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Interviews: Directors Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman of ‘Howl’
CHICAGO– The seismic shift that took place with the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s epic poem, “Howl” – which is also the title of the new movie about the verse – reverberates and inspires to this very...
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Film Review: James Franco as Allen Ginsberg Unleashes a Primal Scream in ‘Howl’
CHICAGO– “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…” So began the reading of Allen Ginsberg’s poem that rattled society, the very title of which is the...
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Interview: Director Walter Salles Takes Us ‘On the Road’
CHICAGO– One of most important counterculture novels in American literature history is “On the Road,” by Jack Kerouac. First published in 1957, the film rights were purchased at the time, but it took...
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Film Review: Visceral ‘On the Road’ Honors a Great American Novel
CHICAGO– The 1957 novel “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, was a missile across the bow of American social conventions, and a precursor to the radical 1960s. For over fifty years, it has eluded a film...
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Film Review: Daniel Radcliffe Finds a Beat in ‘Kill Your Darlings’
CHICAGO– The movies has been berry berry good to 1950s Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsburg. For the sixth time since 2009, his persona is actualized on celluloid – this time by Harry Potter himself,...
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