Basic Info
Release: March 30, 2012
Runtime: 88 min
Rating: ⭐ 4.5/10 (4 votes)
Status: Released
The Beat Hotel
2012
88 min
⭐ 4.5/10
4 votes
Overview
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.
Genres
Documentary
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Flatrate
Philo
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Fandor Amazon Channel
Cast
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
Crew
Alan Govenar
Director
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