4 Clips from "Howl" (2009)

Premieres at Sundance and Stars James Franco, Jon Hamm, David Strathairn, Treat Williams, Mary Louise Parker, Aaron Tveit and Jeff Daniels.

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[radicalricky]

one word: DAVID CROSS

[indopop]

@backto1960

the mannerisms looked a little weird in the first clip but dude he sounds a lot like ginsberg, either way i look forward to this

[phoney98]

what are angel headed hipsters?

[UncleFizzmo]

@DIEaHEROdotNET He's "wiggling his head like a fool" because he's mimicking Ginsberg's mannerisms when he would read his poems. Franco says Ginsberg is his idol. He teaches poetry classes that focus on his works. I can assure you he had Ginsberg in mind, not an Oscar.

[datruthseeka]

this movie watcherus thing is gettin annoying and ive only seen 2 so far but it sounds like scammers

[stargate121]

I'd never thought I'd say this, but Allen Ginsburg was no James Franco.

[Jarona]

@radicalricky that's two words

[cdphatty]

idk i dont like the idea of cross playing ginsberg. cross is pure cynicism, while ginsberg gave everything he had into loving life.

[sukuheart]

i have those glasses xD

[danger0usknowledge]

The eternal war...the USA climbing out of WW II and Korea. The right wing controlled the political and social narrative. All the religious moral hypocrites held this country under their boot laying low since the Scopes Trial. It became so bad that ppl like Ginsberg had to react to the Bircher (KKK with bow-ties)insanity. You had creatures like Marcial Maciel Lawrence King, Oral Roberts & Jerry Falwell lurking in the background, waiting.

[YOUROCK80S]

More than any other film I've seen which elects to tell stories about gay men, "Howl" very clearly articulates the isolation and stigmatization felt by a group of human beings who, even today, are told that they are something just short of being real, equal men. True, things have gotten better: in the time the poem .