Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
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...
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...
Beat poem parable to black youth.
A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.
Jack Kerouac returns to earth as an angel with the goal of changing the life of a struggling writer.
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...
A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of...
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.
To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Humanities Festival brings together a motley crew...
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...
Howl is an homage to the reading rituals of the Beat poets, to Wholly Communion, to 1965, to Allen Ginsberg, to Jack Kerouac, to William Burroughs,...
Happy Gilmore isn’t done with golf — not by a long shot. Adam Sandler’s short-fused legend swings for a comeback to make his...
Against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel's First Family is forced to balance their roles as heroes with the...
The wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.
When an unidentified disease starts to upend her life, a socialite must unravel the mystery behind it — before her whole sense of self falls...
Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.
On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition...
Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter...
A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.
