Howl

Sunday October 10 | 22.00 hrs
Pathé Tuschinski | Cinema 5

Sunday October 10 | 19.30 hrs
Pathé Tuschinski | Cinema 4

USA – 90 min. – 2010

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. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman navigate a seamless segue from their documentary roots to masterful storytellers. They expand the notion of how a "true story" can be realized on film by not simply relying on facts but enlisting cinematic vision to capture the Zeitgeist of an era. 

Director and script: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Producer: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Elizabeth Redleaf, Christine K. Walker
With: James Franco, David Strathairn ,Jon Hamm, Bob Balaban ,Jeff Daniels , Mary-Alessandro Nivola,
Treat Williams,Jon Prescott,Todd Rotondi, Aaron Tveit
Lineproducer: Lynn Appelle
Associate producers: Ken Bailey, Bob Rosenthal
Co-producer: Brian Benson, Andrew Peterson, Mark Steele
Executive producer: Miles Levy, Jawal Nga, Gus Van Sant
Music: Carter Burwell
Camera: Edward Lachman
Montage/Editing: Jake Pushinsky

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