Ferlinghetti

documentary

Routine doc on one of the founders of the beat movement in the fifties. He also founded and ran a radical book shop in San Francisco and a publishing house that has given voice to material outside the mainstream box. Oh, yeah...he's also written some mediocre poetry.

I suppose it's inevitable but in this film he comes across as a guy who's way too pleased with himself. Still, he made some hard choices when it took courage to do so and deserves thanks for sweeping away the stupid censorship rules that had hobbled American culture.

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