One Fast Move Or I'M Gone: Kerouac'S Big Sur

Rated NR; 98min; Director:Curt Worden
Presented by Waterloo Records
From the Alamo website:  In 1957, on the heels of the triumphant debut of his groundbreaking novel, "On The Road", Jack Kerouac was suddenly a literary rock star, lionized by his fans and devotees. But along with 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. He secretly retreats to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's rustic cabin in the Big Sur woods for spiritual and physical renewal. 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 takes the viewer back to that 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 Kerouacs prose, told in voice-over by actor and Kerouac interpreter, John Ventimiglia (of HBO's THE SOPRANOS); through first'hand accounts and recollections of Kerouacs contemporaries; 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 Shepard, Robert Hunter, Patti Smith, Aram Saroyan, Donal Logue and S.E. Hinton; and by stunning visual imagery set to original music composed and performed by recording artist, Jay Farrar of Son Volt, with additional performance by Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie.