The Beat Hotel
DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2012-07-17
Genre: Documentary
Director: Alan Govenar
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MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis: 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 feature documentary The Beat Hotel explores this amazing place and time.
  Source: First Run Features