Whatever Happened To Kerouac? The Jack Kerouac Story
Considers the life and career of seminal Beat novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. Features rare interview footage with his contemporaries, and fellow Beats members, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. Read more
| Starring | Jack Kerouac |
|---|---|
| Director | Richard Lerner, Lewis McAdams |
| Genres | Documentary |
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Whatever Happened To Kerouac? The Jack Kerouac Story
Considers the life and career of seminal Beat novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. Features rare interview footage with his contemporaries, and fellow Beats members, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.
| Starring | Jack Kerouac |
|---|---|
| Director | Richard Lerner, Lewis McAdams |
| Studio | DELTA VISUAL ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 50 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 18 Jul 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (2)
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...abounds in insights about a writer who laboured a decade to attain success and then a decade being ruined by it...
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This film is 99% pure genius Kerouac.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Painting pictures on the screen
WHTJKerouac is a film that provides extensive interviews with Beat generation writers and Kerouac affiliates such as Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso and many more. It is pure talking head opinions about Jack's life with a little archive footage tacked alongside and these small pieces of footage were only televised segments and therefore only portrayed Jack's shy side. One for those with a prior knowledge of Jack Kerouac or the beats looking to go further into the horses mouth.
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You'd have to be an enthusiast
Top content, and I felt it was well put together. But somehow, it didn't hit the spot for me.
I felt it was actually a bit too literary, and a bit too serious. Putting it another way: Kerouac was said to be a great listener and a great storyteller, someone who enjoyed people, life, and music.
Watching this, though, I was left with the feeling that, surely being a beat writer and icon must have been *more fun* than it's portrayed in this particular documentary.
Maybe it reflected the man's life; but I felt it didn't seem to reflect his times, or his works.
But then again - hey, maybe it wasn't meant to... -
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Whatever Happened To Kerouac? The Jack Kerouac Story
Considers the life and career of seminal Beat novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. Features rare interview footage with his contemporaries, and fellow Beats members, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs....
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