Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film
Jack Kerouac was a Beat Generation writer who took the nation by storm upon the publication of his novel On the Road. Kerouac's legacy and influence are explained via interviews with Kerouac's friends and contemporaries such as William S. Burrou
本片是美国摇滚乐队“THE BAND"在三藩市作告别演出音乐会的纪录片。 片中的大腕实在太多了。 马丁.史高塞斯的导演手法出色,在把握节奏、色彩运用方面掌握得非常有尺度;鲍里斯.李文的摄影技术也是炉火纯青,使得本片成为摇滚乐纪录片的代表作之一。