Beat Week Takes New York On A Trip

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Parent Category: Film Festivals

Category: Previews

Published on Sunday, 16 December 2012 21:00

Written by Renzo Adler

No matter how jaded we become, the open road will always have a strange allure, particularly when the open road is juxtaposed with the grit and naiveté of the 1960’s beatnik and counter culture movement. It’s that feeling that all you need is wheels, sex, intoxicants, and idealism and you turn into a leather-clad genius-prophet.

Leading up to the release of Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, the IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, New York) will be putting on a weeklong retrospective called On the Road Retrospective: Road Movies: Directed and Selected by Walter Salles, along with beatnik related events throughout New York.

Films being shown are:

• In Search of On the Road
• On the Road
• The Searchers
• Central Station
• Alice in the Cities
• The Passenger
• Detour
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Paris, Texas
• Ten
• Easy Rider
• Foreign Land
• Iracema

The Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn) will do a free advance screening of On the Road along with performances by a live bebop band on Sunday, December 16, 2012.

Compete in an On the Road-themed poetry slam, or just come to listen at the Nuyorican Poets Café (236 East 3rd Street) featuring poets from lit journals and poetry clubs all across the city on Tuesday, December 11.

Check IFC for more Beatnik related events throughout the week.

To learn more, go to: http://bk.knittingfactory.com/

http://www.nuyorican.org/

or http://www.ifccenter.com/

The IFC Center
323 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10014

Knitting Factory – Brooklyn
361 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Nuyorican Poets Café
236 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009

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