Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Woodstock

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cle...

The Last Waltz

Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with probing backsta...

The Darwin Awards

After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job...

The Source

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of...

Merton: A Film Biography

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nea...

The Joy of Life

A blending of documentary and experimental narrative strategies, combining stunning 16mm landscape cinematograp...

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For wel...

The War Prayer

"In 1904, disgusted by the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War, Ma...

On the Road to Desolation

Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent s...

Be-In

Captures the spirit and essence of the great San Francisco Human Be-In of January 14, 1967. Ten thousand people...

Fernanda Pivano: A Farewell to Beat

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press

A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works lik...

Wholly Communion

A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great...

Goldmouth

Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti shows the walk he often took from his house in Portero Hill to his bookstore, City L...

The Beats: An Existential Comedy

A "film poem" that focuses on the Beat poetry scene of the late 1950s.

Have You Sold Your Dozen Roses?

Documentary about a rubbish dump by Allen Willis, Philip Greene, and David Myers.

The Last Tears from Planet Earth

A visionary voyage in a deserted land where the human race is a distant memory. This fusion of live footage, mi...

The Beat Bomb