Allen Ginsberg

1926–1997 · American poet and writer

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions.

Allen Ginsberg, in order

1. 1959 Pull My Daisy: acted · directed by Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank
2. 1964 Couch: acted · directed by Andy Warhol
3. 1965 Wholly Communion: acted · directed by Peter Whitehead
4. 1966 Chappaqua: acted · directed by Conrad Rooks
5. 1967 Dont Look Back: acted · directed by D. A. Pennebaker
6. 1968 Walden: acted · directed by Jonas Mekas
7. 1978 Renaldo and Clara: acted · directed by Bob Dylan
8. 1982 Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections: acted · directed by Jonas Mekas
9. 2005 No Direction Home (TV movie): acted · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 88%, audiences 95%
10. 2011 Magic Trip: acted · directed by Alex Gibney
11. 2016 Uncle Howard: acted · directed by Aaron Brookner
12. Stars behind the Iron Curtain: acted · directed by Pavel Jirásek