
direct two legends of the documentary, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (directors, screenwriters and producers), who are among the most reputed professional non-fiction film and received between two Oscars, numerous Emmy, three Peabody and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Partners Telling Pictures, the production company they founded in 1987, have produced and directed numerous materials and short programs for HBO, NBC, MSNBC and PBS, in addition to his celebrated documentary films: Paragraph 175 (2000), narrated by Rupert Everett, about persecution Nazi homosexuals The Celluloid Closet (1995), narrated by Lily Tomlin, a hundred years of history of gay characters, both men and women who appear in Hollywood films. In co-production with HBO, ZDF-Arte and Channel 4); Common threads: stories from the quilt (1989), narrated by Dustin Hoffman, on the first ten years of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and the failure of the government's response. Before Telling Pictures, Rob did The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), narrated by Harvey Fierstein on the murder of count California elected openly gay. It has also been named in a survey of American Film Magazine critics as one of the best documentaries of the decade and the file chosen by the UCLA Film and Television for restoration and conservation. Rob began his career as co-director of Word is Out , a landmark of documentary released in 1977. In 2008 he was awarded the Pioneer Award from the International Documentary Association (IDA) throughout his career. Jeffrey began his career in film editing room as mythical as Raging Bull (Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese, 1980) and Exorcist (The Exorcist, William Friedkin, 1973). He has taught at Stanford University and the California College of the Arts. Rob has done in the Tisch School for the Arts at New York University and is Professor of Film Program of the California College of the Arts.
The film recounts the genesis of the poem in prose Howl (Howl) of Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) and the judicial process that was done in San Francisco (United States) in 1957 text to be considered obscene. Jeffrey Friedman, said that "the poem speaks of course, homosexuality, sexual repression, but more than that, it also speaks of dehumanization, consumerism, militarization of the culture war continues in the United States, "and Rob Epstein adds that" the poem was censored, it could be read on the radio, because it contains words deemed obscene. The trial helped to make it known. We hear about it at the time we were in school, but only came to discover its dimensions to work on the project. " "The interesting thing for us was going into the mechanisms of creation of Ginsberg in his poem, which combines the language of daily life with poetic. His images have to do with the madness of his mother, with her own sexual life frustrating, but also with politics, with jazz, with their relationships. Poem was a revolutionary, innovative, iconoclastic, and in many ways still is, "says Friedman.
Synopsis: In 1957, a masterpiece of American literature rocked an entire generation and led to the birth of the Counterculture. The work considered obscene by the most reactionary sectors of society, was brought to trial in San Francisco. Everything revolves around the young writer Alan Ginsberg, the young defense attorney Jake Ehrlich, a famous champion of civil and tax Ralp McIntosh, trying to show that the work is obscene at the same time striving to understand it. The representation of the trial is a narrative in which the young Ginsberg reflects on the creative process of his work and personal liberation struggle and had to live. The poem is a vibrant entertainment, an imaginary journey through the mind of an artist.
Howl can be seen in the Renoir Cinemas (C / Luis Bermejo, s / n), Tuesdays May sessions 16:10, 18:20, 20:20 and 22:35 hours and reduced price (4.70 Euros normal entry and 3 Euros for members of Club Renoir).
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