Howl

Synopsis: It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. 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. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.
Production: Oscilloscope Pictures
  2 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
R
Year:
2010
84 min
$617,334
Website
661 Views


Letter to Carl Solomon.

"I saw the best minds in

my generation

"Destroyed by madness...

hunger hysterical naked

"Escape in the negro streets at dawn

"Looking for a pear fury

"And the angel of lust, head

"The old store celestial

which binds to the stellar dynamo

"The machinery of night

"Being in poverty and rags

"Dark Circle blind and stoned

"He stopped smoking in the supernatural

dark squares

And cold water,

pounds over the roofs of the city

"Contemplating jazz"

Sometimes I am master of myself

when I write.

When I hear... instinct

of sincere tears, yes.

Other times...

in most cases, no.

And "as...

things to read...

wood carving

in search of the best!

I did this in many poems.

Only in rare moments

I feel I have reached a state of...

complete control.

In a piece of "Panic" e...

in a moment or two

in other poems.

My fears began

when I thought...

What my father would say about

what I wrote.

During the creation of "panic"

I played both

then would not have posted it...

I did not want my father

read what... was written, so...

I pretended that I would

publish so...

I could write what I wanted.

"I saw the best minds

my generation

"Destroyed by madness

"Hunger hysterical naked

"Escape into the dark streets

at dawn, looking for a pear fury.

"Lust at the head of an angel

"The old man in disguise

heavenly

"It connects

the stellar dynamo

"The machinery of night

"And that poverty and rags

eye melts and is stoned

"There was smoke in the

supernatural darkness of cold water and homes

"Books on the rooftops

contemplating jazz,

"This universally

passed

"With shining eyes

Cool and crazy

"Dark and bright light

tragedies of the war between scientists

"Those who were expelled from

Gyms

"A fool and obscene

odes published in the windows of the skull,

"That in rooms with stubble

with fear, hiding in his underwear

"Burning money

waste paper

"They heard the horror

beyond the wall

"Those who were captured

with the shaving

"Returning via Laredo

with belts of marijuana for New York,

"This fire mangiavan

repainted in hotel

"Or drank turpentine

in Paradise Alley,

"Death

"Purgatory is the breast

night after night with dreams

"With drugs,

nightmare with open eyes,

Alcohol and f***

and dance and bust without end "

What I read

this book, Your Honor

not much

but it is relevant to our case.

Why not attend the trial?

Because...

transformations are not me, but...

as in all...

processes,

my sudden popularity.

It's my editor,

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who...

was arrested for...

sale of...

obscene material.

I read a sentence

What is Footer

the title of "Scream," which says:

"All these books are published in Heaven."

Frankly I do not understand

but the only thing that matters to us

that has been published

by City Lights Pocket Book Shop.

Ferlinghetti was

sentenced to prison.

I hope not

would be terrible.

- Can you tell me your name please?

- Gail Potter.

His writing has never been occupied?

Yes, of course,

I wrote a lot.

I worked for a radio channel

NBC for 10 years while teaching,

I was the head of civil service

and educational coordinator.

I rewrote... Faust I, "it took me three years

but I did. I re-wrote "Everybody."

Not so funny.

Let me lady, this process

deals with very serious issues.

I wish there was a connection

Mutual of us.

Lady as is the idea

if the book is titled

"Howl and Other Poems"

it has literary value or not?

I believe that has not

no literary value.

Go ahead.

A literary style as can be told

takes the form, language, fluency and clarity.

And I'm talking

only style.

About content

every great literary work,

any written text that can be defined as

literature...

his moral greatness.

And the text in question does not.

I understand.

You can add some other reason?

Yes, the use of language.

Regarding... figurative expressions

are not valid.

This is because the figures of speech

he uses are... vulgar.

You feel like a sewer,

If you read a few things.

I did not lose much time,

I assure you.

In his interrogation.

You can go.

It has more to ask?

You can go.

The defense does not want

question.

- You've done all the questions?

- You can go.

What is

the Beat Generation?

There is the Beat Generation.

Another bunch of guys...

who want to see two publications.

Why not tell me...

when he began writing poetry?

I started writing poetry because...

I was an idiot.

E... My father wrote poetry.

So I started

to write poetry as he

e... Then I went to Columbia University

and there I fell in love

Jack Kerouac.

By Jack...

let me dance.

Until 18 years...

I was a virgin.

I was unable to...

reach a body...

desire.

And "I felt...

enchantment.

And Jack

allowed me to open.

It is a romantic poet.

He taught me that writing

is a fact...

subjective

coming from the same person,

your body,

the rhythm of your breathing,

their everyday language.

In the end, I had developed...

strong momentum...

to confess.

I needed...

show you my feelings!

But he...

would not listen, and then...

I tried another way of expressing them.

One track,

I got sick.

I like it!

Listen:

"I was offered to

refreshments, which I accepted.

"A sandwich of all flesh,

a huge sandwich of human flesh, I noticed

"While chewing,

as a filthy a**hole! "

Is she pretty?

The meat... and the idiot?

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Rob Epstein

Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein, is an American director, producer, writer and editor. Epstein has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.In 1987, Epstein and his filmmaking partner Jeffrey Friedman founded Telling Pictures, a production company and team known for "groundbreaking feature documentaries."Epstein has transitioned from non-fiction documentaries into scripted narratives, producing such biopics as HOWL, his award-winning film about Allen Ginsberg’s controversial poem by the same name (starring James Franco), and Lovelace, the story about the life and trials of pornographic superstar Linda Lovelace (starring Amanda Seyfried). He is openly gay.Epstein is the currently the co-chair of the Film Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, California. more…

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