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CALL NUMBER: DVD PN1997 .2 .H27 2011
James Franco gives a career - defining performance as the young Allen Ginsberg - poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation - in HOWL, the audacious film from Academy Award winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman.
Franco as Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career: Howl. Pushing the limits and challenging the mainstream, the passionate and provocative poem Howl and its publisher find themselves on trial for obscenity, with
CALL NUMBER: DVD PN1997 .2 .H27 2011
James Franco gives a career - defining performance as the young Allen Ginsberg - poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation - in HOWL, the audacious film from Academy Award winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman.
Franco as Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career: Howl. Pushing the limits and challenging the mainstream, the passionate and provocative poem Howl and its publisher find themselves on trial for obscenity, with prosecutor Ralph McIntosh (David Strathairn) setting out to have the book banned, while defense attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) fervently argues for freedom of speech and creative expression. The proceedings veer from the comically absurd to the passionate as a host of unusual witnesses (Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams, Alessandro Nivola) pit generation against generation and art against fear in front of conservative Judge Clayton Horn (Bob Balaban).
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Manufacturer: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Release date: 4 January 2011
Number of discs: 1
Tags: Period Piece (1), Reserves (1), 09/11 (1), Language & Literature (1), Essential Cinema (1), Big City (1), Live-action (1), Fathers And Sons (1), Dramas (1), Action/adventure (1), Epic (1), Gangs (1), Recommended (1), New York City (1), True Story (1), Historical (1), Violence (1), Crime (1), Revenge (1), Gangsters (1)
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