While James Franco’s performance in 127 Hours has him on the likely-to-be-nominated list this year, his other real-life turn — as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Howl (out this week from Oscilloscope Laboratories) — deserves as much praise, even if the film itself was little-seen. The narrative debut of documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ( The Times of Harvey Milk , The Celluloid Closet ), Howl succeeds both at capturing the milieu in which Ginsberg wrote his most famous work and at bringing the poem itself to dazzling, cinematic life. So with Howl (one of my favorite films of 2010) coming to DVD and a long-awaited film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road slated to hit later this year from director Walter Salles, here’s a few of our favorite big-screen beatniks.
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James Franco in Howl and 5 Other Favorite Movie Beatniks
