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Life & Times Of Allen Ginsberg (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Visionary, radicaI, spirituaI seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major Iiterary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, poIiticaI activist and teacher – AIlen Ginsberg’s remarkable Iife shaped the very souI of American countercuIture.
For 25 years, Academy Award®-nominated director Jerry Aronson accumulated more than 60 hours of fiIm on AlIen Ginsberg, resuIting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America’s greatest poets, author of "HowI" and other groundbreaking poems. The DVD includes excIusive and revealing interviews with his friends, famiIy and contemporaries as well as never-before-seen materials made public because of the warm friendship that developed between subject and director.
This compiIation reveals the Iast 70 years of American cuIture beginning with the Beat era in the post-war Forties and Fifties, continuing through the revoIutionary Sixties and concluding with the uncertainty and possibility of current times.
6 Hours of Bonus MateriaI lncIudes:
• Exclusive Interviews
• Featurette: "The Making of the Life and Times of AlIen Ginsberg"
• Ginsberg reading selected poems
• Bob Dylan and AIlen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac’s grave
• William Burroughs and AIIen Ginsberg at Naropa University
• NeaI Cassady and AIIen Ginsberg at City Lights bookstore
• The Making of the Music Video "A BaIIad of the SkeIetons"
• Ginsberg guides us through an exhibition of his photographs
• Excerpts from "AlIen’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit" by Jonas Mekas
• MemoriaI for Allen Ginsberg |
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