Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" made into film

Curious to see what poetry books are available for ereaders, I stumbled across an announcement for a film retelling the story of Allen Ginsberg's hit Howl. From the trailer it appears to be a pretty good movie.

Here's the synopsis from moviestrailer.org:

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.

And now, the trailer.


Howl | Movie Trailers

The IMDB entry gives the release date as September 24, 2010.