In the Grove

I couldn't tell you the last time I actually made it out to see a movie.  That will change next week with the release of No Country for Old Men.  And I'll definitely find a few extra hours to take in this one if it makes it to my stretch of the woods:

"Obscene," the chronicle of a publisher's fight to print the works of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Malcolm X, Che Guevara and others, has been picked up for worldwide distribution by Arthouse Films.

Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor's docu looks at Barney Rosset, the publisher of Grove Press and Evergreen Review who waged repeated U.S. court battles over freedom of the press. Interviews and footage with Amiri Baraka, Jim Carroll, Al Goldstein (no relation to the author), Erica Jong, Ray Manzarek, John Sayles, Gore Vidal, John Waters, Lenny Bruce and William S. Burroughs are featured.

"Obscene," produced by the directors' New York-based Double O Film Prods., examines Rossett's public fights and personal demons. The soundtrack includes music by Bob Dylan, the Doors, Patti Smith, Warren Zevon, X and Ella Fitzgerald. Arthouse plans a 2008 theatrical and DVD release.

Comments

[Justin B.]

I can't wait to see the Coen bros. movie as well. I read the book a few months ago and loved it to death.

Did you see this interview that was in Time recently, between Cormac and the Coen Brothers?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1673269,00.html

[Varg]

Even though it has a potential suck factor, I am a Beowulf geek and want to see the movie. Alas, no one to see it with.