Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
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  • Summary: In this definitive documentary, director Christopher Felver crafts an incisive, sharply wrought portrait of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. One-on-one interviews with Ferlinghetti, made over the course of a decade, touch upon various characters and events that began to unfold in postwar America including the publication of Allen Ginsberg's Howl, William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, and Jack Kerouac's On the Road as well as the divisive events of the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, and this country's perilous march towards intellectual and political bankruptcy. [First Run Features]… Expand

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    Feb 8, 2013
    83
    Ferlinghetti’s home-brewed brand of anarchism is weirdly as American as apple pie.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    Feb 7, 2013
    75
    ‘A brave man and a brave poet.” That’s Bob Dylan talking about Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter, publisher, anarchist, civil libertarian — in this lively documentary by Christopher Felver.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    Feb 7, 2013
    40
    Considering the importance of the still active 93-year-old poet’s art and social activism, the film seems slight and discursive, more of an introduction than a definitive portrait.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Chuck Bowen
    Feb 8, 2013
    38
    Christopher Felver is too reverent to properly convey the invigoratingly profane, angry messiness of the sense of community that Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his peers too briefly brought to life.

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