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HOWL
"In San Francisco in 1957 Allen Ginsberg’s epochal (and enduring) poem Howl was put on trial for obscenity. Ron Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Life and Times of Harvey Milk) have made an intelligent, impassioned, multi-layered film about the trial, the poem and the poet as harbingers of social revolution in America. James Franco is uncannily right as the young Ginsberg. The film is built around his marvellous reading of the poem, seemingly unrehearsed, buoyed by an enthusiastic audience and the incantatory scramble of the poet’s words. Re-enacted scenes from the trial succinctly spell out the still-resonant debates. In an imagined interview Ginsberg muses on his own creative process and personal struggles. Passages from the poem are interpreted in bold, hallucinatory sequences of animation." (New Zealand International Film Festival 2010)
Starring Jon Hamm, James Franco, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels, David Strathairn
Directed by Rob Epstein ('Underground Zero', 'Paragraph 175', 'The Celluloid Closet'), Jeffrey Friedman ('Underground Zero', 'Paragraph 175', 'The Celluloid Closet')
Written by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Festivals & Awards Sundance 2010, Berlin 2010, New Zealand 2010
Historical, Drama, Adaptation | 1hr 30mins | Rated (M) | Contains content that may disturb | Origin: USA
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