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His rich, dense, and urgent 90-minute montage is designed for anyone and everyone who's curious about where the '60s and '70s came from. (Hint: They came from the '40s and '50s.)

Writer/director Chuck Workman seems an unlikely source for ''The Source.'' He's best known as the creator of those short, furious fusillades of historical Hollywood imagery that intermittently energize soporific Oscar telecasts.

But it turns out that Workman knows his Beats (at one point all the nuances of this all-purpose noun/verb/adjective are economically explored from every point of view). He seems to love and revel in words, poetry, and language as much as his (anti?)heroes do, and he knows how to present them in their best light. The ''American Experience'' format is an ideal showcase for Workman. It gives him a chance to stretch his literary legs. There's room for Johnny Depp to read from Jack Kerouac, Dennis Hopper from William Burroughs, and John Turturro from Allen Ginsberg.Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs are the big three, the suns around which the other writers, artists, and musicians orbit.

Meeting in New York in the '40s, Kerouac and company recognize themselves as desperate refugees from a stifling America that's trying to strangle and suffocate them at the same time.

As it turns out, Eisenhower's lobotomized, suburbanized mainstream is feeling suffocated itself, not knowing why. It's grasping for fresh and vital images that will.

Taken from the article sent by Sam of the Heeeeere's Johnny Depp Club.