Live at Sundance: James Franco Howls

By Larry Mark

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywoodjew/item/live_at_sundance_james_franco_howls_20100123/

At the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, it seems as if there are more films of interest to the Hebrew tribe this year than in the past, and as it so happens, the most prominent ones all start with the letter “H.” They are: “Holy Rollers,” about Hasidic drug mules (more on this later); “Hesher,” which revolves around a family in the midst of tragedy; and “Howl, ” about the gay, Jewish Beat Generation poet “Allen Ginsberg” (James Franco of “Spider-Man” and “Milk”), who was tried for obscenity for his work.

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