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The Source (1999 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Source' is a 1999 documentary film directed by Chuck Workman.[https://www.indiewire.com/1999/08/interview-chuck-workman-gets-to-the-source-in-beat-documentary-82120/ INTERVIEW: Chuck Workman gets to The Source in Beat Documentary|IndieWire]
Summary
The film is about the Beat Generation and its impact on the counterculture movements from the 1960s-70s onwards[https://poets.org/text/source-film-beat-generation The Source : A film of the Beat Generation.|Academy of American Poets]and features appearances by Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, and John Turturro each reciting one writer's work (as with Turturro reciting 'Howl') to another.[https://film.avclub.com/the-source-1798195190 AV Club]
Reception
The film received positive acclaim with an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_source_the_story_of_the_beats_and_the_beat_generation_1999/ Rotten Tomatoes]
Gary Morris of 'Bright Lights Journal', however, states that the "intriguing yet shallow" documentary is less a linear biography of the movement than a kind of "Beat chic" sampler.[https://brightlightsfilm.com/beatnik-chic-chuck-workmans-source/#.XW8LuHdFzIU Beatnik Chic: Chuck Workmans The Source - Bright Lights Journal]
See also
* 'Howl'-2010 film starring James Franco as Ginsberg
* United States in the 1950s
*'On the Road'-2012 adaptation of Kerouac's magnum opus
References
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