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Howl review

Writer/Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman Cinematographer: Edward Lachman Starring: James Franco, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels, David Strathairn Studio: Oscilloscope Pictures If there’s one thing that characterizes a howl, it’s a sense of focus. It’s a sustained, dedicated outburst of emotion that Allen Ginsberg captured so well in his now iconic 1955 poem. The just-released film _Howl _explores many of the same themes of restraint and expression that carried the poem, but it does so in a more sporadic and less connected way. What ends up on the screen turns out to be more a collection of inspired...  read more

Watch Two Clips from Allen Ginsberg Biopic, Howl

A couple of clips have emerged from the interestingly-cast Allen Ginsberg biopic, Howl....  read more

Watch the Howl Trailer

If the trailer released for Howl is any indication, James Franco as Allen Ginsberg is proving to be a match made in Beat heaven. The film, written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, brings a talented cast to chronicle Ginsberg’s obscenity trial that followed _Howl_’s controversial publication in 1957....  read more

James Franco Returns to the Soaps, Gets His Artist On

On her song “Superhero,” Ani DiFranco sings, “Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.”...  read more

Jon Hamm joins James Franco in Howl

Jon Hamm, the eminently likeable actor who is the face of Mad Men, has gone in the past couple of years from relative obscurity to one of the most sought-after talents around. After his side gigs as Tina Fey’s beau on 30 Rock and as a faux Lex Luther, he’s signed on for a supporting part in Howl, the indie drama about the obscenity trial of Allen Ginsberg (to be played by James Franco). ...  read more

James Franco, many more cast in Allen Ginsberg biopic

In the grand tradition of attractive Hollywood stars portraying iconic literary figures (think Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen, Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare, etc.), James Franco has been cast as groundbreaking beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg in the biopic Howl....  read more