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"One Fast Move or I'm Gone" is a Kiaro Obscuro Film Festival
release now available through Microcinema DVD. To order this DVD
and/or other titles distributed by Microcinema, go to:
www.microcinemadvd.com.

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"One Fast Move or I'm Gone" is a Kiaro Obscuro Film Festival
release now available through Microcinema DVD. To order this DVD
and/or other titles distributed by Microcinema, go to:
www.microcinemadvd.com.

He was called the vibrant new voice of his generation -- the
avatar of the Beat movement. In 1957, on the heels of the
triumphant debut of his groundbreaking novel, On The Road, Jack
Kerouac was a literary rock star, lionized by his fans and
devotees. But along with sudden fame and media hype came his
unraveling, and, by 1960, Kerouac was a jaded cynic, disaffected
from the Beat culture he helped create and tortured by self-doubt,
addiction and depression.

Desperate for spiritual salvation and solitude, as well as a
place to dry out, he secretly retreats to Lawrence
Ferlinghetti’s rustic cabin in the Big Sur woods.
But his plan is foiled by his own inner demons, and what ensues
that summer becomes the basis for Kerouac’s
gritty, yet lyrically told, semi-autobiographical novel, Big
Sur.

One Fast Move or I’m Gone:
Kerouac’s Big Sur, takes the viewer back to
Ferlinghetti’s cabin and to the Beat haunts of
San Francisco and New York City for an unflinching, cinematic look
at the compelling events the book is based on. The story unfolds in
several synchronous ways: through the narrative arc of
Kerouac’s prose, told in voice-over by actor and
Kerouac interpreter, John Ventimiglia (of HBO’s
The Sopranos); through first-hand accounts and recollections of
Kerouac’s contemporaries, whom many of the
characters in the book are based on such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
Carolyn Cassady, Joyce Johnson and Michael McClure; by the
interpretations and reflections of writers, poets, actors and
musicians who have been deeply influenced by
Kerouac’s unique gifts like Tom Waits, Sam
Shepa

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