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Read more...Happy 60th Anniversary, City Lights
With great respect and admiration, the Beat Museum congratulates Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Booksellers and Publishers as they, North Beach—and indeed the entire literary world—celebrate 60 years in business! Since 1953, City Lights has been a tireless champion of the free exchange of ideas, and a stalwart defender of free expression. If you’re reading […]
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Read more...Big Sur Film Review
by Jerry Cimino I was meeting with movie director Michael Polish on a long, sprawling road called Highway One, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The road had been absolutely devoid of automobile traffic for the previous thirty minutes. That never happens in real life, and I found that warped reality to be a little unnerving. All […]
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Rest in Peace, Ray Manzarek
Ray Manzarek, best known as the innovative keyboardist for The Doors, died Monday, May 20th, after a long battle with cancer. He was 74. Manzarek and Jim Morrison formed The Doors in 1965, later recruiting John Densmore (drums) and Robby Krieger (guitar). Manzarek’s Vox Continental keyboard arrangements epitomized The Doors’ sound, setting the band apart […]
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Greta Bellamacina – Love Song to SF
Broadway and Columbus is like some magnificent vortex. You never know who will come sweeping in off the street. We get ’em all—from the down and out homeless person to up-and-coming supermodels visiting from overseas. One such model is Greta Bellamacina. She came in about six months ago, had an air about her that you […]
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Read more...Meet the Artists: Kill Your Darlings at Sundance
Director John Krokidas gives us a look at his new film, Kill Your Darlings, based on And the Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks:
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Read more...Interview with Big Sur’s Jean-Marc Barr
Niya Suddarth, media correspondent for the Beat Museum, interviews actor Jean-Marc Barr about his upcoming film, Big Sur, in which he plays Mr. Jack Kerouac. The interview takes place during the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah, 2013. Production by: Visual Creativ Interview With Jean-Marc Barr “BIG SUR” from Visual Creativ. on Vimeo. Some […]
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Read more...Official Trailer: Big Sur
Directed by Michael Polish Starring: Jean-Marc Barr as Jack Duluoz Kate Bosworth as Billie Radha Mitchell as Carolyn Cassady Josh Lucas as Neal Cassady More info at Internet Movie Database
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Read more...On the Road Screening at Skywalker Ranch
December 7, 2012 by Jerry Cimino The publicity machine for the US release of On the Road is starting to kick into full gear. Walter Salles, Garrett Hedlund, and Kristen Stewart have been making the rounds along with Executive Producer Francis Ford Coppola. It’s a thing of beauty to witness because, in my opinion, these […]
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On the Road Makes US Debut at Mill Valley Film Festival
by Jerry Cimino The silver screen has not always been kind to Jack Kerouac. While there have been many exceptional documentary films made over the years, a really good feature film either about Kerouac, or based upon one of his works, has somehow eluded Hollywood. Think The Beat Generation (1959) by Albert Zugsmith, The Subterraneans (1960) based upon Kerouac’s […]
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Read more...On the Road Makes US Debut at Mill Valley Film Festival
by Jerry Cimino The silver screen has not always been kind to Jack Kerouac. While there have been many exceptional documentary films made over the years, a really good feature film either about Kerouac, or based upon one of his works, has somehow eluded Hollywood. Think The Beat Generation (1959) by Albert Zugsmith, The Subterraneans (1960) based upon Kerouac’s […]
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NY Times Recognizes The Beat Museum Amongst Major Cultural Institutions
According to Sunday’s New York Times, The Beat Museum is rubbing elbows with some real heavyweights—institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Ringling Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution, among others. John Hanc’s […]
