Howl, a biopic about beat poet Allen Ginsberg, premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival. Written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the film focuses on the obscenity trial brought about by the 1956 publication of Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems."
The film features James Franco (ex-Franco, GENERAL HOSPITAL) as Ginsberg, as well as Aaron Tveit (Trip, GOSSIP GIRL), Jon Hamm (Don, MAD MEN), Alessandro Nivola, and Mary-Louise Parker (RYAN'S HOPE). Jon Prescott (ex-Mike, AS THE WORLD TURNS) portrays Neal Cassady, Todd Rotondi (ex-Bryan, AS THE WORLD TURNS) is Jack Kerouac, and Andrew Rogers is Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Sundance provides the following film description: "It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself."
Howl is nominated for a Grand Jury Prize. Theater release dates are TBD.
Damn, Todd Rotondi is even HOTTER now than he was when he was Bryant!
ReplyDelete...And so is Jon Prescott. Two hot men, indeed
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