Movie
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997 · 96 min
A warm, meandering hangout with two old poets wandering New York, trading verses and memories with gentle humour and quiet mortality.
- Directed by
- Gyula Gazdag
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Allen Ginsberg, Jonas Mekas, István Eörsi
- Overview
- Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag's fascinating documentary follows Hungarian poet, playwright and activist István Eörsi on a trip to the streets of New York to visit his friend and contemporary, the iconic beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Shot just two years before Ginsberg's death, the film follows the two friends as they share poetry and laughs, wandering the streets of the Lower East Manhattan, musing about the past and contemplating the future.
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- Directed by
- Gyula Gazdag
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Allen Ginsberg, Jonas Mekas, István Eörsi
