The read
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 13m.
Synopsis
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes64%
Metacritic52/100
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Christopher FelverDirector
Cast
- Lawrence FerlinghettiSelf
- Dennis HopperSelf
- Allen GinsbergSelf (archive footage)
- Billy CollinsSelf
- Michael McClureSelf
- Amiri BarakaSelf
- David AmramSelf
Themes
new york citysan francisco, californiaideologycultural revolutionpainterpoetbeatnik