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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 19 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 19 m

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 un...

Directed By: Christopher Felver

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 19 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 19 m

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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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 un...

Directed By: Christopher Felver

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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83
Feb 8, 2013
Ferlinghetti’s home-brewed brand of anarchism is weirdly as American as apple pie.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 7, 2013
‘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.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 7, 2013
As big a bouquet as the film is to Mr. Ferlinghetti, it is also a mash note to City Lights, a cultural touchstone and North Beach landmark.
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40
Feb 7, 2013
Sadly, the film gets mired in traditionalism, something the man himself always railed against. But worth a look for seeing intellectual bravery (still) at work.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 6, 2013
Christopher Felver's stumbling hagiography Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder does no wrong by its celebrated subject-- but it never illuminates him, either.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 5, 2013
Christopher Felver, while an inspired photographer, is not the director for the job; he dutifully ticks off Ferlinghetti’s major achievements — such as the founding of North Beach’s literary mecca, City Lights — yet never imbues his life with anything more than lefty zeal.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW
38
Feb 8, 2013
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.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Felver Photography, Physical Features
Release Date Feb 8, 2013
Duration 1 h 19 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://firstrunfeatures.com/ferlinghetti/
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