The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the “freedom” that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.
Alan Govenar
Director
Jean-Jacques Lebel
Self
Harold Chapman
Self
Elliot Rudie
Self
Regina Weinreich
Self
Barry Miles
Self
Peter Golding
Self
Oliver Harris
Self
'Cyclops' Lester
Self
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
180° South72%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Seduced and Abandoned61%
Voyeur59%
McQueen74%
35 Up76%
Night Will Fall76%
Above Majestic73%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Sherman's March67%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Sidney70%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
My Mom Jayne79%
Harmontown66%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Public Speaking70%
Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life64%
