Ed Lachman and New York remember Robert Frank: "Robert was the truest of poets but without words...his heart, mind and eye will always be missed...." Photo: Ed Bahlman
Robert Frank died on September 9, in Inverness, Nova Scotia, at the age of 94. He was the director of Me And My Brother on Julius and Peter Orlovsky, co-written by Sam Shepard; an infamous Rolling Stones documentary; Candy Mountain with Rudy Wurlitzer, and the short Pull My Daisy with Alfred Leslie, written by Jack Kerouac. Robert Frank, best known for his photography book The Americans, has been the subject of two recent documentaries.
The last time I saw Robert Frank and his wife June Leaf, was on June 1. They were sitting on the bench pictured here on Bleecker Street ... Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
There is Laura Israel’s Don't Blink: Robert Frank, shot by Edward Lachman and Lisa Rinzler, featuring archival footage of Allen Ginsberg,...
Robert Frank died on September 9, in Inverness, Nova Scotia, at the age of 94. He was the director of Me And My Brother on Julius and Peter Orlovsky, co-written by Sam Shepard; an infamous Rolling Stones documentary; Candy Mountain with Rudy Wurlitzer, and the short Pull My Daisy with Alfred Leslie, written by Jack Kerouac. Robert Frank, best known for his photography book The Americans, has been the subject of two recent documentaries.
The last time I saw Robert Frank and his wife June Leaf, was on June 1. They were sitting on the bench pictured here on Bleecker Street ... Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
There is Laura Israel’s Don't Blink: Robert Frank, shot by Edward Lachman and Lisa Rinzler, featuring archival footage of Allen Ginsberg,...
- 9/15/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In 1961, Shirley Clarke finished directing her first feature film and debuted The Connection at the Cannes Film Festival to much acclaim.
Previously, Clarke had begun her creative career as a dancer before moving on to direct many well-respected short experimental films, such as 1958’s Bridges-Go-Round. Clarke had always aimed her sights high with her career and, despite the improbability of a woman directing an independent feature film in the early 1960s, she accomplished just that.
The Connection was originally a play written by Jack Gelber and performed by New York City’s Living Theatre in 1959. The plot revolves around a group of junkies waiting around one afternoon for their drug dealer to arrive.
Clarke had seen and loved the play, but it was her brother-in-law — theater critic Kenneth Tynan — who convinced her to make a film of it. Money was raised through Lewis Allen, a theater investor who wanted to move into producing films.
Previously, Clarke had begun her creative career as a dancer before moving on to direct many well-respected short experimental films, such as 1958’s Bridges-Go-Round. Clarke had always aimed her sights high with her career and, despite the improbability of a woman directing an independent feature film in the early 1960s, she accomplished just that.
The Connection was originally a play written by Jack Gelber and performed by New York City’s Living Theatre in 1959. The plot revolves around a group of junkies waiting around one afternoon for their drug dealer to arrive.
Clarke had seen and loved the play, but it was her brother-in-law — theater critic Kenneth Tynan — who convinced her to make a film of it. Money was raised through Lewis Allen, a theater investor who wanted to move into producing films.
- 9/9/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
BAMcinématek pays screen tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright - True West: Sam Shepard on Film Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Sam Shepard, who died on July 27, 2017 at the age of 73, will be honored by BAMcinématek in New York with True West: Sam Shepard on Film.
Wim Wenders' Don’t Come Knocking and Paris, Texas (BAFTA Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for Shepard); Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nomination for Shepard's portrayal of Chuck Yeager); Graeme Clifford's Frances; Daniel Petrie's Resurrection; Terrence Malick's Days Of Heaven; Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, co-written by Shepard; Robert Altman's adaptation of Fool For Love; Robert Frank's Me And My Brother (text by Shepard, poems by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky); Shirley Clarke's video of Shepard's Tongues performed by Joseph Chaikin, and Far North, directed by Sam Shepard will be screened.
Sam Shepard, who died on July 27, 2017 at the age of 73, will be honored by BAMcinématek in New York with True West: Sam Shepard on Film.
Wim Wenders' Don’t Come Knocking and Paris, Texas (BAFTA Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for Shepard); Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nomination for Shepard's portrayal of Chuck Yeager); Graeme Clifford's Frances; Daniel Petrie's Resurrection; Terrence Malick's Days Of Heaven; Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, co-written by Shepard; Robert Altman's adaptation of Fool For Love; Robert Frank's Me And My Brother (text by Shepard, poems by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky); Shirley Clarke's video of Shepard's Tongues performed by Joseph Chaikin, and Far North, directed by Sam Shepard will be screened.
- 9/14/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
If you, at the very least, have a passing interest in the Beat Generation, then you will definitely get a kick out of this oddball short film from 1959 called “Pull My Daisy.” The film stars Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky as themselves, more-or-less, and they’re invited into the home of a railway brakeman whose wife had invited a bishop over for dinner. After getting bombarded with a barrage of questions from the beat poets (“Is a cockroach holy?), the bishop leaves in a bit of a huff, much to the dismay of the wife. The short is set in the Lower East Side of New York and it’s shot in a very loose, casual, off-the-cuff style. The entire film is narrated by novelist/poet Jack Kerouac who also wrote the short. It was shot and directed by photographer Robert Frank and Abstract Expressionist painter Alfred Leslie, and according to Frank,...
- 5/20/2014
- by Ken Guidry
- The Playlist
Reviewer: James van Maanen
Ratings (out of five): *** 1/2
Do the names Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky and William Burroughs set your heart aflutter? (My upstairs neighbor runs the other direction when he hears the roster.) For some, these are/were the kind of guys you love to read but wouldn't want to live with. You get the chance to do the latter, possibly as closely as you'd care to, in the new documentary The Beat Hotel that takes us back to the beatnik/bohemian Paris of the period between 1957 - 1963 and to the shabby (but hardly chic) little hotel where they, and others of their ilk, resided.
Ratings (out of five): *** 1/2
Do the names Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky and William Burroughs set your heart aflutter? (My upstairs neighbor runs the other direction when he hears the roster.) For some, these are/were the kind of guys you love to read but wouldn't want to live with. You get the chance to do the latter, possibly as closely as you'd care to, in the new documentary The Beat Hotel that takes us back to the beatnik/bohemian Paris of the period between 1957 - 1963 and to the shabby (but hardly chic) little hotel where they, and others of their ilk, resided.
- 7/18/2012
- by weezy
- GreenCine
Is the new film about Allen Ginsberg and the Howl obscenity trial a little too sane?
Allen Ginsberg, who set out to change the world so that he could fit into it, was admitted to the Columbia Psychiatric Institute, in upper Manhattan, in 1949. He was 23. On his first day there, he met Carl Solomon, two years younger but already bearing a history of mental imbalance. Solomon was well-read, with a special interest in the French symbolist writer Antonin Artaud, who had died in a lunatic asylum the previous year, and who Solomon believed had appointed him his representative in America.
The two psychiatric cases sized each other up. "I'm Prince Myshkin", Ginsberg said, alluding to the gentle anti-hero of Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot. The reference would have escaped most inmates, but Solomon got it. "And I'm Kirilov", he replied (from The Possessed). A friendship had begun, which would be immortalised in a declamatory,...
Allen Ginsberg, who set out to change the world so that he could fit into it, was admitted to the Columbia Psychiatric Institute, in upper Manhattan, in 1949. He was 23. On his first day there, he met Carl Solomon, two years younger but already bearing a history of mental imbalance. Solomon was well-read, with a special interest in the French symbolist writer Antonin Artaud, who had died in a lunatic asylum the previous year, and who Solomon believed had appointed him his representative in America.
The two psychiatric cases sized each other up. "I'm Prince Myshkin", Ginsberg said, alluding to the gentle anti-hero of Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot. The reference would have escaped most inmates, but Solomon got it. "And I'm Kirilov", he replied (from The Possessed). A friendship had begun, which would be immortalised in a declamatory,...
- 2/12/2011
- by James Campbell
- The Guardian - Film News
By Christopher Stipp
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Sanctum and The Mechanic - Advance Screenings
I haven’t heard anything about these films.
Whether the buzz is great, whether the buzz is tepid, I couldn’t tell you. That’s exactly why I’m looking forward to sending some of you guinea pigs to see the latest from Jason Statham on Tuesday, January 25th at 7 p.m. at Harkins Tempe Martketplace and then on February 1st at 7 p.m. at Harkins Tempe Marketplace as well.
It’ll be a 2 for 1 if you like or, if you so choose, you can pick one or the other. Either way, you’ll be seeing either the latest from the brawniest Englishman this side of the Atlantic or the latest creation blessed by the wizard himself,...
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Sanctum and The Mechanic - Advance Screenings
I haven’t heard anything about these films.
Whether the buzz is great, whether the buzz is tepid, I couldn’t tell you. That’s exactly why I’m looking forward to sending some of you guinea pigs to see the latest from Jason Statham on Tuesday, January 25th at 7 p.m. at Harkins Tempe Martketplace and then on February 1st at 7 p.m. at Harkins Tempe Marketplace as well.
It’ll be a 2 for 1 if you like or, if you so choose, you can pick one or the other. Either way, you’ll be seeing either the latest from the brawniest Englishman this side of the Atlantic or the latest creation blessed by the wizard himself,...
- 1/21/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
By Christopher Stipp
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The Dilemma -Advance Screening
After all the brouhaha concerning whether Vince Vaughn’s character could say whether a car was or was not “ghey” (spelled the way the Internet intended) the movie is finally here to say once and for all if a vehicle is capable of having a sexual preference. Yes, I know, these are probably the same radicals who think that censoring Huck Finn of its nasty n-words was a good idea. It isn’t and it’s a form of censorship and good for Ron Howard for keeping the joke in tact. In fact, I may even buy a ticket just for pushing aside those who think he should have excised it from the film.
For those of you...
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The Dilemma -Advance Screening
After all the brouhaha concerning whether Vince Vaughn’s character could say whether a car was or was not “ghey” (spelled the way the Internet intended) the movie is finally here to say once and for all if a vehicle is capable of having a sexual preference. Yes, I know, these are probably the same radicals who think that censoring Huck Finn of its nasty n-words was a good idea. It isn’t and it’s a form of censorship and good for Ron Howard for keeping the joke in tact. In fact, I may even buy a ticket just for pushing aside those who think he should have excised it from the film.
For those of you...
- 1/7/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
Chicago – James Franco gave a riveting performance in Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours” that is likely to earn one of the best actors of his generation an Academy Award nomination in a few weeks, but it wasn’t his only stellar turn in 2010. He also thoroughly delivered as the legendary poet Allen Ginsberg in the hybrid “Howl,” a film that’s part poem, part courtroom drama, and part history lesson. It doesn’t always come together but it’s worth seeing just for Franco’s work and the strength of the source material alone.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
The name of the film refers to Ginsberg’s legendary 1955 poem, one that not only inspired an increasingly important cultural movement but nearly got its author thrown in jail. Over half a century after its release, “Howl” still has incredible power, something obviously recognized by writer/directors Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman as they eschew the...
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
The name of the film refers to Ginsberg’s legendary 1955 poem, one that not only inspired an increasingly important cultural movement but nearly got its author thrown in jail. Over half a century after its release, “Howl” still has incredible power, something obviously recognized by writer/directors Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman as they eschew the...
- 1/6/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A scheduling glitch created the following conundrum: Best Generation poet and Allen Ginsberg's longtime mate, Peter Orlovsky, who died in June, was remembered on Wednesday at St. Mark's Church. Meanwhile the New York premiere of "Howl," the new movie starring James Franco with Peter (Aaron Tveit) in a small role took place a few blocks across town at the IFC Center. Having filled the prestigious slot of opening night film at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the anticipation was high for this movie: part animation, part courtroom drama, part period piece about the creation of the iconic beat poem and the censorship trial for obscenity that followed its 1956 City Lights publication. An event in beat style, the memorial featured performances by Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Gordon Ball, Bob Rosenthal, Hal Willner, Simon Pettet, Rosebud Pettet, Ed Sanders and anecdotes remembering...
- 9/24/2010
- by Regina Weinreich
- Huffington Post
Maybe There's No Brokeback Mountain Or Milk, But There's Also No I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
The fall movie season is upon us, and while we've already uncovered pretty much everything gay on TV, we haven't yet taken a look at what's gay in theaters over the next few months. But that's partly because there usually isn't enough to fill up a page, much less an entire movie preview article. Sadly, that looks to be the case this fall.
Nonetheless, with that in mind, I've dispatched a squad of AfterElton flying monkeys to poke around and see what they can find. And to make fun of the rest.
What did they learn? For starters, Betty White isn't as nice as she seems...
September
Easy A
September 17
What's it about? Nice girl gets bad rep pretending to sleep with geeky guys
What's gay? Dan Byrd plays Brandon, a gay...
The fall movie season is upon us, and while we've already uncovered pretty much everything gay on TV, we haven't yet taken a look at what's gay in theaters over the next few months. But that's partly because there usually isn't enough to fill up a page, much less an entire movie preview article. Sadly, that looks to be the case this fall.
Nonetheless, with that in mind, I've dispatched a squad of AfterElton flying monkeys to poke around and see what they can find. And to make fun of the rest.
What did they learn? For starters, Betty White isn't as nice as she seems...
September
Easy A
September 17
What's it about? Nice girl gets bad rep pretending to sleep with geeky guys
What's gay? Dan Byrd plays Brandon, a gay...
- 9/10/2010
- by Michael Jensen
- The Backlot
In the September 2010 issue of Vanity Fair, the exhaustingly energetic actor/author/etc. James Franco describes his journey into the character of Allen Ginsberg, whom he portrays in the upcoming film Howl. As Franco points out, the portly-Buddha phase of Ginsberg’s middle years is familiar to most of us, but his younger persona is more of a mystery. “To play the young Ginsberg, you, the actor, must be slim and clean-shaven and must dye your hair black—your full head of hair. You must wear thick-framed glasses. You must apply prostheses to your ears to make them stick out.” The online version of this article is accompanied by a promotional still from Howl. It is modeled on a famous image of Ginsberg and his lover Peter Orlovsky (the ostensible subject of the poem “Howl”) shot by Harold Chapman. In this video, from the Web site of Britain’s Guardian newspaper,...
- 8/18/2010
- Vanity Fair
Oscilloscope Laboratories sent over the poster for Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg and centered on the public obscenity trial that brough Ginsberg's book length poem "Howl" into the mainstream.
The trailer debuted recently (and I've included it in HD at the bottom of this post) at which time I referenced my B+ review from the Seattle International Film Festival... here's that snippet again: The biggest mistake you could make would be to go into Howl thinking you are in for a Ginsberg documentary. It's called Howl for a reason. Sure, you'll learn a little about Ginsberg's relationships with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and his companion Peter Orlovsky, but you'll learn of them as they pertain to Ginsberg and his path to "Howl." Those that have a knowledge of both "Howl" and Ginsberg will have a much more immediate reaction to the film...
The trailer debuted recently (and I've included it in HD at the bottom of this post) at which time I referenced my B+ review from the Seattle International Film Festival... here's that snippet again: The biggest mistake you could make would be to go into Howl thinking you are in for a Ginsberg documentary. It's called Howl for a reason. Sure, you'll learn a little about Ginsberg's relationships with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and his companion Peter Orlovsky, but you'll learn of them as they pertain to Ginsberg and his path to "Howl." Those that have a knowledge of both "Howl" and Ginsberg will have a much more immediate reaction to the film...
- 7/15/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Javier Bardem in Biutiful A pair of trailers recently debuted as Empire is the first on the scene with an international trailer for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful starring Javier Bardem. Biutiful debuted at Cannes this year and is still yet to be picked up by a domestic distributor, but it was one of my favorite films from this year's festival. Certainly, like other Inarritu films it is still a downer, but the film beautifully bookends itself giving viewers more than depression to hold on to as they leave the theater. In my review from Cannes I opened with: Cancer, child abuse, drugs, exploited Chinese workers and more are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the misery writer-director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful inflicts on its characters. However, the upside to this story is the light that comes out of the darkness, something I would say is a...
- 7/15/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Check out the poster as well as the trailer for Oscilloscope Laboratories' "Howl" starring James Franco as Allen Gisnberg, Todd Rotondi as Jack Kerouac, Jon Prescott as Neal Cassady, Aaron Tveit as Peter Orlovsky, David Strathairn as Ralph McIntosh and Jon Hamm as Jake Ehrich. Check out all the images, the poster and the trailer below! “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked . . .” Howl is the story of how the young poet’s seminal work broke down societal barriers in the face of an infamous public obscenity trial. In his famously confessional style, Ginsberg – poet, counter-culture icon, and chronicler of the Beat Generation – recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to "Howl," the most timeless work of his career. "Howl" interweaves three stories: the unfolding of the landmark 1957 obscenity trial; an imaginative animated ride through the prophetic...
- 7/15/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
James Franco in Howl
Photo: Oscilloscope Laboratories Howl opened the Sundance Film Festival and wasn't exactly met with glowing reviews. Some people came out enjoying it, but for the most part it seemed to have missed the mark. It went on to play at the Berlin Film Festival and this past Saturday it had its only screening at the Seattle International Film Festival and I wasn't going to miss it.
Shot in color, black-and-white and including animated sequences there's a bit of a learning curve to Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Freidman's Howl. It doesn't necessarily work at the start as overexcited animation featuring phallic forests and psychadellic love-making plays in the background with James Franco as Allen Ginsberg reading from the late writer's seminal piece of poetry. Having only read Ginsberg's "Howl" once and knowing little of the man himself, I can honestly say I was lost in terms of...
Photo: Oscilloscope Laboratories Howl opened the Sundance Film Festival and wasn't exactly met with glowing reviews. Some people came out enjoying it, but for the most part it seemed to have missed the mark. It went on to play at the Berlin Film Festival and this past Saturday it had its only screening at the Seattle International Film Festival and I wasn't going to miss it.
Shot in color, black-and-white and including animated sequences there's a bit of a learning curve to Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Freidman's Howl. It doesn't necessarily work at the start as overexcited animation featuring phallic forests and psychadellic love-making plays in the background with James Franco as Allen Ginsberg reading from the late writer's seminal piece of poetry. Having only read Ginsberg's "Howl" once and knowing little of the man himself, I can honestly say I was lost in terms of...
- 6/14/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
AfterElton.com previewed Howl, the new film starring James Franco as a young Allen Ginsberg, earlier this week.
Howl directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, (Common Threads, Celluloid Closet) tell their story not with interviews and archival footage, but by weaving together dramatization, re-enactment and wild jazz-soundtracked hallucinatory animation.
James Franco is compelling whether he's reading "Howl" to an entraptured Beat audience, chain smoking through an interview in a Rome hotel room, or dropping to his knees to give Neal Cassady (Jon Prescott) oral sex.
James Franco, right, as Allen Ginsberg and Aaron Tveit, left, as Peter Orlovsky, Ginsberg's partner for over 40 years.
AfterElton.com will feature a full review later in the year.
Howl is showing at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 12, at the closing night of the 34th San Francisco International Lgbt Film Festival (Frameline) on June 27, and on the opening night of the 28th Los...
Howl directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, (Common Threads, Celluloid Closet) tell their story not with interviews and archival footage, but by weaving together dramatization, re-enactment and wild jazz-soundtracked hallucinatory animation.
James Franco is compelling whether he's reading "Howl" to an entraptured Beat audience, chain smoking through an interview in a Rome hotel room, or dropping to his knees to give Neal Cassady (Jon Prescott) oral sex.
James Franco, right, as Allen Ginsberg and Aaron Tveit, left, as Peter Orlovsky, Ginsberg's partner for over 40 years.
AfterElton.com will feature a full review later in the year.
Howl is showing at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 12, at the closing night of the 34th San Francisco International Lgbt Film Festival (Frameline) on June 27, and on the opening night of the 28th Los...
- 6/11/2010
- by christiekeith
- The Backlot
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
We first met Peter Orlovsky six summers ago, as we were embarking on our film based on the 1955 poem “Howl” by Peter's longtime partner, Allen Ginsberg. Peter was the first person we set out to meet as part of our research. He was then living a quiet retired life in a the woods of New England, lovingly cared for by friends arranged by Allen before his death in 1997.We showed up at Peter's small apartment on the first level of a Victorian house in a peaceful Vermont town. From all the pictures we had seen, Peter had been a knockout as a young man, and he was still a very good-looking older man, with piercing blue eyes, a strong jaw, and a shock of thick gray hair. Though debilitated with emphysema, he seemed big and robust, and he had a ready and happy smile.He was warm and funny. His...
- 6/2/2010
- The Advocate
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From the “I didn’t see that coming” file we have news that Al and Tipper Gore have separated after 40 years of marriage. In unrelated and less likely news, Bill and Hillary Clinton will celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary this October.
The Strand Craft 122 Yacht is so sleek and streamlined that not only can you not afford it, but they had to go find an incredibly exotic and expensive car to park in the onboard garage for the photo shoot.
Despite claiming in the press over the weekend that his team’s management supported him completely in his “media activities,” the hateful, Jason afraid to have an openly-gay-teammate-see-his-penis Ackermanis has accepted a demotion. He’s also suspended his media activities for three weeks to reflect on what’s happened. The team tried...
From the “I didn’t see that coming” file we have news that Al and Tipper Gore have separated after 40 years of marriage. In unrelated and less likely news, Bill and Hillary Clinton will celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary this October.
The Strand Craft 122 Yacht is so sleek and streamlined that not only can you not afford it, but they had to go find an incredibly exotic and expensive car to park in the onboard garage for the photo shoot.
Despite claiming in the press over the weekend that his team’s management supported him completely in his “media activities,” the hateful, Jason afraid to have an openly-gay-teammate-see-his-penis Ackermanis has accepted a demotion. He’s also suspended his media activities for three weeks to reflect on what’s happened. The team tried...
- 6/1/2010
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
In 1955, Allen Ginsberg performed a poem about sex, drugs and race that became a battlecry for the Us counterculture. It also led to an obscenity trial. B Ruby Rich on a new film about the epic Howl
On 7 October 1955, at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg brought the house down with a performance of his hallucinatory new poem, Howl. Among other things, this epic work in four parts dealt with drugs, mental illness, religion, homosexuality – the fears and preoccupations of a generation. Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti were both in the audience. Ginsberg was 29 years old. Also present was the future choreographer and film-maker Yvonne Rainer. A teenager at the time, Rainer still clearly remembers that night: "Ginsberg, quite drunk, clean-shaven, in black suit and tie-less white shirt, holding a jug of rot-gut red wine, intoning and chanting the poem." Back then, the beats were in thrall to...
On 7 October 1955, at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg brought the house down with a performance of his hallucinatory new poem, Howl. Among other things, this epic work in four parts dealt with drugs, mental illness, religion, homosexuality – the fears and preoccupations of a generation. Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti were both in the audience. Ginsberg was 29 years old. Also present was the future choreographer and film-maker Yvonne Rainer. A teenager at the time, Rainer still clearly remembers that night: "Ginsberg, quite drunk, clean-shaven, in black suit and tie-less white shirt, holding a jug of rot-gut red wine, intoning and chanting the poem." Back then, the beats were in thrall to...
- 1/21/2010
- by B Ruby Rich
- The Guardian - Film News
Back in June we featured the first photo from Howl, the film about the 1957 obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg faced after the publication of his poem of the same name. Thanks to FilmSchoolRejects though, we've got three more photos to add to that first one from June. Howl stars James Franco as the poet Allen Ginsberg alongside of Mary-Louise Parker as Gail Potter, Jeff Daniels as Professor David Kirk, and David Strathairn as Ralph McIntosh. Additionally, Aaron Tveit stars as Ginsberg's friend Peter Orlovsky, which is who you see with Franco above. We also just found out that this would be premiering at Sundance next January. Howl is written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and was executive producer by Gus Van Sant. Franco explained previously that he plays Ginsberg as "an unsure young man who's trying to find his way." The film surrounds the 1957 obscenity trial that ...
- 12/4/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
As we learned yesterday, Sundance has revealed the first chunk of its lineup, which included Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl. In other words, the film that has James Franco starring as Allen Ginsberg -- when the iconic poet faced an obscenity trial for his poem "Howl." The above picture is one of the first images of the film, released by the Sundance Film Festival, showing Ginsberg and lifelong partner Peter Orlovsky (Aaron Tveit). (Here's a picture for reference.) Pretty darned good, eh? But wait. It's easy to think Omg Perfect! and rush over there with high expectations.
Unfortunately, the above image is definitely the best of the bunch, with the others (see below gallery) looking like Franco in glasses (plus one more image of Jon Hamm in his best court duds). That makes me half excited and half disappointed, but it will all come down to how it works in moving,...
Unfortunately, the above image is definitely the best of the bunch, with the others (see below gallery) looking like Franco in glasses (plus one more image of Jon Hamm in his best court duds). That makes me half excited and half disappointed, but it will all come down to how it works in moving,...
- 12/3/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
This is the sort of story that we'd often relegate to Page 2, but I'm interested enough in Howl, the upcoming picture about poet Allen Ginsberg, that I want to take the chance to highlight the first photo of James Franco in character as Ginsberg as published by EW. I've been following Franco's Ledger-like emergence as a serious actor with great interest, and this could be a key project in his career. Written and directed by the team of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (who also made doc The Celluloid Closet over a decade ago) the film focuses on the publication of the poem Howl and the landmark obscenity trial that ensued. Sharing the frame with Franco there is Aaron Tveit, playing his longtime partner Peter Orlovsky; compare this shot to actual photos of Ginsberg and Orlovsky after the jump. Howl, originally intended as a performance piece when Ginsberg composed it...
- 6/9/2009
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Aaron Tveit (Next to Normal) and James Franco as Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg in Howl
Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
EW offers a first look at James Franco as gay beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the upcoming biopic Howl. Fans of the writers (who were also longtime lovers) were quick to point out the photo's inspiration. Here's a cute new interview out ex-pat David Sedaris did for the London Times: "Hugh and I have been together for 18 or something years. What’s our secret? Hugh never listens to a word I say." Kris Allen had some nice things to say about both his American Idol roomie, Adam Lambert, and Lambert's alleged boyfriend, Drake Labry: "They click well and they're really nice together." Platonically, of course!!
Above, NewNowNext Awards...
Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
EW offers a first look at James Franco as gay beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the upcoming biopic Howl. Fans of the writers (who were also longtime lovers) were quick to point out the photo's inspiration. Here's a cute new interview out ex-pat David Sedaris did for the London Times: "Hugh and I have been together for 18 or something years. What’s our secret? Hugh never listens to a word I say." Kris Allen had some nice things to say about both his American Idol roomie, Adam Lambert, and Lambert's alleged boyfriend, Drake Labry: "They click well and they're really nice together." Platonically, of course!!
Above, NewNowNext Awards...
- 6/8/2009
- by brian
- The Backlot
Not everyone can pull off the fussy hairstyles and giant glasses of the mid-1950s, but then again, not everyone is James Franco. In the first image of him in costume as Allen Ginsberg in Howl, posted by Entertainment Weekly, Franco wears the contented, self-satisfied smirk of a man who looks good and knows it. Of course, given that he's in character and shares the frame with Aaron Tveit, who plays Ginsberg's long-time partner Peter Orlovsky, it might just be the self-satisfied smirk of a man in love. Awards Daily also posted the original photo of Orlovsky and Ginsberg upon which the Howl image is based. Yes, it's true, Ginsberg himself wasn't quite the looker that Franco is-- but isn't that point of a biopic, making everyone more attractive than they were in real life? Howl, which also counts Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels and David Strathairn among its...
- 6/8/2009
- cinemablend.com
We've heard a little bit about Howl, the film about the 1957 obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg faced after the publication of his poem, but this is our first look at anyone in it. James Franco stars as the poet Allen Ginsberg alongside of Mary-Louise Parker as Gail Potter, Jeff Daniels as Professor David Kirk, and David Strathairn as Ralph McIntosh. Seen below, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, is our very first look at Franco along with co-star Aaron Tveit as his friend Peter Orlovsky. Howl is written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and was executive producer by Gus Van Sant. Check out the photo below. Franco (on the right) explains that he plays Ginsberg as "an unsure young man who's trying to find his way." Not only does Franco look a bit like Ginsberg, but he knows all about him, too. "All his uncertainty culminates in the poem '...
- 6/5/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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