The Beat Hotel (2012)
The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the “freedom” that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.
- Date of release
- 2012-03-30
- TMDB
- 4.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Alan Govenar
Casting
- Jean-Jacques Lebel — Self
- Harold Chapman — Self
- Elliot Rudie — Self
- Regina Weinreich — Self
- Barry Miles — Self
- Peter Golding — Self
- Oliver Harris — Self
- 'Cyclops' Lester — Self
- Allen Ginsberg — Self (archive footage)
- William S. Burroughs — Self (archive footage)
- Gregory Corso — Self (archive footage)
- George Whitman — Self
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