Tag: jackkerouac

For NYU grad student Jim Jarmusch, being consistently presented with scenes like Patti Smith dancing on the tables of Max's Kansas City, while the band Television helmed the stage, was all part of the New York landscape. Meanwhile, his best friend...

Seldom, if ever, has a film taken such potent source material as does John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings and proven itself so completely and utterly clueless as to what to do with it. Krokidas here tackles the rise of the...

Seldom, if ever, has a film taken such potent source material as does John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings and proven itself so completely and utterly clueless as to what to do with it. Krokidas here tackles the rise of the...

The idea of adapting a novel as precious to the American psyche as On the Road would be terribly ambitious, even without the narrative complications of Jack Kerouac's famously stream-of-consciousness storytelling style. Ask Francis Ford Coppola. He has been working...

(On the Road screens at TIFF tonight and tomorrow morning. Here's our review from this year's Cannes Film Festival.) The idea of adapting a novel as precious to the American psyche as On the Road would be terribly ambitious, even...

The idea of adapting a novel as precious to the American psyche as ON THE ROAD would be terribly ambitious, even without the narrative complications of Jack Kerouac's famously stream of consciousness storytelling style. Ask Francis Ford Coppola. He has...

Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac classic On The Road takes a bow in Cannes this year and US distributor IFC Films / Sundance Selects have just premiered a pair of clips to give audiences a first look at Sam...

A new trailer has arrived for the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's book, ON THE ROAD, beloved by millions of readers for over 50 years. This road movie is directed by Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION, THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES);...

There has been chatter about it for years and now the Walter Salles directed adaptation of On The Road is about to start production with, apparently, Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams joining the cast as Old Bull Lee and his...