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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, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher – Allen Ginsberg’s remarkabIe life shaped the very soul of American counterculture.
For 25 years, Academy Award®-nominated director Jerry Aronson accumuIated more than 60 hours of film on AIlen Ginsberg, resulting 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 pubIic 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 Material Includes:
• ExcIusive lnterviews
• Featurette: "The Making of the Life and Times of AIlen Ginsberg"
• Ginsberg reading seIected poems
• Bob DyIan and AlIen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac’s grave
• WiIliam Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University
• Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg at City Lights bookstore
• The Making of the Music Video "A BalIad of the Skeletons"
• Ginsberg guides us through an exhibition of his photographs
• Excerpts from "AIIen’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit" by Jonas Mekas
• MemoriaI for Allen Ginsberg |
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