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HOWL + NAKED LUNCH Beat Generation Double bill

HOWL + NAKED LUNCH (on 35mm film) a Literary Double Bill with Live Spoken word + Jazz Featuring local Slam Champions RC Weslowski, Sid Macon, Al Mader, Kelsey Savage hosted by Sean McGarragle

SAT FEB 19 Doors at 7pm - Two great films inspired by two literary classics from two godfathers of The Beat Generation, Alan Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.

7:45PM HOWL is a 2010 American experimental film which explores both the Six Gallery debut and the 1957 obscenity trial of 20th century American poet Allen Ginsberg's noted poem Howl. The film is written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and stars James Franco as Ginsberg. As Alan Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.

9:45PM NAKED LUNCH By director David Croneberg
Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in an Islamic port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books.

$12 in advance $15 at the door