{"id":15765,"date":"2015-04-19T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=15765"},"modified":"2022-06-08T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T14:48:31","slug":"algren-for-real-the-end-is-nothing-the-road-is-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/04\/algren-for-real-the-end-is-nothing-the-road-is-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Algren for Real: ‘The End Is Nothing. The Road Is All’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NELSON ALGREN
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Here he is on the big screen at last, an hour and a half of who Nelson Algren was and what he meant. It’s a documentary with the<\/u> sources — authoritative sources (Kurt Vonnegut and Studs Terkel, for example, who give their personal impressions of the man). Radical sources, too (Paul Buhle for one, who lays out an essential historical perspective). This documentary doesn’t just have the sources, it uses them the way they should be used. Vonnegut, Terkel, Buhle, and the others are allowed to get their say in whole because the filmmakers chose not to produce the cinematic equivalent of a Pop-Tart. They let the story go deep. I’ll have more to say, later, about “The End Is Nothing. The Road Is All.” Meanwhile, this trailer will give you a taste of it. Unfortunately it doesn’t come close to doing the film justice:<\/p>\n

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