Lawrence Ferlinghetti Movies

Lawrence Ferlinghetti videos DVDs purchase In what just might be the finest rock & roll concert film ever, THE LAST WALTZ celebrates the final performance by the Band (Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, and Garth Hudson). The show took place on Thanksgiving Day in 1976, at San Francisco's Winterland Arena--where the group had played their very first show more than 16 ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti DVD movie This powerful documentary shows Jack Kerouac's unique creative process and rise to fame as a writer, while also shedding light on his turbulent personal life and his decline to an alcoholism-related death. Kerouac is the Beat Generation icon best known for his counterculture manifesto ON THE ROAD. He possessed unparalleled genius, but also suffered from uncontrollable personal demons that ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti movies buy Cultural luminaries as varied as John Waters, Amiri Baraka, John Sayles, and Erica Jong join for the common cause of celebrating the career and influence of Barney Rosset. As the publisher of Grove Press and Evergreen Review, Rosset battled for the ending of censorship and brought many fascinating voices to the public ear. But the excitement didn't stop with ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti videos DVDs purchase Lawrence Ferlinghetti is one of America's best known and most respected poets, a major figure of the Beat poetry scene of the 1950s and the proprietor of City Lights Books, a bookstore and publishing house that has distributed important works from Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski and many more. Raised by an immigrant ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti movies buy Equal parts documentary and performance film, THE THIRD MIND finds former Doors organist Ray Manzarek and legendary Beat poet Michael McClure discussing the impact of Beat poetry on 1960s and '70s music while illustrating their observations with piano-spoken-word collaborations featuring footage of Allen ...