Philomene Long’s The Beats – An Exisitential Comedy
We continue our spotlighting of video now available via the digitalization of Allen’s Stanford University archives.
Today – Philomene Long & (Jay D Kugelman)’s LA-based documentary from 1980, The Beats: An Existential Comedy
The video is available – here
[Stuart Z Perkoff appearing on Groucho Marx’s tv show, You Bet Your Life – from The Beats – An Existential Comedy]
Initially conceived as a tribute to the poet Stuart Z Perkoff (1930-1974), it developed into, significantly, more – much more.
As one reviewer had it, “The film is not so much a historical documentary of the period as a recreation … Read More