Tuesday, October 26, 2010
HOWL U.K. premiere this week at the London Film Festival
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Carter Burwell's gorgeous soundtrack for HOWL now available!
Carter assembled a dazzling ensemble of musicians to realize his beautiful, haunting motion picture score.
cello: Maya Beiser
guitar: David Torn, Marc Ribot
violin: Laura Seaton
woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash
bass: Fima Ephron
piano: Carter Burwell
Check out Eric Drooker's luscious graphic HOWL
Featuring sumptuous artwork from the motion picture!“In publishing 'Howl,' I was curious to leave behind after my generation an emotional time bomb that would continue exploding in U.S. consciousness, in case our military-industrial-nationalist complex solidified into a repressive police bureaucracy.”
“I was also curious to see how [Eric Drooker] would interpret my work. And I thought that with today's lowered attention span TV consciousness, this would be a kind of updating of the presentation of my work . . . He really captured that sense of Moloch I was going for in the second section of 'Howl'—‘Moloch whose buildings are judgment!’”
“I was also curious to see how [Eric Drooker] would interpret my work. And I thought that with today's lowered attention span TV consciousness, this would be a kind of updating of the presentation of my work . . . He really captured that sense of Moloch I was going for in the second section of 'Howl'—‘Moloch whose buildings are judgment!’”
— Allen Ginsberg
Monday, October 11, 2010
Discosalt talks to Jeffrey Friedman
Discosalt spoke with independent filmmaker Jeffrey Friedman (shown below as a sullen 18-year-old) about making the film, growing up in a Bohemian upper west side left-wing intellectual family, meeting Ginsberg for the first time, and both the personal and cultural impact of the poem.
Photo by Joe Clifford
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Stanley Fish on HOWL as Literary Criticism
"...After a movie you usually want to talk about the actors or the direction or the cinema-photography, but when you leave this movie what you want to do is go directly to a bookstore and buy a copy of “Howl” so that you can do some literary interpreting yourself; and then you want to go back and see the movie again (as I did) in the hope that this time you have something of your own to offer. See you there."
Monday, October 4, 2010
NY Times offers a study guide to HOWL (the poem and the movie!)
How can poetry both reflect and transcend the era in which it is written? How can looking at a poem from multiple perspectives illuminate its meaning?
A study guide from the New York Times.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
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