Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Merton: A Film Biography
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Merton: A Film Biography

Jan 01, 1984

Merton: A Film Biography
1984 57 min 1 vues
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace. Merton: A Film Biography provides the first comprehensive look at this remarkable 20th century religious philosopher who wrote, in addition to his immensely popular autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, over 60 books on some of the most pressing social issues of our time, some of which are excerpted here. Merton offers an engaging profile of a man whose presence in the world touched millions of people and whose words and thoughts continue to have a profound impact and relevance today.
Documentary
La dernière valse
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La dernière valse

May 01, 1978

La dernière valse
1978 117 min 267 vues
Le dernier concert du groupe de rock américain The Band en novembre 1976, dans la salle du Winterland Ballroom de San Francisco. Sur scène, de nombreux invités de prestige ayant côtoyé ce populaire groupe des années soixante et soixante-dix parmi lesquels Bob Dylan, mentor de la formation, mais également Neil Young, Muddy Waters ou encore Eric Clapton. Le concert est entrecoupé d'interwiews des membres du groupes réalisées par Martin Scorsese.
Documentary
Wholly Communion
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Wholly Communion

Dec 31, 1965

Wholly Communion
1965 33 min 9 vues
A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry. It came to be seen as one of the cultural high points of the Swinging Sixties.
The Last Tears from Planet Earth
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The Last Tears from Planet Earth

Jan 01, 2003

The Last Tears from Planet Earth
2003 5 min 1 vues
A visionary voyage in a deserted land where the human race is a distant memory. This fusion of live footage, mirror photography and computer animation set to the pulse of electronic music of Lorenzo Brusci is a hauntingly beautiful elegy for humanity.
The Source
5.1

The Source

Jan 23, 1999

The Source
1999 88 min 12 vues
Retrace les Beats depuis la rencontre d'Allen Ginsberg et Jack Kerouac en 1944 à l'Université de Columbia jusqu'à la mort de Ginsberg et William S. Burroughs en 1997. Trois acteurs proposent des interprétations dramatiques du travail de ces trois écrivains, et le film relate leurs amitiés, leur arrivée dans la conscience américaine, leurs voyages, les parodies fréquentes, la mort de Kerouac et la politisation de Ginsberg. Leur mouvement se connecte au bebop, à la musique de John Cage, à l'expressionnisme abstrait et au théâtre vivant. Dans des interviews récentes, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders et d'autres mesurent la signification et l'impact des Beats.
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Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
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Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

Apr 01, 2009

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009 73 min 3 vues
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.
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Be-In
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Be-In

Feb 01, 1967

Be-In
1967 7 min 2 vues
Captures the spirit and essence of the great San Francisco Human Be-In of January 14, 1967. Ten thousand people imbued with peace, love and euphoria. Set to hard rock such as only San Francisco blues can produce. BE-IN contains Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Timothy Leary, Michael McClure, Lenore Kandel and Buddha. Music by Blue Cheer.
Music
Goldmouth
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Goldmouth

Jan 01, 1965

Goldmouth
1965 17 min 1 vues
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti shows the walk he often took from his house in Portero Hill to his bookstore, City Lights in North Beach. Wine, women and a Gold Mask are intercut with color, black-and-white and negative footage - scratched, painted and collaged.
The War Prayer
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The War Prayer

Nov 07, 2005

The War Prayer
2005 14 min 1 vues
"In 1904, disgusted by the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War, Mark Twain wrote a short anti-war prose poem called "The War Prayer." His family begged him not to publish it, his friends advised him to bury it, and his publisher rejected it, thinking it too inflammatory for the times. Twain agreed, but instructed that it be published after his death, saying famously: None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth."
War
Woodstock
7.525

Woodstock

Mar 26, 1970

Woodstock
1970 225 min 264 vues
Le plus important rassemblement de la musique pop de ces vingt dernières années. Des groupes qui ont marqué leur époque et une jeunesse qui a marqué la sienne. Un regard intime sur le Woodstock Music & Art Festival qui s'est tenu à Bethel, New York en 1969, de la préparation aux nettoyages, avec un accès historique aux initiés, des images de concerts époustouflantes et des portraits des spectateurs ; des aspects négatifs et positifs sont montrés: depuis la consommation de drogue par les artistes jusqu'aux fans nus glissant dans la boue, de l'effondrement des clôtures par des hordes inattendues jusqu'à l'arrivée surréaliste d'hélicoptères de la Garde nationale avec de la nourriture et une assistance médicale pour la ville impromptue de 500 000 habitants.
Documentary
The Joy of Life
5.2

The Joy of Life

May 22, 2005

The Joy of Life
2005 65 min 5 vues
A blending of documentary and experimental narrative strategies, combining stunning 16mm landscape cinematography with a bold, lyrical voice-over to share two San Francisco stories: the history of the Golden Gate Bridge as “suicide landmark,” and the story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery. The Joy of Life is a film about landscapes, both physical and emotional.
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On the Road to Desolation
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On the Road to Desolation

Oct 11, 1997

On the Road to Desolation
1997 50 min 1 vues
Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a fire-watcher on Washington state's Desolation Peak. After this stint he was never the same creative force again.
Documentary
A Ferlinghetti Poem
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A Ferlinghetti Poem

Jan 01, 1968

A Ferlinghetti Poem
1968 137 min 1 vues
Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. An Animation Workshop film that visualizes the beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "The World is a Beautiful Place" by melding collage and cel animation. Repurposing images from popular magazines, Frew juxtaposes photographs of the Holocaust genocide with the hyper-pop images of American culture, contextualized by the rising anti-Vietnam War and Student Protest movements of the late 1960s.
Animation