Deluxe Two-Disc DVD Set
Disc One:
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg by Jerry Aronson 84 Minute Feature Documentary plus Two Hours of Extras.
Disc Two:
35 Interviews and the 1998 New York City Memorial for Allen Ginsberg.
Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned beat poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher—Allen Ginsberg’s remarkable life shaped the very soul of American counterculture.
For 25 years, Academy Award®-nominated director Jerry Aronson accumulated more than 120 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America’s greatest poets, author of Howl and other groundbreaking poems.
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and went on to enjoy success at theaters around the country. Now, the film has been digitally remastered in HD (pillarboxed at 4:3, the film's original aspect ratio) and will be available to stream for the first time. In all, the film reveals the last 70 years of American culture beginning with the Beat era in the post-war Forties and Fifties, continuing through the revolutionary Sixties and concluding with the uncertainty and possibility of current times.
The Deluxe Two-Disc DVD includes the remastered feature film and over six hours of bonus materials including never-before-seen materials made public because of the warm friendship that developed between subject and director, as well as exclusive and revealing interviews with his friends, family and contemporaries such as Bono, Johnny Depp, Philip Glass, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol and many others.
6 HOURS OF BONUS MATERIAL INCLUDES:
- Exclusive Interviews
- Featurette: The Making of The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
- Ginsberg reading selected poems
- Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac’s grave
- William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University
- Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg at City Lights bookstore
- The Making of the Music Video A Ballad of the Skeletons
- Ginsberg guides us through an exhibition of his photographs
- Excerpts from Scenes from Allen’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit by Jonas Mekas
- Ginsberg photo gallery
- Director’s photo gallery
- Memorial for Allen Ginsberg