
IMDb - 6.9/10 (73 votes)
PULL MY DAISY
Director: Robert Frank
Screen play: Jack Kerouac
Director of phtography: Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie
Editing: Leon Prochnik, Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie
Music: David Amram
Cast: Mooney Peebles, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Larry Rivers
Production: G-String Enterprises
Language: English
Subtitles: Hardcoded italian (TVRip)
1959 - 16 mm - Noir et blanc - 27'
[quote]Swiss director and photographer Robert Frank films his friends, the principal protagonists of the «Beat Generation». It was Kerouac's idea to bring together 10 or so people to whom he would lend his voice, commenting the scenes with his jazzy diction. Cult film for an entire generation, Pull My Daisy echoes Cassavetes' Shadows. Its poetry, humor and love have rarely been equalled.
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Pull My Daisy received its theatrical premiere on November 11, 1959 at Cinema 16, on a double bill with John Cassavetes’ Shadows. In his introduction to Parker Tyler’s book Underground Film, J. Hoberman says it was at this moment that “the Underground announced itself.” Jonas Mekas praised the film as a “free improvisation” and Jerry Kallmer perceived in it a cinematic movement “toward ‘pure film’, spontaneity, freedom.” No doubt a significant amount of what we see on screen was improvised; however, it’s clear watching the film now that the composition of the shots – and, of course, the storyline itself – were carefully planned. It’s a measure of the filmmakers’ achievement that the feeling of spontaneity comes through even today.
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Ooook, finally I've bought a cheap DVD recorder, so it's time for some TVRips

More rare stuff from Rai3 to come

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