Howl
Cinematography:
Edward LachmanComposer:
Carter BurwellCast:
James Franco, Jon Hamm, Jeff Daniels, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams, Alessandro Nivola, Bob Balaban, Cecilia Foss, Aaron Tveit (more)Plots(1)
Rob Epstein directs this drama based on the obscenity trial faced by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg following the publication of his poem 'Howl'. Set in 1950s San Francisco, the film stars James Franco as the young Ginsberg, who becomes a lynchpin of the Beat generation, alongside the likes of Jack Kerouac (Todd Rotondi) and Neal Cassady (Jon Prescott). Psychedelic animation sequences illustrating the poem are interspersed with courtroom scenes in which Jake Ehlrich and Ralph McIntosh play the opposing lawyers battling over the slippery question of whether or not the poem has sufficient literary merit to redeem its profane content. (Soda Pictures)
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Total artsy wackiness made by artists for artists. You see, the artists of Hollywood decided to turn into a movie this perverse poem from a time when Beatniks were driving America apart and they decided to take a strange approach to it. A court drama alternates with B-list animated scenes and interviews with actors. I couldn’t find anything interesting about it and once they started talking about Moloch it took a lot of effort to watch it until the end…
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