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  • That seems to be a brilliant documentary.

  • a great read..

  • Did he ever go to Santa Cruz?

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  • anybody know where i can watch this the whole movie? kerouac is my hero him and johnny cash

  • @jp70349 Check on Amazon One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Music from Kerouac's Big Sur (Deluxe CD/DVD)

    Soundtrack's also amazing!

  • ¿Alguien sabe si lo han traducido al español?

  • Great great book, Big Sur is one of the most Amazing places ive ever been!!

  • what bitter irony to see herb gold who was and who is 100% jealous of kerouac who published several lame put-downs of jack when he was alive now trying to coat-tail on his fame...such dumb shit (means you donal)

  • ma possibile che non ci sia una versione italiana?

    è stata proiettata al festival di Mantova...ma ch è?..ne avevano solo una copia?

  • anyone knows where i can buy this movie?

  • esiste la versione italiana in DVD ?

    is there the italian version on DVD?

  • off the road

  • so i suppose he just kept on drinking after those terrible dreams

  • just read tristessa is being made into a movie...i want to die.

  • Happened to catch this documentary on TV one night and it really made an impression on me. I've only read On the Road but I'm really looking forward to plunge deep inside this book!

  • @mmaccoutinho WAIT! before you do i hopefully offer that you will first pick up The Dharma Bums. You can read all about his growth being fresh and sober in the mind, climbing mountains, and practicing buddhism, so that when you read Big Sur you can really contrast the differences in the thought and writing..its great.

  • @noreggi Oh, thanks for the tip, I'll do so : )

  • @noreggi Goddamn man, Dharma Bums is probably one of the best books I've read and i'm not even finished with it... what a ride! I've already laughed and bitten my nails in distress and restrained myself from shedding that kinda marvellous bitter-sweet tears over passages that come out of the blue and hit you in the face like an express ghost train to which you can't cling no matter what. Thnx a bunch!

  • @mmaccoutinho when hes climbing that first mountain, just starting the first trail i got a brighter picture than any movie has ever given. Oh its all so quiet and serene in these chapters while Big Sur is the old stinking sneezing goopy writing Kerouac always had in him. But man if your not yet finished Dharma Bums the end pictures are the best.

  • 4 years of drunking chaos was the cause...

  • what are you talking about?most far-left liberals *have* a utopian view of society w/ the middle class (the average man) at the most prominent group (the proletariat, duh)..ever heard of Communism???

  • Jack Kerouac ( and Lenny Bruce ) were always (and are still) held up by the left as cultural icons when, in fact, both men were essentially conservative in their personal views. Both had a vision of America that was actually very middle class utopian.

  • Looking forward to this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • somehting knows if it has some kind of subtitles? at least in english? thanks...

  • Pretty neat, now I'm gonna have to read Big Sur for the first time. I've read a few others, but never Big Sur. Looks like a cool movie though, sticks to the real Jack Kerouac, not some mythological Jack.

  • In May 2008, I took The Drive -- up CA Highway 1 to Big Sur before the Big Fire. See my video response above. I felt what mesmerized Kerouac about that place. Can't wait to see this film.

  • Ah, a bit of Waits to keep me calm before Imaginarium...

    I still think he should do a sequel to Cold Feet...Kenny outta jail....

  • The soundtrack is wonderful! Definitely have to check the film out

  • Does anybody know where to get this?

  • its released october in three formats vinyl,cd/dvd and dvd/book

  • cannot believe that ben gibbard and jay farrar are the soundtrack for this documentary.

    can't wait.

  • LUV the book - and Desolation Angels, another one people rarely about. looking forward to this!! I trekked across the country with Dharma Bums and On The Road in my backpack!!

  • What gets me about Big Sur is what I read Ginsberg say about it, to be able after the fact to get IT down on paper- what it's like to completely lose your mind as in the last few chapters while not in that state is pure genius and no simple task; the psychosis comes through loud and clear even after numerous readings. A vastly underrated gem of a novel.

  • Big Sur is my favorite Kerouac book, it's entirely too real...an endorsement from Wait's never hurts

  • i hate celebrity culture but its good to see recognizable(?)faces diggin kerouac

  • the darkest kerouac book ive read so far but i found some of it very funny.

    my favorite character in it was alf the lonley old mule.

    the description of his hangover in the first few pages is so desperate it actually makes me feel sick myself

  • Definitely. The ending scared me too.

    I liked how Cody returns in the book all grown up, but still nostalgic and unchangeable.

    Does anybody know when this is coming out and where I can watch it?

  • It originally premiered at the del mar theatre in santa cruz last year. I believe it was independent at the time. Unknown how well or if it will be publicisized, but I'm sure if you look hard enough you can find it. Its worth it.

  • I took the circuitous route with Kerouac, read Orpheaus Emerged and than Big Sur, Sur kind of changed my life, I've read it 10 times and have yet to buy another Kerouac book. I feel like reading on the road will cheapen things after having read Big Sur.

  • try 'dharma bums', a whimsy cp to the madness and desperation of 'sur' but beautiful in my opinion, my fave kerouac and my fave book outright...

  • This is absolutely great to see! I can't wait to watch this. Good to see Tom Waits in it, by the way!

    Kerouac never dies.

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