Who doesn’t love James Franco? Who doesn’t love Allen Ginsberg? Who doesn’t love San Francisco in the “Beat” era?
October 29-November 4 at 7, 9pm
Presented by Northwest Film Forum and Earshot Jazz
(Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, USA, 2010, 35mm, 90 min)The beats are alive and well thanks to a soaring performance by James Franco in Howl, a mesmerizing channeling of Allen Ginsberg, set in 1957 San Francisco as his poetic masterpiece is put on trial. Part hallucinatory animation, part courtroom drama, part period piece about the creation of the iconic beat poem and the censorship trial for obscenity that followed its 1956 City Lights publication, Howl is bred with unexpected life and energy. It affirms itself as a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment: the birth of a counterculture.
AND, the poster now has Jon Hamm on it! Who doesn’t love Jon Hamm?!?!?
Warning: Mr Hamm has a small role in this film…it is not chock full of Hammly goodness…
– Michael Strangeways
