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Summary: Andrei Cordescu, NPR journalist, Romanian immigrant, naturalized American citizen, and newly-licensed driver, sets out on a cross- country road trip. He travels from-sea-to-shining-sea in a red 1968 Cadillac ragtop, exploring the ...
Runtime: 1 h 22 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 597,564
Summary: The Velvet Underground explores the multiple threads that converged to bring together one of the most influential bands in rock and roll.
Runtime: 2 h 01 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: R

Production: Grandelusion
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 300,000
Domestic: $ 220,165
Summary: A portrait of the work and life of controversial film critic Pauline Kael, and her battle to achieve success and influence in the 20th century movie business.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: William S. Burroughs: featuring never before seen footage as well as exclusive interviews with his closest friends and colleagues. Born the heir of the Burroughs' adding machine estate, he struggled throughout his life with addict...
Release Date: December 12, 2010
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 160,000
Domestic: $ 46,380
Summary: A mesmerizing collage of images and audio from the life and work of Jack Smith, the underground filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, and anti-capitalist, who worked in New York from the '60s until his death in 1989. Highli...
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: The history of the American government's war on marijuana in the 20th century.
Runtime: 1 h 20 min
MPAA: R

Country: Canada
Language: English
Domestic: $ 313,039
Summary: The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement wit...
Runtime: 1 h 13 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,816
Summary: As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 617,334
International: $ 997,476
Summary: Crazy Wisdom is the long-awaited feature documentary to explore the life, teachings, and "crazy wisdom" of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, a pivotal figure in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Called a genius, rascal, and social v...
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Runtime: 1 h 26 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Crazy Wisdom Films
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 86,202
Summary: Bob Dylan on tour with the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975; concert footage, documentary interviews and bizarre improvised character scenes.
Runtime: 3 h 55 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: Celebrity confessions about their first sexual experiences.
Runtime: 1 h 14 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 272,371
Summary: Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran.
Runtime: 1 h 22 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: France, United States
Language: English
Summary: "Hare Krishna!" is a documentary on the life of Srila Prabhupada, the 70-year-old Indian Swami who arrives in America without support or money and ignites a worldwide spiritual phenomenon, now known as the Hare Krishna Movement.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 152,284
International: $ 11,102
Summary: Based on the book by Dan Wakefield, the film combines stunning archival footage of New York with interviews of the icons of the day - Kerouac, Ginsberg, Baldwin, Mailer, Basie, etc. Offering modern day perspectives.
Runtime: 1 h 12 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Figaro Films
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 11,882
Summary: A look at the life and work of photographer Elsa Dorfman.
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Runtime: 1 h 16 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 125,227
Summary:
Runtime: 1 h 15 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Canada
Language: English
Domestic: $ 5,869
Summary: The most complete, newly restored version of Nicholas Ray's experimental masterpiece embodies the director's practice of film-making as a "communal way of life." Ray plays himself in the film, serving as mentor, friend, and artist...
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Harper College
Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated. The film charts the development of Burroughs' unique literary style ...
Release Date: April 11, 1984
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English