The Beat Hotel

Name: The Beat Hotel
Genre: Biography, History, Documentary
Released: March 30, 2012
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 40

2012

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First Run Features | Release Date: March 30, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: 1957. The Latin Quarter, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel became a haven for a new breed of artists fleeing the conformity and censorship of America. The hotel soon turned into an epicenter of Beat writing that produced some of the most important works of the Beat generation. It came to be known as the Beat Hotel. Alan Govenar’s feature1957. The Latin Quarter, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel became a haven for a new breed of artists fleeing the conformity and censorship of America. The hotel soon turned into an epicenter of Beat writing that produced some of the most important works of the Beat generation. It came to be known as the Beat Hotel. Alan Govenar’s feature documentary The Beat Hotel explores this amazing place and time. (First Run Features)… Expand

Director: Alan Govenar

Genre(s): Biography, History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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Nicolas Rapold

Mar 29, 2012

The arts documentarian Alan Govenar takes his turn at burnishing the legend with The Beat Hotel, a mild-mannered primer centered on the cheapo Paris boardinghouse. Read full review

Joseph Jon Lanthier

Mar 28, 2012

Following the faux-opiate flecked suit of docs like One Fast Move or I'm Gone, The Beat Hotel can't quite rise above its obvious desire to appeal to the former demographic in spite of their apparently limited patience for historical exegesis. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Mar 27, 2012

The fact that it's far more concerned with burnishing an overly fetishized lit movement than serving as an in-depth exploration of the hotel's inhabitants may make you want to check out early. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Mar 29, 2012

Filmmaker Alan Govenar misses the mark in his attempt to document the historical French dwelling of once famous beatniks. Read full review

Nick Pinkerton

Mar 27, 2012

Scaling new heights of inessentiality is The Beat Hotel, which chronicles the period, roughly 1958–63. Read full review

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