DVD Release Date: June 13, 2013
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: First Run Features
Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore.
The 2010 documentary film Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder takes an insightful and entertaining look at the American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
The movie explores Ferlinghetti’s vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and others reveal a rich mélange of characters and events that unfolded in postwar America, including the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Also covered is the 1953 opening of San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore by Ferlinghetti, which quickly evolved into an iconic institution symbolizing social change and literary freedom. Six decades later, it is still going.
Directed by Christopher Felver, the unrated Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder received a limited release to a theater in New York in February,...
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: First Run Features
Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore.
The 2010 documentary film Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder takes an insightful and entertaining look at the American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
The movie explores Ferlinghetti’s vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and others reveal a rich mélange of characters and events that unfolded in postwar America, including the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Also covered is the 1953 opening of San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore by Ferlinghetti, which quickly evolved into an iconic institution symbolizing social change and literary freedom. Six decades later, it is still going.
Directed by Christopher Felver, the unrated Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder received a limited release to a theater in New York in February,...
- 6/11/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Lawrence Ferlinghetti makes a brief appearance in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz — an appearance Christopher Felver wanted to include in his new documentary about the poet and First Amendment hero. But when Felver realized he couldn’t get the footage for what he felt was a reasonable price, he didn’t see it as a make or break moment. After all, as someone who’s been training his camera on Ferlinghetti for 30 years, Felver had plenty of raw material. Assembled from footage shot as far back as the 1980s, Felver’s Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder opens February 8 at the Quad Cinema …...
- 2/5/2013
- by Kevin Canfield
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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