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No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For
Original Title
An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg- Director: Colin Still
- Producer: Jane Clegg; Colin Still
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What is it about filmmakers and the Beat poets?!?
Countless films have been made about them - once you've seen one, you've seen them all...since, nothing new is ever brought to the table.
They took huge amounts of drugs, drank themselves into oblivion - killed a few people and literally got away with it...and, they were all little rich kids.
Let us be perfectly frank...Ginsberg's poetry is terrible.
Howl only came to prominence because it was banned...not because of the dirty words but...because, it was howlingly bad.
This film is full of sycophantic bullshit...and, watching Paul McCartney trying to be musically credible is vomit-inducing.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A portrait of the American Beat poet, Buddhist and counter-cultural hero, who died in New York in 1997, this revealing documentary includes his last television interview as well as extraordinary footage of his final days. Participants include his family and friends, fellow poets and performers, Patti Smith and Paul McCartney. Composer and collaborator Philip Glass also appears and there is a rare interview with Ginsberg's life-long partner Peter Orlovsky.
Cast & Characters
Steve Allen as Himself;
Eugene Brooks as Himself;
William F. Buckley as Himself;
Ann Charters as Herself;
Robert Creeley as Himself;
Lawrence Ferlinghetti as Himself;
Allen Ginsberg as Himself;
Philip Glass as Himself;
Jack Kerouac as Himself;
Timothy Leary as Himself;
Paul McCartney as Himself;
Michael McClure as Himself;
Peter Orlovsky as Himself;
Gelek Rinpoche as Himself;
Bob Rosenthal as Himself