fiction.wikisort.org - MoviePull My Daisy is a 1959 American short film directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation.[1][2]
1959 film by Robert Frank
This article is about the short film. For the poem of the same name, see Pull My Daisy (poem).
Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It features poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, artists Larry Rivers and Alice Neel, musician David Amram, art dealer Richard Bellamy, Delphine Seyrig, dancer[3] Sally Gross, and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's son.
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Production
Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results.
Originally intended to be called The Beat Generation, the title Pull My Daisy was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady in the late 1940s. Part of the original poem was used as a lyric in Amram's jazz composition that opens the film.
The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised. Pull My Daisy was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece. It was filmed in Alfred Leslie's loft at Fourth Ave. & 12th St. in Manhattan.[4]
Leslie and Frank discuss the film at length in Jack Sargeant's book Naked Lens: Beat Cinema. An illustrated transcript of the film's narration was also published in 1961 by Grove Press.
Reception
Pull My Daisy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1996, as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
See also
- List of American films of 1959
- List of avant-garde films of the 1950s
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Fiction |
- The Sea Is My Brother (1942)
- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945/2008; with William S. Burroughs)
- The Town and the City (1950)
- On the Road (1957)
- The Subterraneans (1958)
- The Dharma Bums (1958)
- Doctor Sax (1959)
- Maggie Cassidy (1959)
- Book of Dreams (1960)
- Tristessa (1960)
- Visions of Cody (1960)
- Lonesome Traveler (1960)
- Big Sur (1962)
- Visions of Gerard (1963)
- Desolation Angels (1965)
- Satori in Paris (1966)
- Vanity of Duluoz (1968)
- Pic (1971)
- Orpheus Emerged (2002)
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Poetry |
- Pull My Daisy (late 1940s)
- Mexico City Blues (1959)
- The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960)
- Scattered Poems (1971)
- Old Angel Midnight (1973)
- Pomes All Sizes (1992)
- Book of Haikus (2003)
- Book of Sketches (2006)
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- Atop an Underwood (1991)
- Good Blonde & Others (1993)
- Some of the Dharma (1997)
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Writings |
- Moody Street Irregulars (1978–1992)
- Minor Characters (1987)
- Off the Road (1990)
- Door Wide Open (2002)
- You'll be Okay (2007)
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- Beat Generation
- Jack Kerouac School
- Jack Kerouac Alley
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Poetry collections |
- Howl and Other Poems (1956)
- Kaddish and Other Poems (1961)
- Reality Sandwiches (1963)
- Planet News (1968)
- The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1973)
- Mind Breaths (1978)
- White Shroud Poems: 1980–1985 (1986)
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Poems |
- "Pull My Daisy" (late 1940s)
- "A Supermarket in California" (1956)
- "America" (1956)
- "Howl" (1956)
- "Ignu" (1958)
- "Kaddish" (1961)
- "Wichita Vortex Sutra" (1966)
- "September on Jessore Road" (1971)
- Iron Horse (1973)
- "Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox" (1975)
- "Plutonian Ode" (1978)
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- Six Gallery reading
- Hydrogen Jukebox
- International Poetry Incarnation
- Beat Generation
- Beat Hotel
- Central Park be-ins
- Counterculture of the 1960s
- Human Be-In
- National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
- Off the Road
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