It’s really beautiful as a film but I think it feels sort of blank. The thing I love most about San Francisco is having someone tell a story about the city. It blows my mind that Vertigo and Dharma Bums are set in the same year in San Francisco. It’s hard to imagine Howl being read by Ginsberg for the first time in the time in the same city Kim Novak was wearing her famous charcoal grey suit. They are both so San Francisco for me and yet worlds apart. Crazy.
Allen Ginsberg, Robert LaVigne (naked) and friend in tree, Berkeley, 1958 taken by Harry Redl
Published on October 27, 2012 14:46