![]() ![]() the Beat movement, was pretty much created on the spot, and this part of the film lets you see why. For more on the animation, click here.) In real life, the reading caused a sensation-the image of the San Francisco Renaissance, a.k.a. (For more on the re-enactment of the reading, click here. ![]() ![]() Not only does he look quite a bit like the young Ginsberg (before he went bald and grew the shaman’s beard), but he has his clipped mannerisms down perfectly and, more remarkable still, he reads poetry like a poet (something few actors do at all successfully), so much so that I wish the filmmakers would have just shown Franco reading during those scenes and not cut away now and then to a cartoon dramatization of the poem the animation is too literal and distracts from Ginsberg’s language. James Franco, as Ginsberg, is stunningly spot-on. 7, 1955, with what he later described as “a strange, ecstatic intensity”-his friend and literary soul mate, Jack Kerouac, who was passing around the jugs of wine, would refer to the event as that “mad night”-and the film re-creates it with a properly hushed thrill. ![]() Ginsberg gave his first reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in the North Beach district of San Francisco the night of Oct. ![]()
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