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Naropa University's SWP Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The nonfiction film drama about the young Allen Ginsberg finding his voice, the creation of his groundbreaking poem HOWL, and the landmark obscenity trial that followed will premiere at Sundance this Janurary. James Franco will portray Allen. For more information, visit the Sundance site at http://festival.sundance.org.
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Back in June we featured the first photo from Howl, the film about the 1957 obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg faced after the publication of his poem of the same name. Thanks to FilmSchoolRejects though, we've got three more photos to add to that first one from June. Howl stars James Franco as the poet Allen Ginsberg alongside of Mary-Louise Parker as Gail Potter, Jeff Daniels as Professor...
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{frolic!} (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
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Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Now that the Sundance 2010 line-up is out ( competition and non-competition both released this week), we will start to see some preview images coming out from many of the much-anticipated films. First up is Howl , in which James Franco plays revered beat poet Allen Ginsberg. The story follows Ginsberg as he defends his poem “Howl” during his 1957 obscenity trial. Below, we see not only...
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One Poet's Notes (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
This week, the roster of independent films to be premiered and to contend for prizes at the Sundance Film Festival was announced. More than 100 movies have been chosen for screenings to be held during the festival’s ten days of events, January 21-31. Attendees at Utah’s Park City will have an opportunity to view Howl , one of the more anticipated works, which concerns Allen Ginsberg’s...
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Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Big names turn up in small films hoping to land deals, no-names hoping to score their big-break get their film into Sundance 2010. Howl, the Allen Ginsberg on trial bio-pic, looks interesting, as do a few other dramatic titles. Documentaries...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
As we learned yesterday, Sundance has revealed the first chunk of its lineup , which included Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl . In other words, the film that has James Franco starring as Allen Ginsberg -- when the iconic poet faced an obscenity trial for his poem "Howl." The above picture is one of the first images of the film, released by the Sundance Film Festival, showing...
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Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
With the announcement of the Sundance 2010 lineup, it's time to start seeing images from some of the invited films. Until now, for example, all we've seen of James Franco as poet Allen Ginsberg in Howl has been one photo released back in June. Now here's a new one, and it's very quintessential 'beat poet.' I like it, but really just want a trailer. After the break, a shot of Kristen Stewart...
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/Film (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
With the announcement of the Sundance 2010 lineup, it's time to start seeing images from some of the invited films. Until now, for example, all we've seen of James Franco as poet Allen Ginsberg in Howl has been one photo released back in June. Now here's a new one, and it's very quintessential 'beat poet.' I like it, but really just want a trailer. After the break, a shot of Kristen Stewart...
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Hip Hop Is Read (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... publicly vilified and even imprisoned for his sexual orientation. Outspoken individuals like Allen Ginsberg and George Carlin famously received similar albeit less severe treatment for their expletive antics. A century after Wilde, rap music faces comparably harsh criticism for its explicit, aggressive, violent, misogynistic and, ironically to this analogy (both to Wilde and Ginsberg),...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... of capital punishment, that resulted in the book's landmark obscenity trial in 1965. Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer offered spirited testimony in the book's defense--regrettably not included in the new Grove edition, but front and center in the 1982 Black Cat edition that electro-shocked my world--and in 1966 the Massachusetts Supreme Court found that the book possessed "redeeming...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... of capital punishment, that resulted in the book's landmark obscenity trial in 1965. Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer offered spirited testimony in the book's defense--regrettably not included in the new Grove edition, but front and center in the 1982 Black Cat edition that electro-shocked my world--and in 1966 the Massachusetts Supreme Court found that the book possessed "redeeming...
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3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Pádraig Ó Méalóid. The Beats , Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor et al , Souvenir Press 2009 This is a black and white graphic novel about the Beat writers, mostly written by Harvey Pekar and illustrated by Ed Piskor, with major sections on the three big writers – Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg – and further shorter entries - varying from one page to three or four pages - for many others. It’s entirely...