wonder what it’s like to drop acid? Look no further. In 1964, Ken Kesey, celebrated author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, took a mythic excursion across America from the West to the East Coast. Fueled by massive doses of LSD, Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters embarked on the ultimate road trip. Their destination: Tomorrowland at the New York World's Fair. Steered by Jack Kerouac's infamous companion, Neal Cassady, Kesey and company rigged their psychedelic bus with cameras and a sound system and set out to chronicle a journey that took them through space, time, and the boundless landscape of the imagination.
Be sure to read...
- 5/11/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
This will certainly be a documentary that will not only make you think… you will never look at your parents the same!!!
In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of .One Flew Over the Cuckoo.s Nest,. set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World.s Fair. He was joined by .The Merry Band of Pranksters,. a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac.s .On the Road,. and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16Mm, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. With Magic Trip, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) and co-director Alison Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the Kesey family. They worked with the Film Foundation,...
In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of .One Flew Over the Cuckoo.s Nest,. set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World.s Fair. He was joined by .The Merry Band of Pranksters,. a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac.s .On the Road,. and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16Mm, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. With Magic Trip, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) and co-director Alison Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the Kesey family. They worked with the Film Foundation,...
- 5/11/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Filed under: Documentaries, Hot Docs Film Festival, Moviefone Canada
Hot Docs, North America's biggest documentary film festival, kicks off its 2011 run on April 28 in Toronto. Jam-packed with documentaries running through May 8, Moviefone Canada will be there from start to finish, offering up looks at some of the festival's noted films.
When myth becomes reality, is it worth pushing back with the truth? What if your truth is wrong?
These are the questions asked of Carolyn Cassady in 'Love Always, Carolyn: A Film About Kerouac, Cassady and Me'; forty years after the death of her iconic husband Neal, it seems the record on his life and the details of his legend are somewhat off by her count. But does anybody care?
If you haven't been influenced by the beat generation, you likely know someone who has. Your free-spirited girlfriend, a college buddy who was into everyone and everything, or that Deadhead...
Hot Docs, North America's biggest documentary film festival, kicks off its 2011 run on April 28 in Toronto. Jam-packed with documentaries running through May 8, Moviefone Canada will be there from start to finish, offering up looks at some of the festival's noted films.
When myth becomes reality, is it worth pushing back with the truth? What if your truth is wrong?
These are the questions asked of Carolyn Cassady in 'Love Always, Carolyn: A Film About Kerouac, Cassady and Me'; forty years after the death of her iconic husband Neal, it seems the record on his life and the details of his legend are somewhat off by her count. But does anybody care?
If you haven't been influenced by the beat generation, you likely know someone who has. Your free-spirited girlfriend, a college buddy who was into everyone and everything, or that Deadhead...
- 5/4/2011
- by Mark Wigmore
- Moviefone
Updated through 4/30.
"At first it was about neighborhood," begins Eric Hynes in the Voice. "Then it was about stars, parties, and supersizing. But finally, for its 10th incarnation, the Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) seems to be about movies. Gone are the superfluous, attention-sucking Hollywood premieres (Tom Cruise on a Jet Ski, anyone?), and few are the big-name, low-quality vanity projects. Several years into a vital slimming of the slate — the fest topped out at 176 films in 2005; this year, it's a manageable 93 — Tff remains New York's largest film survey."
To celebrate Tribeca's 10th, we're running a retrospective of some of the best films the festival's shown over the past decade here at Mubi. Happy viewing.
"A notoriously uneven assemblage of titles, Tribeca aspires toward something like a mini Toronto, but despite, in recent years, bringing such important films as Jia Zhangke's Still Life and Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows...
"At first it was about neighborhood," begins Eric Hynes in the Voice. "Then it was about stars, parties, and supersizing. But finally, for its 10th incarnation, the Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) seems to be about movies. Gone are the superfluous, attention-sucking Hollywood premieres (Tom Cruise on a Jet Ski, anyone?), and few are the big-name, low-quality vanity projects. Several years into a vital slimming of the slate — the fest topped out at 176 films in 2005; this year, it's a manageable 93 — Tff remains New York's largest film survey."
To celebrate Tribeca's 10th, we're running a retrospective of some of the best films the festival's shown over the past decade here at Mubi. Happy viewing.
"A notoriously uneven assemblage of titles, Tribeca aspires toward something like a mini Toronto, but despite, in recent years, bringing such important films as Jia Zhangke's Still Life and Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows...
- 4/30/2011
- MUBI
Jean-Marc Barr cast as lead role in Michael Polish's forthcoming adaptation of 1962 beat generation novel
Typical: you wait a lifetime for a big-screen beat generation movie and then three roll off the rank at once. Hard on the heels of last year's Howl and Walter Salles's yet-to-be-released On the Road comes Big Sur, an adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel by writer-director Michael Polish.
The independent production will star the French-American actor Jean-Marc Barr as Kerouac's thinly veiled alter ego Jack Duluoz, while Josh Lucas co-stars as Cody Pomeray, a substitute for regular Keroauc muse Neal Cassady. The cast also includes Kate Bosworth, Radha Mitchell and Anthony Edwards.
Published in 1962, the autobiographical Big Sur charts the meltdown of a feted young author, who flees his native New York to hole up in a cabin on the coast of California. It was based on Kerouac's own experiences at Big Sur,...
Typical: you wait a lifetime for a big-screen beat generation movie and then three roll off the rank at once. Hard on the heels of last year's Howl and Walter Salles's yet-to-be-released On the Road comes Big Sur, an adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel by writer-director Michael Polish.
The independent production will star the French-American actor Jean-Marc Barr as Kerouac's thinly veiled alter ego Jack Duluoz, while Josh Lucas co-stars as Cody Pomeray, a substitute for regular Keroauc muse Neal Cassady. The cast also includes Kate Bosworth, Radha Mitchell and Anthony Edwards.
Published in 1962, the autobiographical Big Sur charts the meltdown of a feted young author, who flees his native New York to hole up in a cabin on the coast of California. It was based on Kerouac's own experiences at Big Sur,...
- 4/18/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Twin Falls Idaho director Michael Polish has begun work on an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel Big Sur. According to Deadline, Polish has cast Jean-Marc Barr, best known for his work in the films of Lars von Trier, as the film's lead role of Jack Kerouac himself. Joining Barr will be Sweet Home Alabama lead Josh Lucas as Beat Generation muse Neal Cassady, and former Lois Lane Kate Bosworth as the two characters' love interest, Billie. Big Sur follows Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz as he moves from New York to California in an attempt to rebuild his (more)...
- 4/16/2011
- by By Tom Ayres
- Digital Spy
Twin Falls Idaho director Michael Polish has begun work on an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel Big Sur. According to Deadline, Polish has cast Jean-Marc Barr, best known for his work in the films of Lars von Trier, as the film's lead role of Jack Kerouac himself. Joining Barr will be Sweet Home Alabama lead Josh Lucas as Beat Generation muse Neal Cassady, and former Lois Lane Kate Bosworth as the two characters' love interest, Billie. Big Sur follows Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz as he moves from New York to California in an attempt to rebuild his (more)...
- 4/16/2011
- by By Tom Ayres
- Digital Spy
Director Michael Polish has begun production on his 1960's Beat Generation pic "Big Sur" for 3311 Productions reports Deadline.
The drama covers Jack Kerouac's move from New York to Northern California, as he tries to rediscover himself after badly handling the fame, drugs and decadent lifestyle that came with his groundbreaking novel "On The Road".
Jean-Marc Barr ("Dogville") will play Kerouac, Josh Lucas will play Neal Cassady and Kate Bosworth to play Billie, the woman linked to both. Anthony Edwards, Radha Mitchell, Balthazar Getty, Patrick Fischler, Stana Katic, John Robinson and Henry Thomas also star.
Polish scripted the film and will produce with Ross Jacobson, Mark Roberts, Eddie Vaisman and Adam Kassen.
The drama covers Jack Kerouac's move from New York to Northern California, as he tries to rediscover himself after badly handling the fame, drugs and decadent lifestyle that came with his groundbreaking novel "On The Road".
Jean-Marc Barr ("Dogville") will play Kerouac, Josh Lucas will play Neal Cassady and Kate Bosworth to play Billie, the woman linked to both. Anthony Edwards, Radha Mitchell, Balthazar Getty, Patrick Fischler, Stana Katic, John Robinson and Henry Thomas also star.
Polish scripted the film and will produce with Ross Jacobson, Mark Roberts, Eddie Vaisman and Adam Kassen.
- 4/16/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Has Hollywood been bitten by the Jack Kerouac bug? It seems like it, as the near future will be bringing us two different films based on the writings of the Beat icon. The first of these is an adaptation of what is perhaps his most famous work, Walter Salles‘s On the Road, which stars Garret Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Steve Buscemi and Viggo Mortensen. Meanwhile, Deadline is reporting that production has just commenced on a film version of his 1962 novel, Big Sur, which is being written and directed by The Astronaut Farmer helmer Michael Polish.
The movie stars Dogville actor Jean-Marc Barr as Kerouac (who has the pseudonym Jack Duluoz in the book), Josh Lucas as Neal Cassady ( referred to here as Cody Pomeray) and Kate Bosworth as Billie, the love interest. Also starring are Anthony Edwards, Radha Mitchell, Balthazar Getty, Patrick Fischler, Tana Katic, John Robinson and Henry Thomas.
The movie stars Dogville actor Jean-Marc Barr as Kerouac (who has the pseudonym Jack Duluoz in the book), Josh Lucas as Neal Cassady ( referred to here as Cody Pomeray) and Kate Bosworth as Billie, the love interest. Also starring are Anthony Edwards, Radha Mitchell, Balthazar Getty, Patrick Fischler, Tana Katic, John Robinson and Henry Thomas.
- 4/16/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Over at Deadline, they've exclusively announced the cast list for the next Jack Kerouac adaptation to come down the pipeline, Michael Polish's take on the author's 1962 novel, Big Sur.
While the outlet is reporting "Jean-Marc Barr to play Jack Kerouac, Josh Lucas to play Beat Generation fixture Neal Cassady and Kate Bosworth to play Billie," the book uses pseudonym character names for all those involved (which is, ahem, a bit of a Kerouac staple). The Kerouac character is actually called Jack Duluoz and the Cassady character is Cody Pomeray. "Billie" is indeed a correct character name, with her real life persona being attributed to Jackie Gibson Mercer. Anthony Edwards, Rahda Mitchell, Balthazar Getty, Patrick Fischler, Tana Katic, John Robinson, and Henry Thomas round out this very interesting cast.
Read more on Cast announced for Michael Polish’s “Big Sur” adaptation...
While the outlet is reporting "Jean-Marc Barr to play Jack Kerouac, Josh Lucas to play Beat Generation fixture Neal Cassady and Kate Bosworth to play Billie," the book uses pseudonym character names for all those involved (which is, ahem, a bit of a Kerouac staple). The Kerouac character is actually called Jack Duluoz and the Cassady character is Cody Pomeray. "Billie" is indeed a correct character name, with her real life persona being attributed to Jackie Gibson Mercer. Anthony Edwards, Rahda Mitchell, Balthazar Getty, Patrick Fischler, Tana Katic, John Robinson, and Henry Thomas round out this very interesting cast.
Read more on Cast announced for Michael Polish’s “Big Sur” adaptation...
- 4/15/2011
- by Kate Erbland
- GordonandtheWhale
With an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On The Road currently awaiting release [1], someone is already stepping up to adapt another of the beat author's famous works. Michael Polish, the director of Twin Falls Idaho, Northfork and The Astronaut Farmer, has written and begun directing Big Sur, a film based on the Kerouac novel that tells the story of his emotional troubles after gaining fame and fortune. It'll star Jean-Marc Barr (Dogville) as Kerouac, Josh Lucas as Neal Cassady and Kate Bosworth as their female companion Billie. Big Sur will also feature turns from Anthony Edwards, Rahda Mitchell, Balthazar Getty and Henry Thomas. Read more after the break. Deadline exclusively [2] reported that the film has begun shooting, produced by the newly founded 3311 Productions. Published in 1962, just 7 years before he died, Big Sur was one of Kerouac's final novels. Unlike most of his other autobiographical works, it portrays himself - under...
- 4/15/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
This marks the second recently-adapted piece of writing by classic Beat writer Jack Kerouac; the first, On The Road, was adapted by Walter Salles and featured Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst and Viggo Mortensen. Though this one, Big Sur, is somewhat less star-studded, it still sounds pretty legit. At least as far as Kerouac adaptations go.
Director Michael Polish has just announced the cast for Big Sur, currently in pre-production. Dogville's Jean-Marc Barr will play Kerouac himself, Josh Lucas will play fellow Beat icon Neal Cassady and Kate Bosworth will play the mysterious Billie, the woman who links them together.
read more...
Director Michael Polish has just announced the cast for Big Sur, currently in pre-production. Dogville's Jean-Marc Barr will play Kerouac himself, Josh Lucas will play fellow Beat icon Neal Cassady and Kate Bosworth will play the mysterious Billie, the woman who links them together.
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- 4/15/2011
- by Anna Breslaw
- Filmology
Director Michael Polish (Twin Falls Idaho) is filming a scene from a forthcoming film about Jack Kerouac today at Fulton and 7th Avenue, at a historic train terminal where Kerouac gets off a 1950s bus.
A big screen adaptation of memoirish novel Big Sur, starring Jean-Marc Barr (Dogville) as Kerouac, Josh Lucas (The Lincoln Lawyer) is taking on best friend Neal Cassady, and Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns) is playing Billie, as well as Anthony Edwards, Rahda Mitchell, Balthazar Getty and Henry Thomas are playing supporting roles.
Along with sudden fame and media publicity came his unraveling, and, by 1960, Kerouac was an exhausted cynic, disaffected from the Beat culture he helped create and tortured by self-doubt, addiction and depression.
He secretly retreats to Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s rustic cabin in the Big Sur woods. But his plan is foiled by his own inner demons, and what ensues that summer becomes the basis for Kerouac’s gritty,...
A big screen adaptation of memoirish novel Big Sur, starring Jean-Marc Barr (Dogville) as Kerouac, Josh Lucas (The Lincoln Lawyer) is taking on best friend Neal Cassady, and Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns) is playing Billie, as well as Anthony Edwards, Rahda Mitchell, Balthazar Getty and Henry Thomas are playing supporting roles.
Along with sudden fame and media publicity came his unraveling, and, by 1960, Kerouac was an exhausted cynic, disaffected from the Beat culture he helped create and tortured by self-doubt, addiction and depression.
He secretly retreats to Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s rustic cabin in the Big Sur woods. But his plan is foiled by his own inner demons, and what ensues that summer becomes the basis for Kerouac’s gritty,...
- 4/15/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
Michael Polish finds his Jack Kerouac Deadline New York reports that director Michael Polish has locked in the cast for "Big Sur," the latest film adaptation of a Jack Kerouac novel. Jean-Marc Barr will portray Kerouac, Josh Lucas will take on Neal Cassady and Kate Bosworth will play Billie, the woman romantically involved with both men. "Big Sur" takes places after Kerouac's most famous work, "On The Road," and chronicles ...
- 4/15/2011
- Indiewire
Fifty-plus years later, the Beat Generation is finally making its mark in film.
A big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "Big Sur," about the famed author's detox period on a California mountain following his whirlwind time traveling to and from his New York City home, has set its main cast. Deadline reports that in director Michael Polish's film, "Dogville" star Jean-Marc Barr is playing Kerouac, Josh Lucas is taking on inspiration/maniac/best friend Neal Cassady, and Kate Bosworth is playing Billie. In addition, playing smaller roles are Anthony Edwards, Rahda Mitchell, Balthazar Getty and Henry Thomas.
In 2008, "One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Jack Kerouac and Big Sur," a documentary about the experiences the book was based, on was released.
Kerouac's great classic, "On the Road," is also being made into a movie; in that film, Sam Riley ("Control") will play Sal Paradise, Kerouac's fictionalized self. Joining...
A big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "Big Sur," about the famed author's detox period on a California mountain following his whirlwind time traveling to and from his New York City home, has set its main cast. Deadline reports that in director Michael Polish's film, "Dogville" star Jean-Marc Barr is playing Kerouac, Josh Lucas is taking on inspiration/maniac/best friend Neal Cassady, and Kate Bosworth is playing Billie. In addition, playing smaller roles are Anthony Edwards, Rahda Mitchell, Balthazar Getty and Henry Thomas.
In 2008, "One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Jack Kerouac and Big Sur," a documentary about the experiences the book was based, on was released.
Kerouac's great classic, "On the Road," is also being made into a movie; in that film, Sam Riley ("Control") will play Sal Paradise, Kerouac's fictionalized self. Joining...
- 4/15/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Exclusive: Director Michael Polish has started production on the 1960s pic Big Sur, setting Dogville's Jean-Marc Barr to play Jack Kerouac, Josh Lucas to play Beat Generation fixture Neal Cassady and Kate Bosworth to play Billie, the woman linked to both. The drama covers Kerouac's move from New York to Northern California, as he tries to rediscover himself after badly handling the fame, drugs and decadent lifestyle that came with his groundbreaking novel On The Road. Anthony Edwards, Rahda Mitchell, Balthazar Getty and Henry Thomas are also in the Polish-scripted film. 3311 Productions, a newly formed financing/production company, funded the film. Polish produces with 3311's Ross Jacobson, Mark Roberts, Eddie Vaisman and Adam Kassen. Orian Williams is also producing. It's the second Kerouac to be recently adapted, as Walter Salles shot a screen version of On the Road with Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Viggo Mortensen.
- 4/15/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Neal Cassady's friend William S. Burroughs once remarked: "There is no line between the 'real world' and the world of myth and symbol." For Neal's wife Carolyn and the family from which he hastily departed on many occasions, that quote could not ring truer. This cinematic documentary, as graceful as Carolyn herself, gives the stage to an unconventional tale of the great woman behind a great man, and the inescapable ...
- 4/8/2011
- Indiewire
Neal Cassady's friend William S. Burroughs once remarked: "There is no line between the 'real world' and the world of myth and symbol." For Neal's wife Carolyn and the family from which he hastily departed on many occasions, that quote could not ring truer. This cinematic documentary, as graceful as Carolyn herself, gives the stage to an unconventional tale of the great woman behind a great man, and the inescapable ...
- 4/8/2011
- indieWIRE - People
By Kim Palacios
hollywoodnews.com: Will Kristen Stewart take it all off in “On the Road”? According to Hollywood Life’s Stephanie Wenger and Russ Weakland, Stewart “doesn’t shy away from being constantly naked. In fact, she is nude in her very first scene and it only gets more racy from there.”
Stewart will be playing the role of Marylou, who is believed to be based on real-life associate of Kerouac, Luanne Henderson, one of the earliest of the Beat muses who did much to inspire and inflame the passions of Kerouac. She was married to well-known Beatnik, Neal Cassady, for a time, until they had their marriage annulled so he could marry his pregnant girlfriend. Described as “beautiful with long curly hair, blue eyes and a wild spirit”, her character features prominently in “On the Road” and under other aliases in Kerouac’s other works.
In “On the Road”, Marylou marries,...
hollywoodnews.com: Will Kristen Stewart take it all off in “On the Road”? According to Hollywood Life’s Stephanie Wenger and Russ Weakland, Stewart “doesn’t shy away from being constantly naked. In fact, she is nude in her very first scene and it only gets more racy from there.”
Stewart will be playing the role of Marylou, who is believed to be based on real-life associate of Kerouac, Luanne Henderson, one of the earliest of the Beat muses who did much to inspire and inflame the passions of Kerouac. She was married to well-known Beatnik, Neal Cassady, for a time, until they had their marriage annulled so he could marry his pregnant girlfriend. Described as “beautiful with long curly hair, blue eyes and a wild spirit”, her character features prominently in “On the Road” and under other aliases in Kerouac’s other works.
In “On the Road”, Marylou marries,...
- 3/27/2011
- by Kim Palacios
- Hollywoodnews.com
One of the largest documentary film festivals in the world, Toronto's Hot Docs just announced its full line-up which includes premieres galore (I won't bore you with the stats) both locally and internationally.Some Highlights include the follow-up film from Man On Wire's Jim Marsh, Project Nim. A biography of the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Jay Cheel's Beauty Day, a look at the life and blue-collar art from pre-Jack Ass stunt-tomfoolery pioneer Ralph Zavadil (aka Cap'n Video). Magic Trip, Alex Gibney (Client 9, Taxi to the Darkside) and Allison Ellwood's look at Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac's On the Road...
- 3/22/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Hot Docs has announced 26 documentary features that will be a part of this year’s Special Presentations program, a high-profile collection of world and international premieres, award-winners from the recent international festival circuit, and works by master filmmakers, and featuring some star subjects.
The full selection of films to screen at Hot Docs 2011 will be announced on March 22, including the 2011 opening night film but here are the special presentation titles, ordered alphabetically:
The Advocate For Fagdom D: Angélique Bosio | Germany | 92 min | North American Premiere
Romantic-Queercore-punk-zombie pornographer, gleeful crusher of cliché, righteousness and repressive politics: Viva Bruce Labruce! Scintillating film clips and fabulous interviews with John Waters, Harmony Korine, and Gus Van Sant reveal Toronto’s gift to the world.
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest D: Michael Rapaport | USA | 98 min | International Premiere
Actor Michael Rapaport’s directorial debut hits the road with Q-Tip, Phife, Ali and Jarobi,...
The full selection of films to screen at Hot Docs 2011 will be announced on March 22, including the 2011 opening night film but here are the special presentation titles, ordered alphabetically:
The Advocate For Fagdom D: Angélique Bosio | Germany | 92 min | North American Premiere
Romantic-Queercore-punk-zombie pornographer, gleeful crusher of cliché, righteousness and repressive politics: Viva Bruce Labruce! Scintillating film clips and fabulous interviews with John Waters, Harmony Korine, and Gus Van Sant reveal Toronto’s gift to the world.
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest D: Michael Rapaport | USA | 98 min | International Premiere
Actor Michael Rapaport’s directorial debut hits the road with Q-Tip, Phife, Ali and Jarobi,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Tribeca Film Festival has announced the line up of this years competition categories, including World Narrative Feature, World Documentary Feature, and the brand new Viewpoints which highlights eleven independent features and nine documentaries.
Tribeca Film Festival is one of leading film festivals located in New York City, showcasing many films not screened in any other U.S. film festival along with forty three world premieres and fifty four directorial debuts. Cameron Crowe’s premier of his concert documentary, The Union, will start the festival followed by a performance by Elton John. The rest of the lineup will be announced March 14th, and look out for coverage of the festival in April. Below you can find the complete press release on the lineup.
10th Tribeca Film Festival Announces World Narrative
And Documentary Competition Selections, And New Viewpoints Section
Tribeca Expands Awards Scope
2011 Festival to Present 88 Feature-Length and 61 Short Films April 20 – May...
Tribeca Film Festival is one of leading film festivals located in New York City, showcasing many films not screened in any other U.S. film festival along with forty three world premieres and fifty four directorial debuts. Cameron Crowe’s premier of his concert documentary, The Union, will start the festival followed by a performance by Elton John. The rest of the lineup will be announced March 14th, and look out for coverage of the festival in April. Below you can find the complete press release on the lineup.
10th Tribeca Film Festival Announces World Narrative
And Documentary Competition Selections, And New Viewpoints Section
Tribeca Expands Awards Scope
2011 Festival to Present 88 Feature-Length and 61 Short Films April 20 – May...
- 3/9/2011
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) on Monday announced the first 44 feature films of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival slate, comprising the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections, and one new section: Viewpoints.
In a record year for submissions, the 2011 film slate was chosen from a field of 5,624 entries. Tff 2011 will include feature films from 32 countries, including 43 world premieres, 10 international premieres, 19 North American premieres, seven U.S. Premieres and nine New York premieres.
“It’s our 10th Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Tff executive director Nancy Schafer in a statement. “The festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”
A complete list of the films announced Monday follows, with descriptions provided by the festival.
World Narrative Features
“Angel’s Crest”
Directed by Gaby Dellal
Written by Catherine Trieschmann
(UK,...
In a record year for submissions, the 2011 film slate was chosen from a field of 5,624 entries. Tff 2011 will include feature films from 32 countries, including 43 world premieres, 10 international premieres, 19 North American premieres, seven U.S. Premieres and nine New York premieres.
“It’s our 10th Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Tff executive director Nancy Schafer in a statement. “The festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”
A complete list of the films announced Monday follows, with descriptions provided by the festival.
World Narrative Features
“Angel’s Crest”
Directed by Gaby Dellal
Written by Catherine Trieschmann
(UK,...
- 3/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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