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Bookmark this pageThe Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1986)
Director: Jerry Aronson
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From Time Out Film Guide
Burroughs, Kerouac, Cassidy, Orlovsky, Huncke - there's amusement to be derived from the respectable Ginsberg family remembering their nice Jewish boy and wondering how he fell in with the wrong crowd. His Russian mother's terror of being trapped led to insanity, and drove him to a conspicuous emancipation. Protest, poetry, drugs: the best quote - 'walking on water wasn't built in a day' - came from Catholic Kerouac on the effects of LSD. Fascinating cultural history.Author: BC
Cast & crew
Director: Jerry Aronson
Producer: Jerry Aronson
Cast: Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Hannah Litsky, Eugene Brooks Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Joan Baez full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 82 mins
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