Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg, The
New Yorker (1994)
Biography, Documentary
In Collection
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IMDB   7.3
1 hr 24 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Joan Baez Herself
William F. Buckley Himself
William S. Burroughs Himself
Allen Ginsberg Himself
Abbie Hoffman Himself
Jack Kerouac Himself
Ken Kesey Himself
Timothy Leary Himself
Norman Mailer Himself
Director
Jerry Aronson
Producer Jerry Aronson

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 remarkable life challenged the very soul of America.

For 25 years, Academy Award nominated Director Jerry Aronson accumulated more than 120 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America's greatest poets, author of Howl and other ground-breaking poems. The DVD includes exclusive and revealing interviews with his friends, family and contemporaries as well as never-before-seen materials made public because of the warm friendship that developed between Ginsberg and the filmmaker.

This deluxe-edition contains the Director's Cut of the award-winning documentary that began filming in 1982 and now is complete, updated and re-mastered. Also included are many new interviews with the latest generation of artists influenced by Ginsberg.

This compilation reveals the last 60 years of American culture beginning with the Beat era in the post war Forties and Fifties, continuing through the revolutionary Sixties and concluding with both the uncertainty and possibility of current times.

Edition Details
Edition Deluxe Two-Disc Set
Distributor New Yorker Video
Release Date 7/17/2007
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 Color
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 2

Features
Disc 01 Exclusive Interviews
Featurette: The Making of The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Ginsberg reading selected poems
Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac's grave
William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University
Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg at City Lights book store
The Making of the Music Video - A Ballad of the Skeletons
Ginsberg guides us through an exhibition of his photographs
Excerpts from Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit by Jonas Mekas
Ginsberg's photo gallery
Director's photo gallery
Original theatrical trailer
Memorial for Allen Ginsberg