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For a road movie, ROUTE ONE/USA features few shots of the open road itself. Instead, we are treated to a series of stops along the way—an Indian reserve in Maine, Walden Pond, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, a Georgia diner, Thanksgiving dinner at a homeless shelter, and evangelical churches that preach the “truth” about ...
Jan 23, 1991 · Route One USA: Directed by Robert Kramer. With Jesse Jackson, Paul McIsaac, Pat Robertson. Doc (McIsaac), back from a decade in in Africa, and filmmaker Kramer, decide to follow Route 1, from the Canadian border all the way to the tip of Florida.
Aug 21, 2020 · In 1988, nearly a decade after leaving the US, Robert Kramer and his friend and frequent collaborator Paul “Doc” McIsaac (Ice, Doc’s Kingdom), a physician back after working in Africa, spent five months together traveling the length of Route 1 from the Canadian border to Key West.
Sep 2, 2021 · Robert Kramer’s Route One/USA (1989) is often categorized as a road movie or a diary film about two expats returning for a tour of their home country, to look for America. But this film is nothing so neat and tidy, for neither is its subject.
Aug 19, 2020 · Robert Kramer (1939-99), an American filmmaker more highly regarded in his adopted country of France than at home, made his four-hour magnum opus, “Route One/USA,” as a tourist in his native...
Route One is the first major U.S. highway. 5000 km along the Atlantic coast, from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida. Doc, a physician who spent many years in Africa, returns to the U.S. and decides to reconnect with his home country by walking the legendary Route One.
On the road again, two uneasy riders: Doc (McIssac), back from ten years in Africa, and independent film maker Kramer, aging liberals who decide to follow Route 1, from the Canadian border through New England to Miami.
