Explore
 Lists  Reviews  Images  Update feed
Categories
MoviesTV ShowsMusicBooksGamesDVDs/Blu-RayPeopleArt & DesignPlacesWeb TV & PodcastsToys & CollectiblesComic Book SeriesBeautyAnimals   View more categories »
Listal logo

The Source (1999)

Directed by


Starring (View all)
Johnny Depp Johnny Depp
Jack Kerouac
Dennis Hopper Dennis Hopper
William S. Burroughs
John Turturro John Turturro
Allen Ginsberg


Written by


Lists

134 votes
Amazing Underrated Obscure Bizarre Films PART 12 (50 items)
list by JayTrotter
Published 12 years, 4 months ago 20 comments
36 votes
Freaky/Spooky Watchlist (A touch of madness) (2723 items)
list by LBKitty
Published 9 years, 11 months ago 1 comment
2 votes
Johnny Depp films (36 items)
list by PvtCaboose91
Published 16 years, 5 months ago 1 comment

Cover art, photos and screenshots


Description: 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 other ... (more)
Release date: 23 January 1999
UPC: 720917522524
Tags: 90s (1), Documentary (1), 1999 (1), Poetry (1), Library (1)
My tags: Add tags

Update feed

Walk of Fame rated this 10/10 1 year, 1 month ago
LuisMataB added this to wanted list 2 years, 3 months ago

People who liked this also liked

Rating: 4.5
Rating: 4.9
Rating: 4.9
Rating: 5.1
Rating: 5.3
Rating: 5.4
Rating: 5.5
Rating: 5.5
Rating: 5.5
Rating: 5.6
Rating: 5.6
Rating: 5.6
Rating: 5.6
Rating: 5.6
Rating: 5.6
Rating: 5.6
Rating: 5.7
Rating: 5.7
Rating: 5.7
Rating: 5.8
Rating: 5.8