Howl
2010 · 84 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 13,543 VOTES · DIR. Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
Overview
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,321 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:22 "Howl" for Carl Solomon.
00:07:25 turpentine in Paradise Alley
00:10:20 he fails in rhetoric, of course
00:13:31 Unless you're out murdering people, you know
00:17:03 or, even their masculinity at times.
00:20:33 and stumbled to unemployment offices
00:24:04 into the back of some guy's car
00:27:10 flung out of the tenement wlndow
00:31:44 "I'm distracted with the wife
00:34:52 he is employing the jazz phraseology here
00:37:55 "but prepared to sweeten the snatch of the sunrise
00:41:05 Which takes on meaning in time, you know like...
00:44:32 in the goldhorn shadow of the band
00:48:18 What sphinx of cement and aluminum
00:51:35 Invisible suburbs!
00:53:55 The form.
00:56:23 where you accuse your doctors of insanity
00:59:09 Well, what...
01:01:12 And you reflected a long, long time
01:04:09 I don't understand it very well.
01:07:02 of physical survival
01:10:30 and ideas in his own words.
01:13:55 the reasons why everyone else is different and
01:16:40 Bodies!
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,321
Dialogue density15.7 lines / min
First line00:01:22
Final line01:16:40
Production Record
DirectorJeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5,000,000
Revenue$1,183,258
IMDb votes13,543