Articles tagged "allen ginsberg"

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An Unlikely Candidate for Influence: ‘Naked Lunch’ at 50 Years Young

by Dave Teeuwen

[17.Jul.09] :. William S. Burroughs changed the way writers would think of honesty in literature, achieving the mark of true greatness in 20th century literature by releasing the last banned book in the United States.

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Obscene: A Biography of the Life and Career of Renowned Publisher Barney Rosset

by Christel Loar

[13.Mar.09] :. A fierce, funny and informative look at the most influential publisher of the 20th century, from Rosset's literary firsts to his crusade against censorship and continuing cultural impact.

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The Letters of Allen Ginsberg

by Wilson McBee

[2.Dec.08] :. Ginsberg was hyperaware of the frequent charge that Beat poetry was little more than improvised mumbo jumbo baked from jazz records and marijuana smoke.

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Robert Frank: The Complete Film Works: Volumes 1, 2 & 3

by Chris Robé

[29.Aug.08] :. As Frank’s films reveal, a lack of access to avant-garde cinema is a collective denial of a vital part of our selves.

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Gang of Souls

by Marc Calderaro

[28.May.08] :. This seems as if a “Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics” alum gathered old professors in a room and asked them about things they’ve been asked a million times before.

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20 to Life: The Life and Times of John Sinclair

by Stuart Henderson

[15.Nov.07] :. There is no lesson here, moral or otherwise, nor is there anything of an examination of the spirit of the man at the center of it all.

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Allen Ginsberg: The Politics of Ecstasy

by Tobias Peterson

[28.Sep.07] :. Ginsberg had an eye that took in a world full of lovers and low-lifes -- each, for him, was a song waiting to be sung.

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Allen Ginsberg revisited in updated documentary

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[4.Sep.07] :. In decades of filmmaking, only occasionally had directors gone back to “fix” or restore films that they felt had been compromised by technical or time limitations, or by studios that...

 

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

by John G. Nettles

[28.Oct.05] :. Martin Scorsese's film is about Dylan's early life among the Mister Joneses of his era, ahead of rock and roll's learning curve and suffering the judgments of the slower kids in his class.