The Beat Hotel
Documentary
π¬ Critics Choice Nominee
Director
Alan Govenar
Status
Released
Release Date
2012-03-30
Storyline
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 Ginsbergβs 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 βfreedomβ that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.
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