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The best minds of Hollywood are still trying to get a handle on the 1950s Beat Generation. All those drugs, sex, leotards and beards, you know, should make great "cinema." Otherwise, why make this film inspired by one incantatory poem and the
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Five new movies arrived Wednesday and it's Oscar and Top 10 list time with noteworthy movies and performances trickling into Pittsburgh. As always, dates are subject to change, and this list likely will expand, but here are the releases coming our
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Is this-and-that holy, is such-and-such holy? they slur via Jack Kerouac's partially-improvised narration. Their good-natured interrogation is doubtlessly modeled on Ginsberg's Footnote to Howlthat affirmative litany asserting the holiness of cocks,
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Thanksgiving holiday hours The library will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, and closed Thursday and Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The library will once again open with normal hours, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 27.
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In 1955, a 29-year-old poet presented a poem about his generation...And that's how the film of the same name begins. "Howl," starring James Franco as poet Allen Ginsberg and is directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, opened Friday at Dubuque's
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Story continues below Lee Sargent ( leesargent ), "@ Taezar oh I don't agree with that at all, I found one piece a little long & one had less overall impact but all interesting." howmanypandas ( howmanypandas ), "After seeing #Freakonomics Enter the
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While Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl intercut illustrated readings of its titular poem with a re-creation of the legal battles surrounding that work, The Practice of the Wild , John Healey's 52-minute profile of Gary Snyder, represents a
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It was a different time, a time when the powers and reach of our government went to censoring what you read and viewed. It was a time when I Love Lucy, featured a married couple who slept in two different beds because the TV
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Inspired examination of Beat Generation signifier Howl and its era...It's just a bunch of guys trying to get published , says Allen Ginsberg (played by James Franco) at the beginning of the film Howl, the story of Ginsberg's 1955 epic poem about
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54 pm Teresa Peschel Bill Peschel Bill Peschel 's new book, Writers Gone Wild, has just been published...All my life, I wanted to beat the skins, bash the keys, windmill chords like Pete Townshend (that ended at 10 with a knockoff Gibson sunburst I
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