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Palm Theatre - SLO Film Center
Poetry Month
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Hosted by Caleb Nichols, Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo County
2010 84m Directed By: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Starring: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.