Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

1993 film by Jerry Aronson

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The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg is a 1993 film by Jerry Aronson chronicling the poet Allen Ginsberg's life up to that point, along with his views on death; Ginsberg was in his mid 60s when the movie was first released, and died at age 70. The film has been completed and released a number of times due to changing technologies and world events. The first release of the film was in 1993 at the Sundance Film Festival after which it enjoyed an international festival run and USA theatrical run. When Aronson showed him the film the poet is reported to have nodded his head thoughtfully and said, "So, that's Allen Ginsberg."

After Ginsberg passed in 1997, Jerry Aronson decided to update the ending of the film to include the poet's passing, added a shot of Ginsberg's headstone in New Jersey, and added a new recording of Paul Simon singing Ginsberg's "New Stanzas for Amazing Grace" for the closing credits.

The new DVD, released in July 2007 by New Yorker Video, includes interviews with Bono, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Joan Baez, Michael McClure, Norman Mailer, Amiri Baraka, Ken Kesey, William S. Burroughs, Anne Waldman and Timothy Leary \- all of whom considered Ginsberg a good friend.

In addition to the documentary, the DVD release contains a number of bonus features. These include behind-the-scenes footage with Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Neal Cassady; excerpts from a Ginsberg memorial; and extended and updated interviews.

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* Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg at IMDb
* The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg DVD

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Allen Ginsberg

Poetry
collections|

* Howl and Other Poems (1956)
* Kaddish and Other Poems (1961)
* Reality Sandwiches (1963)
* Planet News (1968)
* The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1973)
* Mind Breaths (1978)
* White Shroud Poems: 1980–1985 (1986)

Poems|

* "Pull My Daisy" (late 1940s)
* "A Supermarket in California" (1956)
* "America" (1956)
* "Howl" (1956)
* "Ignu" (1958)
* "Kaddish" (1961)
* "Wichita Vortex Sutra" (1966)
* "September on Jessore Road" (1971)
* Iron Horse (1973)
* "Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox" (1975)
* "Plutonian Ode" (1978)

Other works|

* The Yage Letters (1963, letters)
* Songs of Innocence and Experience (1970 album)
* Deliberate Prose 1952–1995 (2000, essays)

Films|

* Pull My Daisy (1959)
* Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1993)
* The Source (1999)
* Beat (2000)
* Allen Ginsberg Live in London (2005)
* Corso: The Last Beat (2007)
* I'm Not There (2007)
* Chicago 10 (2009)
* The Chicago 8 (2010)
* Howl (2010)
* Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Related|

* Six Gallery reading
* Hydrogen Jukebox
* International Poetry Incarnation
* Beat Generation
* Beatnik
* Beat Hotel
* Central Park be-ins
* Counterculture of the 1960s
* Human Be-In
* National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
* Off the Road

People|

* Peter Orlovsky (partner)
* Louis Ginsberg (father)
* William S. Burroughs
* Lucien Carr
* Neal Cassady
* Gregory Corso
* Lawrence Ferlinghetti
* Jack Kerouac
* Gary Snyder

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