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Boulder filmmaker updates his documentary on Allen Ginsberg
By Jennie Dorris, For the Camera
September 15, 2004
U2's Bono only granted three media interviews in 2004, and one of them was to local filmmaker Jerry Aronson, to talk about his relationship with poet Allen Ginsberg.
"America needed a new language to describe it," says Bono in his interview, "and Ginsberg and the Beats created that necessary language. He was to words what Charlie Parker was to music."
Bono barely mentions U2 in the interview; he instead talks slowly and thoughtfully about his conversations with Ginsberg in the poet's New York apartment, about swapping books with him, and about Ginsberg's influence on Bob Dylan.
Bono's choice to sacrifice one of his few moments with the press to wax poetic about one of the most celebrated American poets isn't unique — Aronson got similar interviews with Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Johnson, Beck, Yoko Ono, and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore.
Aronson has been compiling footage on Ginsberg for 21 years, and has updated his 1993 VHS release of "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg" with footage of interviews he conducted with celebrities in the movie, literary, and music scenes after Ginsberg's death in 1997. A new three-disc DVD set of the film will be released early next year.
To read the entire article, visit: http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/movies/article/0,1713,BDC_2497_3179184,00.html
Many thanks to U2Kitten!
Boulder filmmaker updates his documentary on Allen Ginsberg
By Jennie Dorris, For the Camera
September 15, 2004
U2's Bono only granted three media interviews in 2004, and one of them was to local filmmaker Jerry Aronson, to talk about his relationship with poet Allen Ginsberg.
"America needed a new language to describe it," says Bono in his interview, "and Ginsberg and the Beats created that necessary language. He was to words what Charlie Parker was to music."
Bono barely mentions U2 in the interview; he instead talks slowly and thoughtfully about his conversations with Ginsberg in the poet's New York apartment, about swapping books with him, and about Ginsberg's influence on Bob Dylan.
Bono's choice to sacrifice one of his few moments with the press to wax poetic about one of the most celebrated American poets isn't unique — Aronson got similar interviews with Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Johnson, Beck, Yoko Ono, and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore.
Aronson has been compiling footage on Ginsberg for 21 years, and has updated his 1993 VHS release of "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg" with footage of interviews he conducted with celebrities in the movie, literary, and music scenes after Ginsberg's death in 1997. A new three-disc DVD set of the film will be released early next year.
To read the entire article, visit: http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/movies/article/0,1713,BDC_2497_3179184,00.html
Many thanks to U2Kitten!
