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.
- Released
- 2012-03-30
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Alan Govenar
- TMDB rating
- 4.5/10 from 4 votes
Cast
- Jean-Jacques Lebel as Self
- Harold Chapman as Self
- Elliot Rudie as Self
- Regina Weinreich as Self
- Barry Miles as Self
- Peter Golding as Self
- Oliver Harris as Self
- 'Cyclops' Lester as Self
- Allen Ginsberg as Self (archive footage)
- William S. Burroughs as Self (archive footage)
- Gregory Corso as Self (archive footage)
- George Whitman as Self
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