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Howl is a 2010 American film which explores both the 1955 Six Gallery debut and the 1957 obscenity trial of 20th-century American poet Allen Ginsberg 's noted poem "Howl". The film is written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and stars James Franco as Ginsberg.
Aug 27, 2010 · Howl: Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman. With James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott, Aaron Tveit. As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- 2010-08-27
Sep 29, 2010 · The burning angelheaded hipster in youth. Roger Ebert September 29, 2010. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. A few days after Allen Ginsberg died in 1997, there was a candlelight memorial service in a coffeehouse in Boulder, Colo., just down Pearl Street from Beat Book Shop.
Poet and cultural icon Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) is living in San Francisco in the mid '50s with friends and fellow writers Jack Kerouac (Todd Rotondi) and Neal...
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- Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
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- James Franco
Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and animation that echoes the poem's surreal style.
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Sep 27, 2010 · The film, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, is an exhilarating tribute from one form (cinema) to another (poetry). It takes Ginsberg’s momentous, paradigm-changing poem as its ...
Sep 24, 2010 · All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture. It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial.
