Starring Kevin O'Connor, Harris Yulin, Tom Waits, Bulle Ogier, David Johansen, Leon Redbone, Joe Strummer, Dr. John

Screenplay by Rudy Wurlitzer

A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.

1987 San Sebastián International Film Festival — Silver Seashell Award

ROBERT FRANK AND RUDY WURLITZER

“(Robert) Frank has come to be seen as a national treasure.”
Los Angeles Times, 3/15/09

“Rudy Wurlitzer is a major American writer.”
Library Journal

“Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg felt a kinship with Frank and his interest in documenting the fabric of contemporary society … he became the spokesperson for a generation of visual artists, musicians, and literary figures both in the United States and abroad.”
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

“ … there is something of a Rudy Wurlitzer renaissance going down in the pop culture zeitgeist; not only through the Criterion releases of Two-Lane Blacktop and Walker but also through a well-deserved re-examination of Wurlitzer’s long-forgotten work as a masterful novelist.”
Pop Matters

 

“CANDY MOUNTAIN”

“… a small, quirky film, but it easily assumes the weight, ambition and success that many larger films aim for and miss.”
Caryn James, The New York Times

“… a quintessential road movie … a wry, laid-back Heart of Darkness … makes good use of Frank’s remarkable photographic eye and Wurlitzer’s witty, acerbic, and quasi-mystical handling of myth … a resonant reflection on the music business and a remarkable ode to wanderlust – with lots of good music.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader

“… a shaggy dog, hipster road film.”
J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

“Candy Mountain feels like something out of a time capsule, like a relic from a remote but treasured time.”
Hal Hinson, Washington Post

“Another look at Jack Kerouac's myth of the open road as truth, that's admirably co-directed  … The talented duo give this offbeat road movie an in-your-face realistic hipster's comical edge.”
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus’ World Movie Reviews

 

117 min., Color
VHS Edition — 1988

---

HOME