![]() ![]() Some of the stories he has written for his various classes will be published in a collection coming out on Oct. Franco himself is no stranger to studying as he has spent the past few years taking graduate courses at six colleges including my alma mater, New York University. James Franco, who plays Ginsberg, obviously spent time studying the poet and mimicking his speech patterns and charisma. ![]() The movie has four separate, yet similar, storylines: the first reading of "Howl" in 1955, the courtroom of the 1957 obscenity trial that comes from said reading, an interview between Ginsberg and an unseen interviewer on the era of the beats and the poet's personal writing style and a couple of animated sequences depicting images from the epic poem ("Howl"). ![]() I recently saw the film "Howl," which is about Allen Ginsberg's poem of the same name, and I was once again blown away by my lack of knowledge on famous authors whom I really thought I knew - in this case it was Ginsberg. ![]()
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