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The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1993)

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Reviews Counted:6

Fresh:5

Rotten:1

Average Rating:6.3/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 82 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Synopsis: Profile of the enduring Beat poet Allen Ginsberg -- covering his youth in New Jersey, his college years at Columbia (where he established the Beat literary scene with William Burroughs and Jack... Profile of the enduring Beat poet Allen Ginsberg -- covering his youth in New Jersey, his college years at Columbia (where he established the Beat literary scene with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac), his political activism in the 1960s and 1970s, his relationship with poet Peter Orlovsky, and present status as poetry sage and professor. A highlight of the film is Ginsberg reading his masterpieces "Howl" and Kaddish." [More]

Starring: Ken Kesey, Abbie Hoffman, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer

Starring: Ken Kesey, Abbie Hoffman, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Dick Cavett, Timothy Leary, William F. Buckley, William S. Burroughs

Director: Jerry Aronson

Director: Jerry Aronson

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For this double-disc DVD release, director Aronson has assembled a wealth of extra footage, much of it more interesting and revealing than the movie itself.

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01/31/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Not the last word on the noted Jewish poet: Considering Ginsberg's flamboyant and complex personality and the intriguing writers-artists in his life, Jerry Aronson's documentary is disappointingly conventional.

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A lot of the information is redundant and the pacing is quite leisurely, to put it mildly.

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It's more pedantically informative and admiring than amusing or provacative, but worth seeing for all the memories of cultural changes it evokes.

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