The Castro Theatre
429 Castro St
415.621.5288
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Courtesy Howl
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Sunday June 27, 2010 (7:30pm)
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$25 - 60
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“Angel-headed hipsters and sodomizing motorcycle saints are just of few of the freaks and geeks that scream to life in Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem "Howl." His incendiary epic landed its publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, of City Lights Bookstore, in federal court for obscenity and introduced an entire nation to the sordid, sublime lives of the best minds of a generation. The poem, the trial, and the poet live again in Howl, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's film showing at the Castro Theater as part of the Frameline Film Festival. In addition to using actual transcripts from the trial and an animation by a former Ginsberg collaborator, Eric Drooker, the film stars one of the best looking freaks/geeks around, James Franco, as the young Ginsberg.”
Daniel Hirsch, Flavorpill
Note:
Film-only tickets are sold out and available on rush, but tickets for the Frameline closing night party (which includes this film screening) are still available.
Frameline34 says:
James Franco shines as a handsome young Allen Ginsberg, making waves with his poem Howl. The film is a hybrid of stories, including the famous Ginsberg reading of Howl at the Six Gallery. It also includes an imagined recreation of an unpublished interview allegedly given to Time in 1957, Howl's obscenity trial in a San Francisco courtroom, and vivid and luminous animation by Ginsberg collaborator Eric Drooker. The extraordinary format adds to a feeling of restlessness, a sense that 1950s America is on the cusp of radical change.
