Magic trip is a 2011 documentary film directed by alison ellwood and alex gibney, about ken kesey, neal cassady, and the merry pranksters the documentary uses the 16 mm color footage shot by kesey and the merry pranksters during their 1964 crosscountry bus trip in the further bus. Ken keseys legendary crosscountry road trip finally comes to life in this documentary by oscarwinning director alex gibney and alison ellwood. Magic trip follows the road trip of author ken kesey and his. With magic trip, oscarwinning director alex gibney and alison ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the kesey family. This could have been a movie reminiscent of those often celebrated sixties. Alex gibney and alison ellwoods magic trip is a freewheeling portrait of ken kesey and the merry pranksters fabled road trip across america in the legendary magic bus. Revelatory, recently discovered home movie footage of a 1964 crosscountry bus trip undertaken by author ken kesey and his merry band of pranksters provide a vivid portrait of the journey.
Ken kesey s search for a kool place stars stanley tucci the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 30 min, and received a score of 59 out of 100 on. On the way back, i was driving across country in a big old nice station wagon with a couple of my buddies, nibbling on cactus. Ken kesey, neal cassady and the grateful dead star in this rollicking film about the merry pranksters, created from neverbeforeseen footage of their legendary, acidfueled crosscountry road trip in 1965. A portrait of author ken kesey s freewheeling road trip across america with his merry pranksters, immortalized in jack kerouacs on the road. Kesey and the pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. A conversation with the filmmakers behind a new documentary about the seminal 60s bus voyage. Magic trip official movie site starring ken kesey, neal cassady. Nearly 40 years later, filmmakers alison ellwood and alex gibney have made magic trip using film and audio recordings from the journey. You will find in this film that the answer isnt even because. Ken keseys magic bus and the tour of the merry pranksters public. Kesey and the pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, but the film was.
Magic trip 2011, directed by alison ellwood and alex. Ken kesey is introduced to the viewer as a square, an athlete married to his high school sweetheart who ends up going back to a relatively normal lifestyle of a country guy and writer in oregon once the afterglow of the trip has worn. Watch magic trip 2011 full movie free streaming online. Using found footage captured by author ken kesey one flew over the cuckoos nest. Alex gibney and alison ellwood have built a documentary, magic trip, from the 16mm color film the pranksters shot along the way. Rent magic trip 2011 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Gibney and ellwood have succeeded in fashioning it into a coherent film. The magic trip bus rolls once again in new documentary. Rent magic trip 2011 starring stanley tucci and timothy leary on dvd and bluray. Ken kesey s search for a kool place alex gibney and alison ellwoods road, lsd, counterculture documentary magic trip is a film that is hard to wrap my head around. As we were driving along, kennedy began to be killed. Everywhere you went, you looked in peoples eyes and they all felt the same thing. In 1964 when this footage was filmed the country was, as shown in this documentary still in the 1950s.
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