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Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation is a smartly unconventional look at the 1957 novel that captured a counterculture and continues to resonate with outsiders and inner journey seekers to this very day. Directed by Ebs Burnough (The Capote Tapes), the peripatetic doc includes “never-before-seen material” from the personal archive of Jack Kerouac along with images that provide much-needed context to the sexy author’s postwar milieu. But rather than centering the mythologized man or his alter ego Sal Paradise, Burnough instead takes the inspired […]

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Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation is a smartly unconventional look at the 1957 novel that captured a counterculture and continues to resonate with outsiders and inner journey seekers to this very day. Directed by Ebs Burnough (The Capote Tapes), the peripatetic doc includes “never-before-seen material” from the personal archive of Jack Kerouac along with images that provide much-needed context to the sexy author’s postwar milieu. But rather than centering the mythologized man or his alter ego Sal Paradise, Burnough instead takes the inspired […]

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The American romance with the open road is a story we tell ourselves constantly. It is a myth of freedom, of shedding a settled life for the promise of experience somewhere to the west. Director Ebs Burnough’s documentary, Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation, positions itself as an inquiry into the source code of that myth: Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel, On the Road.

The film sets out to understand why this specific book maintains its powerful hold on the nation’s psyche, acting as a rite of passage for generations of restless souls. Burnough connects the post-war restlessness of the Beat Generation to the questions facing Americans today, asking what it means to hit the road now.

With passages from the novel read by Michael Imperioli providing a steady, rhythmic pulse, the documentary presents itself not as a simple biography but as a multi-layered investigation into a cultural...

The paradoxical pleasure and problem with hitting the road is that you never quite know where it will take you. The same could be said of the latest documentary from Ebs Burnough, which is ambitious in its attempts to stitch Jack Kerouac’s biography through a patchwork exploration of both cultural and social modern America as related to his seminal book On The Road. The result is often fascinating, thanks to the first-person recollections of Kerouac’s friends and sense of humour of his biographers, while the modern-day stories add an emotional vibrancy – but the very nature of Burnough’s attempts at broad inquiry, means this is sprawling and diffuse.

Beyond the famous names, including 10,000 Maniacs’ Natalie Merchant, Josh Brolin (who asserts the book “changed my life”) and Matt Dillon, we are invited along on three regular road trips. In one, Philly teenager Amir is preparing to hit the highway for college.

Maybe it's because of the vast land in North America, how far you can drive without leaving a nation, but the open road has called to many a person. Jack Kerouac's famous novel On the Road certainly inspired many a road trip, and it's no wonder that it still resonates today. A new documentary explores just how much a legacy his story has left, and we've got an exclusive clip. From filmmaker Ebs Burnough (the former White House deputy social secretary and senior advisor to First Lady Michelle Obama), the new documentary Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation features actors Matt Dillon, Josh Brolin, Michael Imperioli, and W. Kamau Bell, among others, discuss their personal connection to Kerouac’s On The Road novel and how it formed their relationship...

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"Kerouac wanted to get out and experience something bigger..." "With all the savage irresponsibility that that comes with." Freestyle Releasing has debuted the trailer for a documentary titled Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, ready for release in theaters this August. It just premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival and it will also play at the Locarno Film Festival in August. Kerouac's Road explores Jack Kerouac's iconic novel "On the Road" through today's lens, as celebrities & travelers reflect on authentic experiences in our digital age, echoing the novel's timeless search for genuine connection. The film introduces us to "on-the-roaders" and other fans of the book. Featuring Josh Brolin, W. Kamau Bell, Matt Dillon, and many more, it reveals a rarely seen side of Kerouac and offers a fresh take on On the Road and its lasting impact on America. In this modern era defined by screens and constant...

Pope Leo Xiv got a special visit from Finding Your Roots writer, host and executive producer Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to learn about his ancestry. Two months after Leo Xiv was elected pope, the findings of his genealogical research were published in the New York Times and revealed some of his famous distant cousins. Gates presented his findings to the pope during a private meeting at the Vatican. Dr. Gates and his group were one of the first audiences to meet with the pope following his Conclave. Following the meeting, Dr. Gates presented some of his takeaways. Most notably, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with famous figures. They are related through a distant maternal ancestor who was born in the 1590s. The stars connected to the pope via this maternal ancestor are: Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau, Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Justin Bieber, Jack Kerouac, and Madonna.

Madonna conveyed her excitement about the discovery that she and Pope Leo Xiv are distant relatives.

PBS’ Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr. shared that Madonna, who has clashed with the Catholic Church ever since the release of her controversial “Like a Prayer” music video in 1989, and Pope Leo are “ninth cousins, various times removed” during an interview with The New York Times.

After tracing the current Pope’s lineage, Gates realized he and Madonna were related through a distant maternal relative born in the 1590s.

“Through one Canadian ancestor, Louis Boucher de Grandpre, who was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, the pope is related to numerous Canadian-derived distant cousins, including Pierre and Justin Trudeau, Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton, Justin Bieber, Jack Kerouac and Madonna,” the PBS show host stated.

Earlier this week, the singer shared this news and her excitement on her Instagram Stories.

In one story, she...

A tracing of Pope Leo Xiv’s family tree has revealed that the first American pontiff is a distant cousin of several North American celebrities, including the pop star Madonna (not to be confused with that Madonna). In addition to the Queen of Pop, the Pope’s distant relatives include Hillary Clinton, Justin Bieber, and Jack Kerouac.

As reported in The New York Times by noted genealogist Henry Louis Gates Jr., much of Pope Leo Xiv’s heritage is Creole from his ancestors in New Orleans, though he also shares French, Italian, and Spanish roots. Some of his French ancestors moved to Quebec in the 1650s, before eventually settling in America (predominantly in New Orleans).

The research identified a common French-Canadian ancestor, Louis Boucher de Grandpre, connecting Pope Leo to a long list of notable figures, which also includes Angelina Jolie and former Canadian Prime Ministers Pierre and Justin Trudeau.

Zach Bryan shot to stardom in 2022 with the album American Heartbreak. The Navy vet signed with Warner Records in 2021 after an honorable discharge to pursue a music career. He released several albums independently but American Heartbreak was his first album with a label. The “Something in the Orange” singer released several more albums.

But he tired of the music industry and indicated that he was done with Warner after fulfilling his initial contract. But now things have changed. He recently re-signed with the label and made another massive deal totaling over $350 million. Keep reading to find out the shocking purchase he made after signing the deal.

Zach Bryan Sells Catalog For Massive Amount

Zach Bryan originally got into the music industry because of his love of writing songs. He writes the majority of his own songs. And now he got a big payday for it.

According to Variety, the country...

When a bright-eyed, 17 year-old Michael Imperioli first moved to New York City in the early ’80s, just as he was beginning to find his footing in East Village’s buzzing arts scene, he strolled into St. Mark’s Books and picked up a book that would change his life forever: “The Diamond Sutra.”

The historic Buddhist text, written in India sometime in the 2nd century Ce and believed to be the world’s earliest printed books, isn’t exactly the literary fare you’d expect to capture the fascination of a teenager in ’80s downtown New York — a subset more likely to be reading the likes of Alan Ginsberg, J.D Salinger and William S. Burroughs. But when Imperioli’s favorite writer Jack Kerouac, another rising literary star at the time, announced his dedication to the Sutra manuscript, and even pledged to read it every single day after reorganizing it into seven daily readings,...

Exclusive: Author Jack Kerouac set an ambitious task for himself when he pondered writing On the Road, his 1957 masterpiece that still reverberates in the American imagination.

“My purpose is to conquer knowledge of the U.S.A.,” he wrote, “to know it as I know the palm of my hand.”

Those words, immodest, carried away with possibility and essentially romantic, are articulated in the new documentary Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation, which makes its premiere this evening at Tribeca Festival in New York. Actor Michael Imperioli voices Kerouac’s writings in the film directed by Ebs Burnough and produced by Burnough, Eliza Hindmarch, and John Battsek. Watch an excerpt from Kerouac’s Road in the exclusive clip above.

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The documentary interweaves “stories of modern-day travelers with insights from those influenced by or connected to the legendary author,” Tribeca’s Jarod Neece writes in the festival program.

The 24th annual Tribeca Film Festival 2025 kicked off Wednesday, June 4, with the world premiere of Billy Joel: And So It Goes. Screening at the Beacon Theatre, the HBO original two-part documentary offers an expansive look into the legendary artist’s life, tracing the love, loss, and personal struggles that profoundly influenced his songwriting.

The opening night of the fest was attended by the film’s producer Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Mariska Hargitay, Whoopi Goldberg, Mira Sorvino, Gary Goetzman, Steve Zahn, Rick Gomez, and many more. Joel, who is recovering from an illness, did not attend tonight.

The festival’s feature film slate includes Rose Byrne and Octavia Spencer starring in Tow; The Best You Can starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick marking their first co-starring roles in 20 years; Rosemead starring Lucy Liu; Dragonfly with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn; and Everything’s Going to be Great starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.

From spring into the start of summer, the festival season keeps on rolling. Cannes just gave a jumpstart to the movie year ahead, but the 24th edition of the Tribeca Festival, happening all over New York City June 4 through 15, is here with another ambitious, genre-crossing lineup. This year’s festival — celebrating film, television, immersive storytelling, music, audio storytelling, iconic movie revivals, and more — boasts nearly 120 features across narrative and documentary forms. Tribeca also boasts a massive shorts program.

The festival, which understandably dropped “Film” from its name in 2022 two decades after starting in 2002 from Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff as a way to boost Lower Manhattan after September 11, offers its most musically inclined programming yet this year. Tribeca launches Wednesday, June 4 with the world premiere of opening nighter “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” an ode to the hit-making piano man. Elsewhere, Miley Cyrus’ visual album “Something...

Spoiler Alert! This story contains details from the season 2 opener of The Walking Dead: Dead City on AMC.

AMC’s starry sequel featuring Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan) and Lauren Cohan (Maggie) returned Sunday with more tales about post-apocalyptic Manhattan, where two factions are fighting for control of the island. Maggie and Negan are trapped on opposite sides.

Here, Morgan — who is joined in season 2 by Gaius Charles, Željko Ivanek, Mahina Anne Marie Napoleon, Lisa Emery, Logan Kim, Dascha Polanco and Kim Coates — explains Negan’s state of mind and whether he actually approves of Lucille 2.0.

Deadline The real world is kind of crappy right now, so I’m curious, does working in this make-believe crappy world feel like an escape for you?

Jeffrey Dean Morgan A little bit, yeah. One of the reasons I became an actor was to escape some real life stuff. And certainly the world of The Walking Dead...

Miley Cyrus’ visual album world premiere will lead the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival line-up.Presented by Okx, the event will run from 4 to 15 June in New York City, and bosses have now unveiled a wide-ranging schedule of documentary, narrative and animated features for the dates – including a documentary produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Other high-profile appearances are set to include performers such as Billy Idol, Becky G and Eddie Vedder will accompany select screenings.Jane Rosenthal, 68, co-founder of the Tribeca Festival and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises, described the long-running New York event as a creative sanctuary ahead of its 2025 run. She was quoted by Variety saying: “Tribeca has always been more than a festival – it’s a home for artists navigating an ever-changing industry and an ever-changing world.“We’re proud of the ecosystem we’ve cultivated and can’t wait to share it with the world this June.”The event will...

The 2025 Tribeca Festival, presented by Okx, has revealed its lineup of documentary, narrative and animated features, including the premiere of Miley Cyrus’ visual album, a Leonardo DiCaprio-produced documentary and films starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney. This year’s fest will run from June 4 to 15 in New York City.

The festival kicks off on June 4 with the previously announced world premiere of “Billy Joel: And So It

Goes,” directed by Emmy winners Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin. The world premiere of Miley Cyrus’ visual album “Something Beautiful,” directed by Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman, Brendan Walter and produced by Tribeca alum Panos Cosmatos (“Beyond the Black Rainbow”), will be followed by an exclusive conversation with Cyrus.

The documentary lineup also features chart-topping performers like Counting Crows and Culture

Club. Billy Idol, Becky G and Eddie Vedder will deliver exclusive performances following the

world premiere of their films, while members of Metallica,...

The Tribeca Film Festival revealed its complete lineup on Wednesday, with a slate of films that features Emmy and Oscar winners as well as a series of music documentaries that will be accompanied by live performances and post-screening Q&As by some of the world’s top artists.

As previously announced, the festival will open with the two-part HBO documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” looking back on the career of the legendary Long Island singer-songwriter. The closing night film will be “Yanuni,” a documentary about indigenous activist Juma Xipaia, who has survived six assassination attempts in her efforts to protect the Amazon and its native people.

Tribeca is also continuing its tradition of music documentaries, with documentaries about artists like Counting Crows, Billy Idol, Eddie Vedder, Metallica, and Becky G being accompanied by live performances and post-screening Q&As by those artists. Miley Cyrus will also be on...

Tribeca Festival 2025 is out with the slate of documentary, narrative and animated features for its 24th edition, a intriguing lineup showcasing music legends, key cultural figures and stories from emerging and established voices. The fest runs June 4-15 in New York City.

Films includes Rose Byrne, Demi Lovato and Octavia Spencer in Tow; The Best You Can with Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick; Rosemead starring Lucy Liu; Dragonfly with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn; and Everything’s Going To Be Great starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.

The world premiere of Billy Joel: And So It Goes will open the festival, which again leans into music documentaries and live acts, including the world premiere of Miley Cyrus’ visual album Something Beautiful, followed by a sit-down with Cyrus. Counting Crows and Culture Club, Billy Idol, Becky G and Eddie Vedder will perform after their films world premiere. Members of Metallica, Depeche Mode,...

Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is now showing on Mubi in many countries.Queer.Anyone visiting William S. Burroughs in Paris while he edited his third novel would have found a scene closer to a bustling film-production office than a lonely writer’s retreat, with a storyboard on the wall and several collaborators beetling away. Burroughs composed Naked Lunch as a series of loosely related, nonchronological “routines”; the story was found in the edit as he rearranged these pieces into their final order. He had the help of friends such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the painter and poet Brion Gysin, who later recalled, “The raw material of Naked Lunch overwhelmed us. [...] Burroughs was more intent on Scotch-taping his photos together into one great continuum on the wall where scenes faded and slipped into one another than occupied with editing the manuscript.”1Gysin—having accidentally discovered what he and...

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Kristen Stewart didn’t just bet on herself. She practically threw her wallet out the window for On the Road. At the peak of her Twilight fame, when Hollywood was throwing checks at her like confetti, Stewart signed on to a film that paid her pennies compared to the blockbuster paydays she was used to. And she had zero regrets.

Back in 2012, Stewart starred in On the Road, a film based on Jack Kerouac’s legendary novel. The movie followed a wild cross-country adventure with Stewart playing Marylou, alongside Garrett Hedlund’s Dean and Sam Riley’s Sal. It was the ultimate road trip movie, packed with rebellion, freedom, and all the restless energy of Kerouac’s words (via Cheatsheet). The film also boasted a stacked cast – Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen, and Elisabeth Moss – but it was still an indie project.

One of the dark horses of the 2025 awards season, Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here” managed to claim the Oscar for best international film on Sunday night from under the nose of long-standing favourite “Emilia Pérez.”

The acclaimed drama became the first Brazilian feature to claim the honor — although several awards pundits suggested the film, a powerful exploration of love and grief set during Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1970s, had a decent swing at landing its other nominations of best actress for Fernanda Torres and — even — best picture.

But the one win for “I’m Still Here” was enough to provoke wild celebrations on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, where Torres, already something of a national hero, had been named an unlikely muse of this year’s carnival.

As it turned out, the timing of “I’m Still Here’s” awards ascendancy couldn’t have been better for its...

Walter Sallesis a humanist filmmaker, thanks to his ability to identify the emotional truths behind complex stories; even if his masterpieces, The Motorcycle Diaries and I’m Still Here,are technically biopics about important historical figures within Brazilian history, they tell relatable stories about family, adolescence, and coming to grips with the future. Salles’ ability to tackle ambitious material from a unique perspective made him perfectly suited to handle a legendary novel of the “Beat generation” that was largely considered to be “unfilmable.” Salles crafted a surprisingly engaging, provocative adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel On the Road, and did so with one of the most impressive ensembles in recent history.

Supernatural has become a cult classic since its debut in 2005. Sam and Dean Winchester have amassed a loyal and devoted following over their fifteen-year run on The CW. It was a mini-horror movie every week that told the story of two brothers. They had a saying in the writers’ room that it’s not a show about monsters; it’s about family.

The relatable themes of family in Supernatural are wrapped up in terrifying tales of witches, ghosts, and werewolves. It touched on a very real fear that washed over the country after September 11th. One that the enemy "is not only out to get us. He could be living among us." The original premise of the show lacked these important elements and wouldn't be the show fans know and love today if Kripke hadn't made some big changes.

Eric Kripke Was Inspired by Urban Legends and Folk Tales

Eric Kripke,...

Taylor Swift gave her fans some big hints regarding the flowering and floundering of her brief relationship with singer Matt Healy on her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department.

Musical Columboes are convinced that her songs But Daddy I Love Him, Guilty as Sin, Fresh Out the Slammer and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived are all inspired by Swift’s liaison with the British frontman of the band The 1975.

The pair were seen together in June 2023, for about a month, following Swift’s split from actor Joe Alwyn (also documented on the album) and the beginning of her high-profile relationship with American footballer Travis Kelce.

Now, it seems Healy is ready to give his version of events. The Sun newspaper reports that his band are preparing their sixth album, and that on it Healy plans to refer to his relationship with the pop superstar.

The title song is reported to...

It may have taken 12 years for Walter Salles to direct another feature after his 2012 adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” but with his awards-buzzy political bio-drama “I’m Still Here,” the Brazillian filmmaker proves that cinema will always remain in his veins. Extolling the power of the form, Salles took to the Criterion Closet recently to share his appreciation for a number of films that have shaped him as an artist and continue to inspire. After starting with Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Andrei Rublev,” Salles went on to select Jim Jarmusch’s absurdist comedy “Stranger than Paradise.”

“I think it was so refreshing to…starting to do films and see that narratives could be actually told in a different manner than the Greeks had teached us at the beginning, you know, the structure with five acts and character arcs and everything else,” said Salles, “and what Jim Jarmusch offers us...

Monica Barbaro, who portrays Joan Baez in James Mangold’s powerful awards-season contender A Complete Unknown, about how Bob Dylan — as played by Timothée Chalamet — put his colossal stamp on our rock ‘n’ roll culture, hails costume designer Arianne Phillips as a “detective” for her ability to track down the source of the thousands of costumes featured in the movie.

Phillips agrees with Barbaro’s moniker. “Absolutely, that’s the job. I say costume designers are people detectives,” she tells me as we walk around the display of costumes and sets from the film on the ground floor of Arizona State University’s Los Angeles campus of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.

The exhibition was assembled by the museum’s staff along with Phillips, A Complete Unknown’s production designer François Audouy, producer Fred Berger, the film’s crafts departments, Searchlight Pictures and Shelter PR.

A photo montage of Bob Dylan,...

Existential horror is a subgenre that deals with ideas of insignificance, isolation, and the unsettling fact that humanity is just a speck in a dark, uncaring universe; in short, it's perfect horror movie fodder. Horror is filled with subgenres that are as basic as "slasher" to as specific and obscure as "screenlife". There are just so many ways to pluck fear and terror out of the world, almost everything can be molded into something frightening. Existential horror is somewhere in the middle of well-known and vague, an unofficial grouping that includes some famous movies.

Existentialism is not a new or unique idea. Dealing with the very aspects of humanity that are unknowable and lonely has long been a subject of art. It's a philosophical viewpoint associated with 19th and 20th-century philosophers like Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. The novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky often includes themes of existentialism in his work and...

People are always on a journey in the films of Walter Salles. His 1998 breakout film Central Station saw an abandoned nine-year-old go looking for the father he’s never known, while 2004’s The Motorcycle Diaries had a carefree young Che Guevara becoming radicalized while searching for the soul of South America. More literally, there’s On the Road (2012), his adaptation of the 1957 novel in which beat writer Jack Kerouac tapped into the exploits of his rather more adventurous friends to send himself on a freewheeling trip through postwar USA.

His new film, I’m Still Here, however, has more in common with 2001’s Behind the Sun, a period piece about two feuding rural Brazilian families at the turn of the 20th century. In both of these films, the trek is more of a moral crusade than a matter of geography, as their protagonists try to confront entrenched and seemingly endless cycles...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s buzziest movies continues with Queer, the ambitious adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ never-completed novel. The A24 drama starring Daniel Craig reteams the Challengers duo of writer Justin Kuritzkes and director Luca Guadagnino.

Queer had its world premiere in August at the Venice Film Festival, screened at major festival galas including at TIFF and New York and had a limited release over Thanksgiving weekend, gaining steam in its expansion ever since. It’s also become an awards magnet for Craig, who was named Best Actor by the National Board of Review and scored Golden Globes and Critics Choice noms.

Queer has been a passion project for Guadagnino, who first read the novel (it was eventually published in 1985) as a teen in Palermo and began writing a script for it at age 21; he says he still has the first...

Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles has been wrestling with languages his whole life. He grew up in Rio de Janeiro and Paris and studied at USC, becoming fluent in his native Portuguese and French plus English. When he followed up his Oscar-nominated and Golden Bear-winning “Central Station” (1998) with “The Motorcycle Diaries” (2004), he became fluent in Spanish.

“I couldn’t possibly do ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ without having an in-depth understanding of Spanish,” said Salles on Zoom, “because directing actors has so much to do with precision, with the capacity to find that one word that can trigger something fresh and new. Whenever you have to rationally extend yourself, create a sentence, as opposed to that specific word that untaps something, you miss an opportunity.”

But after struggling with his 2012 English-language adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” a beloved novel, he did not make another feature film for 12 years. “I’m...

The experience of adapting Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel “On The Road” in 2012 led Walter Salles to learn a valuable lesson: “Admiring something that fascinates you is not enough to adapt the work.” Speaking at the Marrakech International Film Festival, the Brazilian director said he nurtures “mixed feelings” about the adaptation and that making the 2016 doc “Walter Salles on Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang” about the Chinese director led him to “find faith in cinema again.”

“I have very pleasant and rich memories of working with great actors like Viggo Mortensen, who were fascinating artists who touched me,” he continued of his experience of making “On The Road.” ”On the other hand, I learned there must be something visceral for you to dare do something.

Continue reading How “Mixed Feelings” About ‘On The Road’ and Jia Zhangke Doc Led Walter Salles To Make ‘I’m Still Here’ at The Playlist.

Cocksucker Blues.In 1957, Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank was on the road. He was finishing two years of cross-country journeys, his wife and two young children in tow, snapping the 28,000 grainy black-and-white pictures that he would distill into the 83 images in his book The Americans. A culture-shifting landmark, with its deglamorized, deeply ambivalent view of the country, The Americans was a bracing and poetic antidote to the clarity and sentimentality of the images in magazines like Life, Vogue, and Fortune, where Frank worked as a freelancer after coming to the United States in 1947. “If you dig out-of-focus pictures, intense and unnecessary grain, converging verticals, a total absence of normal composition, and a relaxed, snapshot quality,” noted Popular Photographer editor James Zanutto, “then Robert Frank is for you.” The same year, Jack Kerouac published his own American odyssey, On the Road, a jazz-like literary improvisation quickly acclaimed by the New York Times...

Hollywood writing partnerships dissolve for many reasons. There may be creative disagreements, personality conflicts, workload imbalances. For the celebrated author Dave Eggers and his younger brother Toph, who’d had a run of collaborations, the rupture in their bond could perhaps be attributed to all these things. But, mainly, to far deeper, darker troubles.

“For so many years I was locked in a certain relationship with Dave, and I just couldn’t see fault in him — and then, once I did, it flipped,” says Toph over one of several long meals at diners and delis across L.A.’s Eastside.

Dave emerged as a literary phenomenon a quarter-century ago with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, his memoir about raising Toph after both of their parents died of cancer within weeks of each other. The book became a generational touchstone for its joking-but-not, manic-expressive style — evidenced in the title itself,...

Zach Bryan is caught up in a scandal after breaking up with Brianna Lapaglia. He seemingly sent a subtle message to his ex amid her shocking accusations against him. Keep reading for the latest on the messy split.

What Happened Between Zach Bryan & Brianna Lapaglia?

Zach Bryan was rumored to be dating podcaster Brianna “Chickenfry” Lapaglia in May 2023 after the two met at the Academy of Country Music Awards. She confirmed on her podcast in July that the rumors were true and they were dating.

The couple spent much of the following year tied at the hip. But rumors of trouble swirled over the summer. Brianna Lapaglia shuts the rumors down. But Zach Bryan abruptly confirmed the end of the relationship just weeks later with an Instagram post. Lapaglia was reportedly blindsided by the announcement. She recently revealed many sordid details about her ex. She said that they had previously...

No matter how famous one can be or irrespective of the wealth that life can throw at you, there will always be a ton of struggles to deal with. The life Madonna lived with her family was remarkable, and the relationship she shared with her siblings was as tight as it could get.

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Unfortunately, the 66-year-old singer of the 1984 hit Material Girl recently lost her brother, Christopher Ciccone. Madonna was one of eight siblings and she happens to be amongst the eldest ones from the Ciccone family.

Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone lost his battle against cancer

According to The Guardian, Christopher Ciccone, who is a couple of years younger than Madonna passed away on October 4, 2024, in Michigan. It was stated that the man of many talents had cancer, but it isn’t stated for how long the musician...

Johnny Depp’s bohemian fantasy Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Madness starts at full throttle, with the artist Amelio Modigliani (Riccardo Scamarcio) breaking up the Café Dome, then exiting on a trolley straight through their stained-glass window, smashing the Art Nouveau rosebuds to bits while still clutching an ice bucket with a souvenired bottle of champagne in it. A waiter pursues him through the smashed window, brandishing a meat cleaver. Seeing the knife, the gendarmes arrest him; Modi is home free.

As an art happening, it’s the kind of thing that is a thousand times more fun in the retelling than it would have been for the people picking glass out of their hair, let alone the ones who had to sweep up the mess afterward. Of course, they’re just the little people. Life as an impoverished artist wasn’t really an endless romp, either. Modi,...

This year’s festival is rich in impressive female leads, including Kidman, Gaga and Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton bonding for Almodóvar, while a strong documentary lineup ranges from Trump to Yoko Ono

In a summer when oppressive heat has turned the Venice Lido into a sauna, the stars at the city’s annual film festival were as numerous as the droplets of sweat. Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, George and Brad, the list goes on… Interestingly, many A-listers were working in English-language productions by auteurs from Spain (Pedro Almodóvar), Italy (Luca Guadagnino), Chile (Pablo Larraín), Greece (Athina Rachel Tsangari), Mexico (Alfonso Cuarón)… It shows how much cinema’s mainstream is fuelled today by global voices, although it raises the question of where this leaves the world’s national cinemas once their biggest names move abroad.

One director who has returned to his national roots is Brazilian film-maker Walter Salles.

The first and last written words of writer William S. Burroughs form the basis of this superb adaptation of Queer, a novel written in the early ’50s that, for myriad reasons, remained unpublished until 1985. At the time, its belated arrival coincided with a major resurgence of interest in Burroughs, the oldest and longest surviving member of the original Beat Generation writers, the others being Jack Kerouac (who never made it out of the ’60s) and Allen Ginsberg. By then, Burroughs had received long-overdue recognition as the godfather of the counterculture; heroin was his drug of choice, which assured his long-standing association with rock ’n’ roll, but his beatification by hard-drug fetishists often overshadowed the astonishing quality — not to mention foresight — of his writing.

Landing three years before Ted Morgan’s for-a-long-time-definitive biography Literary Outlaw (until Barry Miles’ Call Me Burroughs followed it 10 years ago), Queer was the Rosetta Stone that...

When one of your dearest couple friends, Lysa and Grant Heslov, move to London for the new Paramount+ series The Department, starring Michael Fassbender — which Grant and George Clooney’s company Smokehouse Pictures is producing — there is only one thing left to do. Get yourself a plane ticket.

In 10 years, I have never been able to get one ticket using air miles on the days that I needed. Not once. Didn’t believe it was possible. That is until I found David Fleming, aka The Miles Guy (who was born into Hollywood Royalty; his grandfather was famed publicist Warren Cowan). David specializes in helping people use their frequent air miles and credit card points for flights. As he puts it, “there are a lot of people who have a ton of points but don’t know how to use them effectively. That’s where I come in.” Done: British Airways first-class round trip to London.

Spoiler Alert: This interview contains plot details for the film Longlegs

Oz Perkins didn’t mean to scare you. Despite creating one of the year’s most jarring atmospheric horror thrillers, Perkins swears his cinematic concoction was cool and (allegedly) accidental. Longlegs, written and directed by Perkins, follows intuitive FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe), who is tasked with investigating a series of gruesome unsolved murders spanning from the 1970s to the present Clinton era of the 1990s being carried out by a potential supernatural entity known as Longlegs (Nicolas Cage).

Here, with Deadline, Perkins unpacks creating nuanced character dynamics, his fascination with women in horror and using his own narrative to create scares.

Deadline: First off, this movie is terrifying. How do you sleep at night knowing that you’ve dropped a movie that scares the hell out of everybody?

Oz Perkins: I subscribe to the same ideology...

In a news photo circulated two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un took turns driving a Russian-made limo in Pyongyang, North Korea. The sight of two dictators tooling around was unsettling — but also ripe for a particular type of mockery. Soon after the photo appeared, a meme began making the rounds with that shot and, above it, the lettering “Sonic Youth LP” — the latest addition to the never-ending tradition of saluting, honoring, or parodying the cover of the now defunct band’s album Goo.

Released in 1990, Goo — Sonic...

Two producers who attempted to make a biopic about Roberto Clemente are now suing the baseball legend’s sons, alleging that the family twice sold the rights to Clemente’s life story.

Producers Jonah Hirsch and Angel Munoz announced plans in March 2023 to adapt the family-written biography, “Clemente: The True Legacy of an Undying Hero,” into a feature film. But after the announcement, the pair discovered that Thomas Tull, the former CEO of Legendary Pictures, was developing his own Clemente feature.

Legendary, which produced “42,” starring Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson, had optioned Clemente’s life rights in 2015, intending to produce a film based on the David Maraniss biography “Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero.”

According to the suit, the Clemente family initially claimed that Legendary had failed to make a payment, causing the life rights to revert back to the family. But that turned out to be untrue,...

Caleb Carr, whose bestselling 1994 novel The Alienist made the author a household name who saw the book adapted into a 10-episode limited series on TNT, died of cancer Thursday at his home in Cherry Plains, New York. He was 68.

His death was announced by his brother Ethan Carr to The New York Times.

Carr was born on August 2, 1955, into a New York City family haunted by violence and abuse: His father was Lucien Carr, a Beat Generation journalist convicted of manslaughter for the 1944 killing of what today would be deemed a sexual predator. The fatal stabbing, which made headlines and history not least because Lucien’s friend and Columbia University classmate Jack Kerouac helped dispose of the knife, was depicted in the 2013 film Kill Your Darlings starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan.

Caleb Carr would later say that the incident, along his own childhood abuse at the hands of his father,...

As Gov. Phil Murphy continues his push to woo film and television production to New Jersey, the state economic development authority today approved a partnership with a $1+ billion studio complex including 23 sound stages set to rise in the Bergen Point neighborhood of Bayonne, New Jersey at the site of a former Texaco oil refinery.

The project will break ground this fall, said Arpad Busson, the New York-based French financier whose Togus Urban Renewal is spearheading the project along with Rothschild in the UK and New York-based Moore Group. He said construction will take two years. Called 1888 Studios, after the year New Jersey-native Thomas Edison filed a patent for the motion picture camera, the 1.5 million square feet structure designed by architecture firm Gensler will look to evoke imagery of Golden Age Hollywood, spanning 55 acres and including comprehensive on-site production services, security, and a waterfront park and promenade accessible to the public.

Kristen Stewart has been in the limelight since her pre-teen after gaining recognition as Jodie Foster’s on-screen daughter in Panic Room (2002). After working on the big screen for a while, she garnered global prominence for her role as Bella Swan in the Twilight saga. While she cemented herself as one of Hollywood’s most recognized actresses, she is just another girl who also has a crush on other celebrities including DC actress, Amy Adams.

Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan in a still from Twilight

Amy Adams played the role of Lois Lane opposite Henry Cavill’s Superman in Man of Steel (2013). However, both actresses worked together in the 2012 film, On the Road which is how the former got to know the latter.

Kristen Stewart Had a Crush on DC Actress, Amy Adams

Adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s iconic novel of the same name, the 2012 film, On the Road revolves...

“I just miss Robbie, period,” says Martin Scorsese, talking about a professional and personal relationship with Robbie Robertson that lasted 47 years. “The friendship, the work, the tales he told — all of it.”

Although the filmmaker has already declared his intentions to shoot a new project in 2024 — an adaptation of “A Life of Jesus” by the late Japanese author Shūsaku Endō — Scorsese still has his head very much in his darkly poetic “Killers of the Flower Moon” and the late, great musical collaborator and friend who composed its haunting score.

“It meant a lot to both of us that we did this project together,” Scorsese told Variety on Friday, noting that “’Killers of the Flower Moon’ was a kind of culmination” of their entire working relationship.

The director’s epic Western crime drama chronicling the true story of the reign of terror waged against the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma starring Leonardo DiCaprio,...

Although directing The Godfather trilogy is about as great of an achievement as any director could hope for, Francis Ford Coppola would be renowned as one of the greatest filmmakers of all-time even if it weren't for his trio of Mario Puzo adaptations. Outside of gangster films, Coppola has experimented with various genres, from biopics, romantic comedies, family films, and thrillers, showing that The Godfather only represents a fraction of his interests. Coppola’s ambition often got the better of him, and many of his grandest ideas never made it to the production stage. Although Coppola planned to make an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s highly influential coming-of-age novel On the Road before The Godfather was even published, it was sadly a project that would keep eluding him.

Universal Pictures Content Group has boarded “The Beat of a Nation: Kerouac’s Road,” a feature documentary directed by Ebs Burnough (“The Capote Tapes”) about Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel “On the Road.”

Produced by London-based banner Ventureland, the documentary starts filming this week and sees Burnough using the prism of “On the Road” to depict the turmoils of today’s political and cultural landscape in the U.S.

Burnough is the former White House deputy social secretary and senior advisor to First Lady Michelle Obama. He made his directorial debut with the documentary “The Capote Tapes,” which world premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and explores the impact of Truman Capote’s explosive unfinished novel “Answered Prayers.”

“The Beat of a Nation: Kerouac’s Road” is produced by John Battsek and Eliza Hindmarch of Ventureland, in collaboration with the Kerouac Estate, for which Jim Sampas will executive produce.

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Michael Imperioli may be best known for playing Christopher Moltisanti on the TV series The Sopranos, but he has over 100 other screen acting credits and several writing credits (including multiple episodes of The Sopranos). His first writing credit came on 1999 crime drama Summer of Sam (watch it Here), which was directed by Spike Lee… and during an interview for the documentary Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories), Imperioli revealed that he visited a witch and used otherworldly means in an effort to get Summer of Sam into production!

Scripted by Imperioli, Lee, and Victor Colicchio, Summer of Sam has the following synopsis: During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders. The philandering Vinny unwittingly almost becomes a victim of the psychopath, and soon he and numerous people in his orbit — including his wife,...