Written in 1955 Howl is a seminal poem by Allen Ginsberg and in this new film Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman direct James Franco as Ginsberg and attempt to tell the story of the poem and the court case that followed its publication.
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have previously worked in the documentary field and are perhaps most famous for their excellent documentaries, Celluloid Closet and The Time of Harvey Milk, the latter of which inspired Gus Van Sant’s Milk in 2008 (Van Sant also executive produced Howl). With Howl the duo of Epstein and Friedman tackle the oft-problematic area of the biopic.
Howl is not strictly a biopic, despite constantly entering that territory, although it could be considered in many ways to serve as a biopic of the poem Howl, rather than its author Allen Ginsberg. The film tells the story of Howl in a variety of ways. First...
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have previously worked in the documentary field and are perhaps most famous for their excellent documentaries, Celluloid Closet and The Time of Harvey Milk, the latter of which inspired Gus Van Sant’s Milk in 2008 (Van Sant also executive produced Howl). With Howl the duo of Epstein and Friedman tackle the oft-problematic area of the biopic.
Howl is not strictly a biopic, despite constantly entering that territory, although it could be considered in many ways to serve as a biopic of the poem Howl, rather than its author Allen Ginsberg. The film tells the story of Howl in a variety of ways. First...
- 10/26/2010
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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