Comments on: ONE FAST MOVE OR I’M GONE: KEROUAC’S BIG SUR

By: martin witt

martin witt — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:01:41 +0000

@michael: totally agree, though i haven´t seen the movie yet, xept for the trailer. looks very promising. tracked down my kerouac in the nineties big time, from denver all over the west, all the familiar “beat resorts” (missed the east coast though…)and to me it was in a way what it might have been for jack as well. the longing for solitude and salvation. wonder if people celebrating pop culture today and every day are aware that it all began with one man´s visions, created in the current of good and evil…, in the loneliness of desolation peak and an old cabin on the shores of the mighty pacific. something we all know, something bigger that life now. poor man though…

By: Michael Reiss

Michael Reiss — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:03:34 +0000

Just saw the film last week – it’s the best documentary on Kerouac that has yet to be made. I’ve been reading Kerouac for all of my adult life – and this doc really does justice to what Jack was up to and why Big Sur is as important a book as On the Road.

Keep celebrating Jack. I’m glad the Sampas family has kept the flame alive!

By: Sven, Kerouac, and finding satori on Bixby Beach | Henry Miller Library

Sven, Kerouac, and finding satori on Bixby Beach | Henry Miller Library — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:47:41 +0000

[...] film was created to celebrate the August 14th screening of “One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur,” the fantastic collaboration between Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard. The move traces the [...]