TV Guide: Allen Ginsberg

Video: Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Wild Combination is director Matt Wolf's visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now, over fifteen years since his passing, Arthur's work is finally finding its audience. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family, friends, and closest collaborators including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg to tell this poignant and important story.

Video: Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Grasping for the Wind

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A series every young person should see. This stimulating seven-part series shows what has happened to our culture over the past 200 years and how we view life today. The implication for our future and your life are enormous and unavoidable. Winner of the World Medal at the New York Festival.#1: "Breaking the Past" shows that when a culture abandons its religious traditions, it must find something strong enough to replace those traditions to give people a sense of meaning. This episode compares Enlightenment thinkers to Romantic thinkers and also looks at the revolutionary ideas of the 20th century artists and writers including Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and Johnny Rotten.#2: "Where Are We Going?" examines the 20th century's search for answers to questions such as "Where do we come from?," "Where are we going?," and "Who are we?" Some key people and films featured in this episode include Charles Darwin, Michelangel, Jim Morrison and "Blade Runner."#3: "Children of the Machine" explores t

Video: Brazil: On the River of Shamans

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Riku and Tunna travel from the urban jungles of Rio's favelas to the rainforests of the Amazon basin in the footsteps of William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, searching for the deepest swamps and quagmires of the sub-consciousness.

Video: Program #1: "Breaking the Past"

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Program #1, "Breaking the Past," shows that when a culture abandons its religious traditions, it must find something strong enough to replace those traditions to give people a sense of meaning. This episode compares Enlightenment thinkers to Romantic thinkers and also looks at the revolutionary ideas of the 20th century artists and writers including Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and Johnny Rotten.

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The trailer for Corso: The Last Beat. A film made for 18 - 35's to make "The Beats" - icons of American Culture - accessible to a new generation. A rediscovery of The Beats inner circle Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso by revealing their most comic and entertaining member, Corso. After the passing of Ginsberg and Burroughs, Corso is "On The Road" in Europe on a madcap odyssey searching for his muse. In sidesplitting antics, Corso retraces The Beats early days as expatriates. Amazingly, through the film, Corso finds his own lost mother, who abandoned him in his first year, 67 years before, to return to Italy. However, she is not dead, but alive, and not in Italy but in Trenton N.J. They meet on film. Corso is revitalized and returns to Greenwich Village to work again. In ultimate irony Corso faces his own mortality with humor and pluck, comforted by Ethan Hawke, Patti Smith and his newfound mother.

Video: The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

IMDB Videos — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A documentary tracing the life and work of Allen Ginsberg, the greatest of the Beat Generation poets.

Video: Uluma

IMDB Videos — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Howl is an homage to the reading rituals of the Beat poets, to Wholly Communion, to 1965, to Allen Ginsberg, to Jack Kerouac, to William Burroughs, to all those books that we believe to be published in heaven, and to all the restless spirits...

Video: The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The life and work of Allen Ginsberg, the greatest of the Beat Generation poets is put in focus in this film

Video: The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The life and work of Allen Ginsberg, the greatest of the Beat Generation poets is put in focus in this film

Video: Timothy Learly on Mind Expansion

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Timothy Leary was a former Harvard psychologist whose advocacy of mind-altering drugs made him, in Richard Nixon's words, ''the most dangerous man in America.'' His quoted ''tune in, turn on, drop out '' phrase was a major counterculture slogan.

Video: Allen Ginsburg on the Beat Generation

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In this interview Allen Ginsberg talks about the Beat Generation and about the counterculture movement. He also talks about other movements that were associated with this, such as the hippie movement and the spread of jazz.

Video: Ballad Of The Skeletons

AOL music — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

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Video: 'Absolute Wilson' - Trailer No. 1

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Filmmaker Katharina Otto-Bernstein offers a detailed look into the world of avant-garde theater icon Robert Wilson, whose visionary works and collaborations with such varied artists as Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg, and Tom Waits have established him as one of the world's most respected theater artists. From his early childhood in Waco, TX, to his influential work with the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds to his internationally acclaimed "Einstein on the Beach" collaboration with Glass, his ill-fated CIVIL WarS performance, and the Black Rider collaboration with Waits that would later vindicate the failure of CIVIL WarS, Otto-Bernstein takes a linear look at Wilson's life and career while also offering informative interviews with the artist's many collaborators and, of course, extensive conversations with the man himself. - Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide