Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 331

September 1, 2017Simon Pettet

[Allen Ginsberg, 1968.  Photo: Larry Keenan Jr.]

More Ginsberg memories (see last week) – Judy Goldhaft, director of The Planet Drum Foundation, recollects an unusual seder:

“For the first time since the crucifixion, there was a total lunar eclipse on the night of the seder in 1968. That apparently happened also on the night of the Last Supper and we were all aware of this. We had a seder near Duboce Park. [San Francisco] The Hells Angels were there and the Diggers were there. My son asked the Four Questions, and…asked  Allen Ginsberg [as tradition … Read More

Bob Dylan Films Allen Ginsberg

September 4, 2015admin

Photos Allen Ginsberg animated GIF

Well, guess who it was who was responsible for taking these ecstatic images of A.G, 1967,dancing for joy, in a London hotel-room?  – Bob Dylan!Donn Pennebaker‘s groundbreaking  cinéma vérité Dylan documentary, Don’t Look Back is about to be re-released (this coming November – November 25) as a two-disc DVD set, as part of the authorative and respected Criterion Collection.  See all the information – here. and Pennebaker’s use of a personally-converted sixteen-millimeter Auricon camera, to make it more mobile, to make hand-held shooting easier, was just one of the technical “secrets” (innovations) of the film.Like Pennebaker handing … Read More