The Beat Hotel

“Howl” recreates Harold Chapman’s photograph

beatAdmin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:51:05 +0000

The documentary turned fiction film “Howl” will be premiering at Sundance tomorrow night, and I for one cant wait for it to get released.

I was also extremely interested to see that one of the promotional stills released from the film was a reenactment of one of Harold Chapman’s photos of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. Its a great photo, possibly one of his best of the couple. Harold tells a wonderful story about walking around the streets of Paris with the two and taking that photo which he felt completely summarized their respective viewpoints on the world, with Ginsberg looking happily outward at the people walking by and Orlovsky looking morosely up and away in his own thoughts. It looks like James Franco and Aaron Tveit have done a wonderful job recreating those expressions.

I can’t wait to see this film!

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Showing clips in New York

beatAdmin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:47:04 +0000

We’re going to be showing another set of clips from the movie at the New York Naked Lunch@50 event. We’ve got the clips we showed last time plus more, including footage we shot at the Paris event.

If you’re in the New York area on October 10th, come to the Little Theater at SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, mingle with the Beat scene, and watch a preview of our film!

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Heading to NL@50!

beatAdmin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:17:04 +0000

We’re headed to the Naked Lunch at 50 celebration in Paris this week to show some work in progress as well as to get a whole slew of new interviews. Everyone who is anyone who writes about William Burroughs will be there and we’re hoping to get lots of great stories about him and his time at the Beat Hotel.

We’re also going to get to film at the hotel and even stay in the attic room for one night! Woo Hoo! I cant wait to see if any ghosts will come and visit us.

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