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The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

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Director(s)	Jerry Aronson
Release Date	2006
Work In Progress	No
Runtime	84 min
Format(s)	none
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	No

Film Description

Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher, inspiration for the recent feature film *Howl,” Allen Ginsberg’s remarkable life challenged the very soul of America.

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg is considered to be its subject’s definitive documentary. Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Jerry Aronson who spent 25 years accumulating more than 120 hours of footage, it is a riveting portrait of one of America’s greatest poets.

USA, 1994/2006 www.ginsbergmovie.com

Institutional DVD Sale:

$99 with PPR and streaming rights ** for colleges, universities and private institutions
$49 with PPR for Public Libraries and Public Schools
$24.95 without PPR

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*Public Performance Rights are for showings to groups of 50 or less where no admission is charged. For larger showings please inquire

“LIFE AND TIMES sheds fresh light on Ginsberg’s formative years, when he suffered through his mother’s incarceration in a mental institution, came out of the closet and launched the Beat movement with Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.”—
San Francisco Chronicle

“This is a very rich slice of cultural history, lovingly presented.”—Boston Globe
“Jerry Aronson has augmented his crisp, straightforward documentary portrait of the poet Allen Ginsberg with six hours of extra material for this double-disc release, which now makes it a scholarly resource as well as a remarkably clearheaded study
of a singularly complex individual.”—NY Times
Deluxe two-disc DVD set

Disc One:
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg by (84 min feature documentary) plus 2 hours of Extras

Disc Two:
35 historical interviews with friends, family, contemporaries and the latest generation
of artists influenced by Allen Ginsberg

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Last Updated On:	October 20, 2010