On The Road (2012)

They've been trying to make this for years. Francis Coppola (who is still on board as a producer) was going to shoot it in black and white 16mm about twenty years ago.

Has anyone seen Heart Beat, the 1979 film about Kerouac, Neal and Carolyn Cassidy (starring Nick Nolte, John Heard and Sissy Spacek)?

I thought about it, thought about the way the theatre smells, the mix of popcorn and and what they pass off for butter, and how that wafts across the lobby with it's bright colored man-sized posters of what's playing right now, this minute, and the coming attractions that I won't be here for, standing, taking it all in with faint smell of industrial cleaner, over stuffed vacuum, watered down bleach, and urinal cakes, except when those swinging outside doors open and in weaves a hint of cigarette smoke and street life at dusk hitting my already over loaded olfactory, and all I want then is to save this, save it like it will never move, save it like it's the last picture show, the very last theatre on earth and it's going to be that film, the one I know by heart with...

Yeah.

You betcha.

Good or bad I might have to* see it...

*Right after Cosmopolis... =)