Ugo Rondinone's surround - sound presentation of the 79 - year - old
beat poet John Giorno, saying his catty goodbyes to the world in a meandering lament that takes no prisoners, is a touching tribute to an old beatnik's fearlessness.
Not exact matches
An energetic debut feature from director
John Krokidas, Kill Your Darlings is a hybrid biopic and crime drama based on actual events from the life of
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe).
John Goodman and Garrett Hedlund show up as an obnoxious jazz man and a laconic
beat poet, respectively.
The directorial debut by
John Krokidas brings forth the story of some of the best
poets of the
beat generation: Ginsberg, Lucien Carr (DeHaan), William Burroughs (Foster), and Jack Kerouac (Huston) and the murder that forever changed their lives.
KILL YOUR DARLINGSDirector:
John KrokidasStarring: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Jack Huston, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, Elizabeth Olsen, Jennifer Jason Leigh Daniel Radcliffe goes from one literary world to another as he dons some nifty glasses and curls to play
beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
John Goodman adds some color (as per usual) as Roland Turner, a jazz musician Llewyn meets on the road who might be more obnoxious than he is; Garrett Hedlund makes a brief appearance as Turner's driver, cigarette un-sharing,
beat -
poet Johnny Five; and F. Murray Abraham plays up the big whig (or as big as they get at this point) Bud Grossman, a potential label representative Llewyn has been eyeing in Chicago, his possible ticket for getting out of all of this mess.
Its members included the
Beat poets, the composer
John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham and musicians such as Miles Davies, Stan Getz and
John Coltrane.
Among the least familiar names is
John Farris, a
Beat poet who added art to his repertory a few years before his death in 2016 and was known mostly on the Lower East Side.