11 October 1997 History, Factual 50 mins
Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a fire-watcher on Washington state's Desolation Peak. After this stint he was never the same creative force again.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti as Self
Robert Giroux as Self
Carolyn Cassady as Self
Jack Kerouac as Self (archive footage)
Allen Ginsberg as Self (archive footage)
Steve Allen as Self
Andrew O'Hagan Writer
Andrea Miller Executive Producer
Susan A. Banks Production Assistant
Warren Meneely Editor
Andrew O'Hagan Presenter
United Kingdom 11 October 1997
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1997:
08 August 1997
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter.
05 December 1997
Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
01 August 1997
A short dark animation about loneliness, aliens and sex in public places.
06 June 1997
Mafia is trying to force an Afghanistan war veteran Arseniy to become a contract killer.
12 July 1997
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure.
08 July 1997
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art.
27 August 1997
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
22 November 1997
A story about Boyong, the master barber, and Apolinario, Boyong's nephew and apprentice. They man their shabby barbershop, dreaming of hitting the big time someday.
30 November 1997
Marjetka is living ten years with Maks, who is a painter, and an uncompromising conceptual artist. At first, it seemed different: Max was witty, charming, talented and promising, so he hired Marjetka to reach fame and success.
16 March 1997
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties.
09 August 1997
Since weeks it’s cold and wet. It’s already late, Karl Winter is on his way home. Under dark circumstances he accidentally meets a woman of mysterious fascination – Martha… And so begins a love story of fatal dynamics which throws Karl far off the tracks of reason.
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