Janet Forman
The Beat Generation: An American Dream
Edition 1987
86'
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1988
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Documentary
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Dialogue:
English
Director:
Janet Forman
Composer:
David Amram
With:
Steve Allen, David Amram, Amiri Baraka
THE BEAT GENERATION
Producer-director Janet Forman has assembled an absorbing collage of narration, talking heads and vintage 1950s news and home movie footage. For those who know the era and for those just discovering it, the pic is an informative nod back.
All the living principal players are inter- viewed including Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (then known as Leroi Jones) and William Burroughs. Era legends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassidy and Thelonious Monk are represented on archival footage. Steve Allen narrates, reminding us he once cut a record accompanying Kerouac reading his work. (Variety, 18.3.1987)
Producer-director Janet Forman has assembled an absorbing collage of narration, talking heads and vintage 1950s news and home movie footage. For those who know the era and for those just discovering it, the pic is an informative nod back.
All the living principal players are inter- viewed including Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (then known as Leroi Jones) and William Burroughs. Era legends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassidy and Thelonious Monk are represented on archival footage. Steve Allen narrates, reminding us he once cut a record accompanying Kerouac reading his work. (Variety, 18.3.1987)
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Credits
Director
Janet Forman
Composer
David Amram
With
Steve Allen, David Amram, Amiri Baraka
Director of Photography
Tom Houghton
Editor
Peter Odabashian
Producer
Janet Forman
More information
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Year
1988
