Another commentary on the Howl movie for New American Media by Russell Means
“I recently attended a film screening of Howl on a rooftop in New York City’s Lower East Side, shivering and alone in a crowd of hundreds. As a fan of the poem, I approached the film adaptation with some ambivalence; and as a fan of the actor James Franco, I worried that his performance would miss the essential splendor of the goofy, unrequited lover that Allen Ginsberg was at the time he penned Howl…”
[2012 update – regrettably the rest of this account is no longer available on-line]