Search results for "Allen Ginsberg"
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
IMDb: 7.6
142

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that…

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
IMDb: 6.7
76

Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20×24 camera. For the next thirty-five years, she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her studio:…

Genre: Documentary
Burroughs: The Movie

Burroughs: The Movie

Burroughs: The Movie
IMDb: 7
90

An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern,…

Genre: Documentary
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
IMDb: 6.8
73

The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world’s living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and…

Genre: Documentary
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
IMDb: 7.3
71

Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his death in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned…

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
IMDb: 8.4
208

A chronicle of Bob Dylan’s strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to “voice of a generation” to rock star.

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
IMDb: 8.2
285

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas “purely by chance”, without concern for chronological order.

Genre: Documentary
Lost, Lost, Lost

Lost, Lost, Lost

Lost, Lost, Lost
IMDb: 7.4
178

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.

Genre: Documentary
The Source

The Source

The Source
IMDb: 7.2
88

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac’s meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic…

Berkeley in the Sixties

Berkeley in the Sixties

Berkeley in the Sixties
IMDb: 7.5
117

A documentary about militant student political activity at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s.

Genre: Documentary
Heavy Petting

Heavy Petting

Heavy Petting
IMDb: 6.1
74

Celebrities and creatives — including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg– recall their earliest sexual experiences.

Genre: Documentary
Growing Up in America

Growing Up in America

Growing Up in America
IMDb: 7.5
90

Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other ’60s rebels, then and now in a follow up to his 1971 film “Breathing Together: Revolution…

Genre: Documentary
Poetry in Motion

Poetry in Motion

Poetry in Motion
IMDb: 7
91

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These…

Genre: Documentary
Herostratus

Herostratus

Herostratus
IMDb: 6.7
142

When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.

Genre: Drama
Bob Dylan – Dont Look Back

Bob Dylan – Dont Look Back

Bob Dylan – Dont Look Back
IMDb: 7.9
96

In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back…