The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies 1995

8.50

Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies.

1995

The Source

The Source 1999

5.10

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac's death, and Ginsberg's politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage's music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats' meaning and impact.

1999

The Money

The Money 1976

5.40

A prominent businessman's children become the target of a young, unemployed man, who sees them as his ticket to wealth.

1976

The Dozens

The Dozens 1981

1

A young woman (Debra Margolies) just out of prison tries to make a new life in Boston.

1981