An Invite & Free Passes: ‘Howl’ arrives in OKC…
See details below for your chance to win passes to attend a free screening of "Howl" this weekend at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
This weekend, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art will host the Oklahoma City premiere of “Howl,” the new feature film from directors Rob Epstein (“The Times of Harvey Milk”) and Jeffery Friedman (“The Celluloid Closet,” “Paragraph 175″) about the life and times of fifties beat poet Allen Ginsberg (James Franco).
His seminal (and first) poem, Ginsberg’s “Howl” faced obscenity charges upon its initial release and, soon after, a public trial.
A passionate affront to conformity, consumerism, and sexual repression, “Howl” soon became the voice of a generation, a point illustrated by its famous opening lines:
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix…
And, this Friday, Jan. 7 at 8pm, u-out, deadCENTER, and the OKCMOA cordially invite you and a guest to see the movie The New York Times calls “an exemplary work of literary criticism on film.”
“Not quite a biopic, not really a documentary and only loosely an adaptation, “Howl” does something that sounds simple until you consider how rarely it occurs in films of any kind. It takes a familiar, celebrated piece of writing and makes it come alive.”
To win your free passes, simply be one of the first 30 people to answer the three trivia questions below and email your responses to james.cooper.f@gmail.com. Include your first and last name along with the subject line “My HOWL responses.” U-out will announce the winners tomorrow at noon.
The winners will receive one “admit two” pass to attend Friday’s screening of “Howl.” Remember, correct responses trump quick responses.
And now, the trivia…
1. Which of the following prominent Beat writer(s) did Ginsberg befriend in New York?
a) Jack Kerouac
b) William S. Burroughs
2. With which of these people was Ginsberg romantically involved?
a) Neal Cassady
b) William S. Burroughs
3. Name the film at the top of u-out’s list of the top films of 2010.
a) Black Swan
b) The Social Network
c) The Kids Are All Right
*Don’t know the trivia answers? Use the interwebs, silly. For your health…;-)
"Howl"
1. I thought Ginsberg befriended both Burroughs and Kerouac while he was in New York. From what I have read, Ginsberg and Kerouac met while they were students at Columbia. During the weekends Kerouac and Ginsberg would go to the seedy side of New York and go to bars that were populated by junkies.
Burroughs was one of these junkies.
Or, I could be severely confused.
2. Neal Cassady (He was a slut)
3. “The Social Network”
Grady
Your opinion on whether the highly received “I Love You Phillip Morris” will show in OKC? Too risque?
—Zach