Allen Ginsberg — Actor (43)
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
director: Jonas Mekas actor: Jonas Mekas / Stan Brakhage
other title: En el camino, de cuando en cuando, vislumbré breves momentos de belleza / As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
Take Your Pills (2018) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Take Your Pills
director: Alison Klayman actor: Eben Britton / Dr. Wendy Brown
other title: Hai preso le pillole? / Tag dine piller
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Lost, Lost, Lost
director: Jonas Mekas actor: Peter Beard / Ed Emshwiller
Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the struggle to build a new life in New York and his gradual discovery of a vibrant artistic community.
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) [Movie]
Lost, Lost, Lost
director: Jonas Mekas actor: Peter Beard / Ed Emshwiller
Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
director: Jonas Mekas actor: Timothy Leary / Ed Emshwiller
other title: Walden
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it forms an epic, personal meditation on community, creativity, and the passage of time.
Pull My Daisy (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban NeoDB
Pull My Daisy
director: Robert Frank / Alfred Leslie actor: Jack Kerouac / Allen Ginsberg
Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's Bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy is a film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.
Guns of the Trees (1961) [Movie] TMDB
Guns of the Trees
director: Jonas Mekas actor: Frances Stillman / Ben Carruthers
other title: I fucili degli alberi
A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living.
Howl (2010) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
Howl
director: Jeffrey Friedman / Rob Epstein actor: James Franco / Todd Rotondi
other title: Urlo / 嚎叫
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
director: Martin Scorsese actor: Bob Dylan / Allen Ginsberg
other title: Rolling Thunder Revue - Martin Scorsese racconta Bob Dylan / Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.
We Can't Go Home Again (1973) [Movie] TMDB
We Can't Go Home Again
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Nicholas Ray / Richard Bock
other title: Non possiamo tornare a casa / Nunca volveremos a casa
Nicholas Ray plays himself, acting as mentor, friend, and artistic inspiration to his students at Binghamton. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Dont Look Back (1967) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Dont Look Back
director: D. A. Pennebaker actor: Bob Dylan / Albert Grossman
other title: Don't Look Back / Se dig ikke tilbage - Bob Dylan
In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Price.
Before Stonewall (1984) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Before Stonewall
director: Greta Schiller / Robert Rosenberg actor: Rita Mae Brown / Red Jordan Arobateau
other title: Før Stonewall
New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots.
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
director: Nam June Paik / Shigeko Kubota actor: Allen Ginsberg / Allan Kaprow
The influence of Jewish fathers on their sons and the complexity of familial relationships are explored in a witty, poignant portrait of two artists. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (whose father Louis was a poet in his own right) and performance artist/sculptor Allan Kaprow (whose father is a high-powered lawyer) are the sons who struggle with and against the influences of these patriarchal figures.
Global Groove (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Global Groove
director: John Godfrey / Nam June Paik actor: John Cage / Russell Connor
Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw the potential in the television beyond it being a one-sided medium to present programs and commercials. Instead, he saw it more as a place to facilitate a free flow of information exchange. He wanted to strip away the limitations from copyright system and network restrictions and bring in a new TV culture where information could be accessed inexpensively and conveniently. The full length of the piece ran 28 minutes and was first broadcasted in January 30, 1974 on WNET.
Herostratus (1967) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Herostratus
director: Don Levy actor: Michael Gothard / Gabriella Licudi
When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.
Ciao! Manhattan (1973) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ciao! Manhattan
director: David Weisman / John Palmer actor: Edie Sedgwick / Wesley Hayes
other title: Addio! Manhattan
Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.
Be-In (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Be-In
director: Jerry Abrams actor: Allen Ginsberg / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Captures the spirit and essence of the great San Francisco Human Be-In of January 14, 1967. Ten thousand people imbued with peace, love and euphoria. Set to hard rock such as only San Francisco blues can produce. BE-IN contains Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Timothy Leary, Michael McClure, Lenore Kandel and Buddha. Music by Blue Cheer.
Yippie (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Yippie
director: Allen Ginsberg / Abbie Hoffman actor: Allen Ginsberg / Abbie Hoffman
The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary group opposed to war and the status quo of American culture. Known for using theatrics and humor to advocate social change, several Yippies were notably on trial as the Chicago 7. Primarily consisting of footage from the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago which sparked massive demonstrations that were met by violence and hysteria caused by the police. This film also includes found newsreel footage as well as Pigasus - the pig the Yippies advanced as a candidate for President of the United States.
Burroughs: The Movie (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Burroughs: The Movie
director: Howard Brookner actor: William S. Burroughs / Mortimer Burroughs
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, and William Burroughs Jr.
Hare Krishna (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hare Krishna
director: Jonas Mekas actor: Srila Prabhupada / Barbara Rubin
Jonas Mekas captures an afternoon in New York as a Hare Krishna group fills the streets with chanting and song. Filmed with his characteristic freewheeling style and later incorporated into Walden, the short stands as an impressionistic sketch of spiritual fervor and Mekas’s participatory approach to cinema.