HOWL

Posted on 2011-02-07

With a film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, which will star Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst out later in the year. Allen Ginsberg another of the founders of The Beat Generation has had a film based on one of his works, Howl. The poem was originally considered to be obscene, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti who published it was arrested and charged. James Franco as Ginsberg talks about his life and art, and his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.

In theaters February 25th, 2011

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