Caleb Carr, whose bestselling 1994 novel The Alienist made the author a household name who saw the book adapted into a 10-episode limited series on TNT, died of cancer Thursday at his home in Cherry Plains, New York. He was 68.
His death was announced by his brother Ethan Carr to The New York Times.
Carr was born on August 2, 1955, into a New York City family haunted by violence and abuse: His father was Lucien Carr, a Beat Generation journalist convicted of manslaughter for the 1944 killing of what today would be deemed a sexual predator. The fatal stabbing, which made headlines and history not least because Lucien’s friend and Columbia University classmate Jack Kerouac helped dispose of the knife, was depicted in the 2013 film Kill Your Darlings starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan.
Caleb Carr would later say that the incident, along his own childhood abuse at the hands of his father,...
His death was announced by his brother Ethan Carr to The New York Times.
Carr was born on August 2, 1955, into a New York City family haunted by violence and abuse: His father was Lucien Carr, a Beat Generation journalist convicted of manslaughter for the 1944 killing of what today would be deemed a sexual predator. The fatal stabbing, which made headlines and history not least because Lucien’s friend and Columbia University classmate Jack Kerouac helped dispose of the knife, was depicted in the 2013 film Kill Your Darlings starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan.
Caleb Carr would later say that the incident, along his own childhood abuse at the hands of his father,...
- 5/24/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Hulu June 2024 premiere schedule has been announced and can be viewed below. The streaming service has also revealed the titles that will be leaving next month.
This Pride Month, see the joy and feel the love with LGBTQ+ shows, movies, and even Pride parades streaming on Hulu in June. The celebration includes the streaming premieres of I Kissed a Boy, the UK’s first-ever gay dating show, and season two of the delightfully twisted Wreck.
You’ll also get a dazzling performance from pop superstar and LGBTQ+ ally Kylie Minogue in the U.S. premiere of An Audience with Kylie, a tale of the rise of a style icon in Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, FX’s The Bear Season 3, Shoresy Season 3, the documentary Brats, and more.
Hulu gives viewers instant access to current shows from every major U.S. broadcast network, libraries of hit TV series and films, and acclaimed Hulu Originals.
This Pride Month, see the joy and feel the love with LGBTQ+ shows, movies, and even Pride parades streaming on Hulu in June. The celebration includes the streaming premieres of I Kissed a Boy, the UK’s first-ever gay dating show, and season two of the delightfully twisted Wreck.
You’ll also get a dazzling performance from pop superstar and LGBTQ+ ally Kylie Minogue in the U.S. premiere of An Audience with Kylie, a tale of the rise of a style icon in Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, FX’s The Bear Season 3, Shoresy Season 3, the documentary Brats, and more.
Hulu gives viewers instant access to current shows from every major U.S. broadcast network, libraries of hit TV series and films, and acclaimed Hulu Originals.
- 5/20/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
An Oscar winner, a major Oscar nominee, two more pieces of Oscar bait, and a few movies that never got anywhere near Oscar. Welcome to What to Watch. We don’t play favorites. Oh, wait, yes we do. You should definitely rent or buy the titles on this first page. The second page is more optional.
Frozen
Photo credit: Disney
“Frozen”
The best Disney movie since “The Lion King” (Disney, not Pixar), “Frozen” gets the lavish Mouse House treatment. There’s no better studio for family releases and they’re not about to slack on one of the biggest moneymakers of their existence. We are Just getting started with “Frozen”. You know how “Beauty & The Beast” and “The Lion King” became industries unto themselves? Spawning Broadway musicals, theme park rides, new shows, straight-to-dvd sequels, etc.? “Frozen” will end up the same way. If you have a kid, you won’t...
Frozen
Photo credit: Disney
“Frozen”
The best Disney movie since “The Lion King” (Disney, not Pixar), “Frozen” gets the lavish Mouse House treatment. There’s no better studio for family releases and they’re not about to slack on one of the biggest moneymakers of their existence. We are Just getting started with “Frozen”. You know how “Beauty & The Beast” and “The Lion King” became industries unto themselves? Spawning Broadway musicals, theme park rides, new shows, straight-to-dvd sequels, etc.? “Frozen” will end up the same way. If you have a kid, you won’t...
- 3/18/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
For Kill Your Darlings, first-time director John Krokidas finagled a spectacular Young Hollywood cast to echo the gathering of Allen Ginsberg and other young Beat poets at Columbia University before they became famous. Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, Boardwalk Empire’s Jack Huston, and Elizabeth Olsen play the coterie of ambitious free thinkers whose mission to rewrite the rules of literature is dramatically impacted by a real-life murder in 1944.
For the lead role of Ginsberg, Krokidas turned to Radcliffe, who won over the young director by insisting on auditioning even though the Harry Potter star could probably have had...
For the lead role of Ginsberg, Krokidas turned to Radcliffe, who won over the young director by insisting on auditioning even though the Harry Potter star could probably have had...
- 3/14/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 18, 2014
Price: DVD $Tba, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $Tba
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2) might look a bit like Harry Potter with his glasses in Kill Your Darlings, but don’t be fooled. He’s playing beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg.
Set in 1944, the biography movie tells the story of Ginsberg at Columbia, where he finds stuffy tradition clashing with modern ideas and attitudes embodied by Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan, Chronicle). Shy, unsophisticated Ginsberg is fascinated by Carr and drawn into his hard-drinking, jazz-clubbing friends, including William Burroughs (Ben Foster, Contraband), the dissolute scion of a wealthy family, and David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall, TV’s Dexter), an older hanger-on who resents Ginsberg’s position as Carr’s new sidekick. Everything gets shaken up when there’s a murder.
Based on true events, Kill Your Darlings follows...
Price: DVD $Tba, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $Tba
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2) might look a bit like Harry Potter with his glasses in Kill Your Darlings, but don’t be fooled. He’s playing beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg.
Set in 1944, the biography movie tells the story of Ginsberg at Columbia, where he finds stuffy tradition clashing with modern ideas and attitudes embodied by Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan, Chronicle). Shy, unsophisticated Ginsberg is fascinated by Carr and drawn into his hard-drinking, jazz-clubbing friends, including William Burroughs (Ben Foster, Contraband), the dissolute scion of a wealthy family, and David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall, TV’s Dexter), an older hanger-on who resents Ginsberg’s position as Carr’s new sidekick. Everything gets shaken up when there’s a murder.
Based on true events, Kill Your Darlings follows...
- 1/30/2014
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
To mark the release of Kill Your Darlings in cinemas Friday 6th December, one lucky HeyUGuys reader could become the proud owner of this poster signed by Daniel Radcliffe!
Set in the 1940’s during the early days of the literary revolution, Kill Your Darlings is a true crime thriller based on the previously untold story of a murder that implicated the men who went on to become the great poets of the Beat Generation; Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Based on actual events and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Kill Your Darlings tells how these young men first meet at Columbia University in 1944. A story of friendship, obsession, jealousy and genius, their self-proclaimed brilliance is stained by the brutal murder of David Kammerer, which both consecrated and fractured their early fellowship.
Please note: This competition is open to...
Set in the 1940’s during the early days of the literary revolution, Kill Your Darlings is a true crime thriller based on the previously untold story of a murder that implicated the men who went on to become the great poets of the Beat Generation; Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Based on actual events and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Kill Your Darlings tells how these young men first meet at Columbia University in 1944. A story of friendship, obsession, jealousy and genius, their self-proclaimed brilliance is stained by the brutal murder of David Kammerer, which both consecrated and fractured their early fellowship.
Please note: This competition is open to...
- 12/5/2013
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Daniel Radcliffe shakes off the last vestiges of Potter with a potent, emotional performance in Allen Ginsberg biopic Kill Your Darlings, which reaches UK screens this week.
The drama picks up with a 17-year-old Ginsberg as he embarks on his first year at Columbia University. There he meets charismatic rebel Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), who introduces him to fellow Beat poets William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac and becomes his first great unrequited love.
Digital Spy sat down with Radcliffe and DeHaan to discuss their research for the roles of Ginsberg and Carr, and their much-discussed "hot" kissing scene.
Dexter's Michael C Hall also stars as Carr's predatory former mentor David Kammerer, while Ben Foster, Jack Huston and Elizabeth Olsen play Burroughs, Kerouac and Edie Parker respectively.
Radcliffe has just begun filming Frankenstein opposite James McAvoy, and DeHaan will next be seen in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Kill Your Darlings' Daniel Radcliffe,...
The drama picks up with a 17-year-old Ginsberg as he embarks on his first year at Columbia University. There he meets charismatic rebel Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), who introduces him to fellow Beat poets William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac and becomes his first great unrequited love.
Digital Spy sat down with Radcliffe and DeHaan to discuss their research for the roles of Ginsberg and Carr, and their much-discussed "hot" kissing scene.
Dexter's Michael C Hall also stars as Carr's predatory former mentor David Kammerer, while Ben Foster, Jack Huston and Elizabeth Olsen play Burroughs, Kerouac and Edie Parker respectively.
Radcliffe has just begun filming Frankenstein opposite James McAvoy, and DeHaan will next be seen in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Kill Your Darlings' Daniel Radcliffe,...
- 12/5/2013
- Digital Spy
The HeyUGuys Interview: John Krokidas discusses his bond with Daniel Radcliffe on Kill Your Darlings
It’s somewhat hard to believe that Kill Your Darlings is director John Krokidas’ debut feature film, in what is an accomplished, compelling piece of cinema, of a scandalous murder that drew the renowned poets of the beat generation together. A story we can’t quite believe we haven’t seen on the big screen before – a sentiment that Krokidas echoes himself.
We had the pleasure of sitting down to discuss the title with him – and in spite of his tonsillitis he was suffering from, he discusses the conspiracy theories surrounding this incredible tale and why he chose to tell it from Allen Ginsberg’s perspective as opposed to Lucien Carr’s. He also tells us about his intimate bond he formed with lead star Daniel Radcliffe, and how this cast dramatically changed, from once having Jesse Eisenberg in the main role.
Were you aware of these incredible set of...
We had the pleasure of sitting down to discuss the title with him – and in spite of his tonsillitis he was suffering from, he discusses the conspiracy theories surrounding this incredible tale and why he chose to tell it from Allen Ginsberg’s perspective as opposed to Lucien Carr’s. He also tells us about his intimate bond he formed with lead star Daniel Radcliffe, and how this cast dramatically changed, from once having Jesse Eisenberg in the main role.
Were you aware of these incredible set of...
- 12/3/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This month sees a high-profile new release from Disney, a period drama starring Daniel Radcliffe and an eagerly-awaited comedy sequel that brings back a certain mustachioed San Diego news anchor.
Digital Spy rounds up the five movies you need to see this December below...
Frozen
Release date: December 6
Why you should see it: Disney rediscovered some of its old magic with recent offerings Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph, but the House of Mouse well and truly hits it out the park with their take on Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen. We've already seen Frozen (and given it an emphatic thumbs up), so start preparing yourself for a brand new all-singing, all-dancing Disney classic.
Kill Your Darlings
Release date: December 6
Why you should see it: Beat generation writers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs find themselves pulled into the murder of David Kammerer in this period drama from director John Krokidas.
Digital Spy rounds up the five movies you need to see this December below...
Frozen
Release date: December 6
Why you should see it: Disney rediscovered some of its old magic with recent offerings Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph, but the House of Mouse well and truly hits it out the park with their take on Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen. We've already seen Frozen (and given it an emphatic thumbs up), so start preparing yourself for a brand new all-singing, all-dancing Disney classic.
Kill Your Darlings
Release date: December 6
Why you should see it: Beat generation writers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs find themselves pulled into the murder of David Kammerer in this period drama from director John Krokidas.
- 12/1/2013
- Digital Spy
All right movie geeks, it’s true-life movie origin story time. I’m referring to a sort of pre-greatness biography flick. Of course, when the origin word is brought up you may first think of the comic book heroes that populate multiplexes during the warmer months (well, now a certain Asgardian is establishing a Fall beach head). Said characters usually begin their film or comic series with the story of what happened before they donned cape and mask. And Superman even has a long-running spin-off set in his own past, as Superboy. The movies have done the same thing with real folks many times over the years. There’s Young Mr. Lincoln and Young Tom Edison to Butch And Sundance: The Early Years to Nowhere Boy (about a pre-”fab four” John Lennon). The new film Kill Your Darlings takes us to the college years of famed beat poet Allan Ginsberg of later “Howl” fame.
- 11/27/2013
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Daniel Radcliffe has said that he would like to die on a film set.
The actor explained that growing up while shooting the Harry Potter movies led him to associate backlots with "immense comfort and familiarity".
"There's an assumption that people make where if you've grown up on a set, surely you must be tired of that or want to go somewhere else," he told The Guardian.
"But actually, I've never known anything but being on film sets and I love them. They are places of immense comfort and familiarity.
"I hope I get to die on one. Honestly. [Though] later rather than sooner," he added.
Radcliffe - who famously appeared naked on stage in Peter Shaffer's Equus and played an orphaned outsider in The Cripple of Inishmaan - can currently be seen in beat generation film Kill Your Darlings as poet Allen Ginsberg.
Kill Your Darlings follows a group...
The actor explained that growing up while shooting the Harry Potter movies led him to associate backlots with "immense comfort and familiarity".
"There's an assumption that people make where if you've grown up on a set, surely you must be tired of that or want to go somewhere else," he told The Guardian.
"But actually, I've never known anything but being on film sets and I love them. They are places of immense comfort and familiarity.
"I hope I get to die on one. Honestly. [Though] later rather than sooner," he added.
Radcliffe - who famously appeared naked on stage in Peter Shaffer's Equus and played an orphaned outsider in The Cripple of Inishmaan - can currently be seen in beat generation film Kill Your Darlings as poet Allen Ginsberg.
Kill Your Darlings follows a group...
- 11/24/2013
- Digital Spy
Oscar season is always a time for moviegoer euphoria and repugnance. Yes, we get to see a bunch of fab movies, but we’re also aware of which films will end up getting more (and perhaps undeserved) Academy attention thanks to star power and studio campaigning. For every warranted triumph like 12 Years a Slave, there are underdog crowd-pleasers like Enough Said, Philomena, and my pick for the true underrated gem of the year, Kill Your Darlings.
With a charming Daniel Radcliffe as a young Allen Ginsberg during his days at Columbia, the film explores the beginnings of the Beat movement with Ginsberg’s pals Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster), and a defiant beaut named Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), who murders longtime acquaintance David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) under mysterious circumstances. The movie is as much a bildungsroman of Ginsberg as it is a pulpy caper, and...
With a charming Daniel Radcliffe as a young Allen Ginsberg during his days at Columbia, the film explores the beginnings of the Beat movement with Ginsberg’s pals Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster), and a defiant beaut named Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), who murders longtime acquaintance David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) under mysterious circumstances. The movie is as much a bildungsroman of Ginsberg as it is a pulpy caper, and...
- 11/18/2013
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
A story of friendship, obsession, jealousy and genius, their self-proclaimed brilliance.
Based on actual events and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Kill Your Darlings tells how Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac first meet at Columbia University in 1944. A story of friendship, obsession, jealousy and genius, their self-proclaimed brilliance is stained by the brutal murder of David Kammerer, which both consecrated and fractured their early fellowship.
In cinemas from 6 December 2013.
Read beat generation expert Jonah Raskin’s verdict on Daniel Radcliffe’s representation of Allen Ginsberg here.
Based on actual events and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Kill Your Darlings tells how Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac first meet at Columbia University in 1944. A story of friendship, obsession, jealousy and genius, their self-proclaimed brilliance is stained by the brutal murder of David Kammerer, which both consecrated and fractured their early fellowship.
In cinemas from 6 December 2013.
Read beat generation expert Jonah Raskin’s verdict on Daniel Radcliffe’s representation of Allen Ginsberg here.
- 11/14/2013
- by admin
- Pure Movies
Kill Your Darlings
Written by John Krokidas and Austin Bunn
Directed by John Krokidas
USA, 2013
John Krokidas’ film debut Kill Your Darlings follows the turbulent university years of famed American beat writers Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), and William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster). Set in the early 1940s at Columbia University and on the streets of New York City, the film centers around the murder of David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) and the months that led up to it.
The film does an excellent job showcasing the talented actors chosen to play these renowned writers. It was quite a risk to employ Radcliffe, whose fame began by playing the title role in the popular Harry Potter film series, and Hall, who has manipulated audiences for years playing good-guy serial killer on Showtime’s Dexter, yet it works out brilliantly. Chemistry has a lot...
Written by John Krokidas and Austin Bunn
Directed by John Krokidas
USA, 2013
John Krokidas’ film debut Kill Your Darlings follows the turbulent university years of famed American beat writers Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), and William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster). Set in the early 1940s at Columbia University and on the streets of New York City, the film centers around the murder of David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) and the months that led up to it.
The film does an excellent job showcasing the talented actors chosen to play these renowned writers. It was quite a risk to employ Radcliffe, whose fame began by playing the title role in the popular Harry Potter film series, and Hall, who has manipulated audiences for years playing good-guy serial killer on Showtime’s Dexter, yet it works out brilliantly. Chemistry has a lot...
- 11/8/2013
- by Trish Ferris
- SoundOnSight
Whether you know Michael C. Hall from "Dexter" or "Six Feet Under," the result is the same: you know he's a terrific actor, one of those guys with the unique ability to bring in the audience, no matter what the subject matter.
It's always great when Hall ventures into movies, because he manages to bring that small-screen gravitas to a bigger forum. In "Kill Your Darlings," Hall plays real-life character David Kammerer, an oft-overlooked historical figure who played a prominent part in the formation of the Beat poet group -- among them, the famous writers Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster).
Moviefone Canada caught up with Hall at the Toronto Film Festival, where the film was screening. He spoke about the Beat poets, his co-stars, and if it was difficult to play a real-life character.
Moviefone: How familiar were you with the Beat...
It's always great when Hall ventures into movies, because he manages to bring that small-screen gravitas to a bigger forum. In "Kill Your Darlings," Hall plays real-life character David Kammerer, an oft-overlooked historical figure who played a prominent part in the formation of the Beat poet group -- among them, the famous writers Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster).
Moviefone Canada caught up with Hall at the Toronto Film Festival, where the film was screening. He spoke about the Beat poets, his co-stars, and if it was difficult to play a real-life character.
Moviefone: How familiar were you with the Beat...
- 11/8/2013
- by Chris Jancelewicz
- Moviefone
Chicago – The movies has been berry berry good to 1950s Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsburg. For the sixth time since 2009, his persona is actualized on celluloid – this time by Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe – in the coming-of-age part of the poet’s story, “Kill Your Darlings.”
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The title refers to the rejection of past heroes, in this case to forge the new Beat Generation of literary influencers after World War II. There is a murder as well, one of the weaker subplots of this intriguing before-the-beginning overview of Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and their support system. Radcliffe is up to the task, he puts a terrific spin on the Ginsburg sensibility, including a surprising sidebar involving his family. First time director (and script co-writer) John Krokidas shows a frenetic flair in using the camera as a storyteller, but doesn’t maintain the quick-cut pacing as the atmosphere grows more terse.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The title refers to the rejection of past heroes, in this case to forge the new Beat Generation of literary influencers after World War II. There is a murder as well, one of the weaker subplots of this intriguing before-the-beginning overview of Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and their support system. Radcliffe is up to the task, he puts a terrific spin on the Ginsburg sensibility, including a surprising sidebar involving his family. First time director (and script co-writer) John Krokidas shows a frenetic flair in using the camera as a storyteller, but doesn’t maintain the quick-cut pacing as the atmosphere grows more terse.
- 11/1/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Daniel Radcliffe didn’t exactly have a normal childhood. While most 11-year-olds were having awkward first dances to embarrassing songs and developing their own pop-culture preferences, he was already starring in one of the most successful franchises of all time.
Most of EW’s Pop Culture Personality Test questions work so well because they force actors to recall a time before fame — when they might have actually written a fan letter to a celebrity idol. While that didn’t really exist in such a pure form for the now 24-year-old star of Kill Your Darlings (currently playing in limited release...
Most of EW’s Pop Culture Personality Test questions work so well because they force actors to recall a time before fame — when they might have actually written a fan letter to a celebrity idol. While that didn’t really exist in such a pure form for the now 24-year-old star of Kill Your Darlings (currently playing in limited release...
- 10/25/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW.com - PopWatch
Review: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan lead stellar cast in Beat Generation drama Kill Your Darlings. Daniel Radcliffe plays Beat writer Allen Ginsberg to perfection in lively film. The founding of the Beat Generation and the true crime that shaped the young writers in 1944 New York City comes to vivid life thanks to an impressive ensemble cast that brings extra luster to first-time feature filmmaker John Krokidas’ period drama Kill Your Darlings. Freshman Columbia student Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) and friends William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) find themselves caught up in the crime of the year when their friend and Columbia student Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan) stands accused of murdering aspiring writer and Carr’s would-be lover David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall)...
- 10/25/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Now playing in New York and Los Angeles, Kill Your Darlings is the debut feature from director John Krokidas, who also provided the screenplay with his best friend and creative partner Austin Bunn. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston and Ben Foster, the film details the untold "origin story" of the Beats from the point of the view of a young Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe). Beginning college at Columbia University in 1943, Ginsberg meets Lucien Carr (DeHaan), a charismatic young man who ultimately introduces the poet to Jack Kerouac (Huston) and William S. Burroughs (Foster), but who is also soon arrested for the murder of the group's mutual acquaintance, David Kammerer (Hall) in a story that heralded the beginning of the Beat generation....
- 10/21/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Editor’s note: Our review of Kill Your Darlings originally ran during this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but we’re re-posting it as the film opens today in theatrical release. In Kill Your Darlings, Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) is an aspiring writer but one that is trapped under the weight of his successful poet father (portrayed with a reserved performance from the usually comedic David Cross) and his mentally unstable mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh). When Allen gets into Columbia, his father encourages him to go and become the writer he has always longed to be. But in his first poetry class, Allen rubs his professor the wrong way when he questions why poems have to rhyme and follow a certain structure. In doing so, he also catches the eye of one of his fellow students, Lucien “Lu” Carr (Dane DeHaan). Allen makes his way down to his room one night and the two share a drink...
- 10/18/2013
- by Allison Loring
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
It was time to don berets and turtlenecks in London last night as Beat poet drama Kill Your Darlings premiered. Then again, since this story of young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) and friends is a sort of origin story, perhaps you can wait until you've seen it to dress appropriately. Either way, the film by John Krokidas premiered at the BFI London Film Festival last night with Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan and Jack Huston in attendance. DeHaan plays Lucien, an outrageous and apparently uninhibited student who befriends the young Ginsberg as he arrives at Columbia university in New York City. Lucien introduces Allen to cool new literary friends like William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston). But Lucien's older friend, David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) is inclined to object to his friendship with Ginsberg and a tragedy soon draws the group together.Radcliffe, DeHaan, Huston and Krokidas were...
- 10/18/2013
- EmpireOnline
Director: John Krokidas; Screenwriter Austin Bunn, John Krokidas; Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, Elizabeth Olsen; Running time: 104 mins; Certificate: Tbc
Despite the unruly black hair, the round glasses and the wide-eyed sense of wonder upon entering a brave new world, the most impressive thing about Daniel Radcliffe's turn as Allen Ginsberg in intoxicating melodrama Kill Your Darlings is that you don't for a moment see Harry Potter. Contrary to the expectations of many, it's taken him less than two years to shake off the pall of franchise typecasting.
Set several years prior to 2010's James Franco-starring Howl, this remarkably assured debut from director John Krokidas tracks the young Ginsberg's early days at Columbia, his infatuation with fellow student Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), and the murder that would test his bond with fellow Beat writers William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac...
Despite the unruly black hair, the round glasses and the wide-eyed sense of wonder upon entering a brave new world, the most impressive thing about Daniel Radcliffe's turn as Allen Ginsberg in intoxicating melodrama Kill Your Darlings is that you don't for a moment see Harry Potter. Contrary to the expectations of many, it's taken him less than two years to shake off the pall of franchise typecasting.
Set several years prior to 2010's James Franco-starring Howl, this remarkably assured debut from director John Krokidas tracks the young Ginsberg's early days at Columbia, his infatuation with fellow student Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), and the murder that would test his bond with fellow Beat writers William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac...
- 10/17/2013
- Digital Spy
Like many of its characters, Kill Your Darlings is a film that lacks a narrative direction. It never seems quite sure what story it wants to tell. Some will probably argue the film itself is then a metaphor for said characters, but I have a hard time subscribing to that theory just as much as I wasn't able to buy it with Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring earlier this year. If that's the case, so be it, but it doesn't take away from the hollowness I was left with once the credits started to roll. At the outset, our central focus is a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe). We're introduced to his father (David Cross) and his psychologically ill mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and learn he was just accepted into Columbia University, where the bulk of the film takes place. He seems to know he wants to be a...
- 10/16/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
In Kill Your Darlings, Dane DeHaan plays the dangerously alluring Lucien Carr, a young man with a tendency to use and discard people. His most famous victim was Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), who met Carr his freshman year at Columbia; his most tragic was David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall), who died at Carr's hand. The movie, in theaters today, also stars Ben Foster as William Burroughs and Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac. Vulture spoke with DeHaan about researching his role, maybe doing a buddy comedy with his best buddy, Daniel, and growing up a Ben Folds fan.Daniel told us you pummeled him this weekend in fantasy football. Let’s talk about that. Does he get nerdy? He knows a lot about American football. Will you get a glory lap? It’s just, like, bragging rights. Now I get to talk about it all day long, and he has to...
- 10/16/2013
- by Katie Van Syckle
- Vulture
How is it that no one had yet made the Lucien Carr–David Kammerer murder story into a movie? It's an irresistible tall tale from the Beat back catalogue—how, once upon a time in the mid-'40s, the finger-snapping legends-to-be (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs) all coalesced around the radiant rebel Carr while he was a Columbia undergrad and discovered hard partying and transcendental literary pretension, even as lovelorn chickenhawk Kammerer hounded the golden boy until Carr was forced to knife the older man and dump his body in the Hudson. Just picture it: wine, hash, jazz dives, pre-Beat manifestos, taboos sliced and diced, barely sublimated homosexual passion, all climaxing in a capital crime that scatters the group and sends Carr to prison.
Fascination with all th...
Fascination with all th...
- 10/16/2013
- Village Voice
John Krokidas makes his feature film directorial debut with Kill Your Darlings, a biographical drama that looks at the lives of four famous poets (Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lucien Caar and William Burroughs) and the formation of the beat movement, which they were at the forefront of.
The film focuses mainly on Ginsberg as he heads off to Columbia University to study English and literature, and ends up getting to know Lucien Carr, who introduces him to a group of passionate writers which includes Kerouac, Burroughs and the lesser known David Kammerer. Their relationships, however, become fractured in 1944 when Carr murders Kammerer, and the boys are left wondering how they can possibly resolve this situation in a way where everyone comes out alright.
Recently, we got to meet up with the cast of Kill Your Darlings at the film’s press conference, which was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles,...
The film focuses mainly on Ginsberg as he heads off to Columbia University to study English and literature, and ends up getting to know Lucien Carr, who introduces him to a group of passionate writers which includes Kerouac, Burroughs and the lesser known David Kammerer. Their relationships, however, become fractured in 1944 when Carr murders Kammerer, and the boys are left wondering how they can possibly resolve this situation in a way where everyone comes out alright.
Recently, we got to meet up with the cast of Kill Your Darlings at the film’s press conference, which was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles,...
- 10/16/2013
- by Ben Kenber
- We Got This Covered
Review: Kill Your Darlings Presents A Woefully Clumsy And Shallow Hagiography Of The Beat Generation
Seldom, if ever, has a film taken such potent source material as does John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings and proven itself so completely and utterly clueless as to what to do with it. Krokidas here tackles the rise of the Beat generation, specifically Allen Ginsberg's entry to college, his early relationships with Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs and - much more to the point - the entire group's involvement with young Lucien Carr - to whom Ginsberg would eventually dedicate his signature work Howl - and Carr's killing of his older gay lover David Kammerer. A true story this lurid populated with such larger than life - and yet completely true life - characters would seem to be a sure hit, such fascinating material...
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- 10/15/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Kill Your Darlings makes me want to be a better writer. Sure, John Krokidas’ historical retelling of the “Beat Generation” visionaries who attempted to turn society upside down is a fantastic watch that brings to life real literary geniuses like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, but I’ll admit the whole time I couldn’t help but be a tad jealous. These mad scientists of the written word could conjure up beautiful workings at the drop of a dime, but they also played by their own rules. These guys were the French Revolutionaries of literature, springing a movement to banish the constraints of rhyme and meter, and hot damn that looked fun. Their intellect intoxicating and their methods unorthodox, these hipster wordsmiths made me dream of being on their other-worldly level, pissing off the dinosaurs one word at a time. These men are idols, rewriting the book and becoming incredibly successful through passion and individuality,...
- 10/14/2013
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Kill Your Darlings is a sexy, stylish and entertaining look at the formative years of the Beat Generation and the poets that were at the forefront of the movement (Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac). Though it focuses mostly on Ginsberg and Carr and their time at Columbia University, the film places its heaviest focus on one event that would tie all the boys together for the rest of their lives: the murder of David Kammerer.
Led by a pair of fearless performances from its leads, Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, the film is an incredibly impressive debut from first time filmmaker John Krokidas and is already starting to pick up some serious buzz as we head into awards season.
During the Toronto International Film Festival, I had the chance to sit down with Krokidas and two of his stars, Michael C. Hall and Ben Foster, to discuss the movie.
Led by a pair of fearless performances from its leads, Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, the film is an incredibly impressive debut from first time filmmaker John Krokidas and is already starting to pick up some serious buzz as we head into awards season.
During the Toronto International Film Festival, I had the chance to sit down with Krokidas and two of his stars, Michael C. Hall and Ben Foster, to discuss the movie.
- 10/14/2013
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
For dutiful son Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Columbia University is a Mecca, a portal to art, intellect, culture, and freedom. Joining the “Libertine Circle” Lucien Carr (Dane Dehaan), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), and William Burroughs (Ben Foster) with David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) on the outside looking in do their best to subvert authority with reckless adventures, enraging college deans and parents alike.
A true story of friendship, love, and murder, Kill Your Darlings recounts the pivotal year that changed Allen Ginsberg’s life forever and provided the spark for him to start his creative revolution.
We had a chance to speak to Daniel Radcliffe, Dane Dehaan and Michael C. Hall about the upcoming film, which you can check out below.
Kill Your Darlings is in theaters October 16th.
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A true story of friendship, love, and murder, Kill Your Darlings recounts the pivotal year that changed Allen Ginsberg’s life forever and provided the spark for him to start his creative revolution.
We had a chance to speak to Daniel Radcliffe, Dane Dehaan and Michael C. Hall about the upcoming film, which you can check out below.
Kill Your Darlings is in theaters October 16th.
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- 10/14/2013
- by Fernando Esquivel
- LRMonline.com
John Krokidas debut feature, Kill Your Darlings, exudes passion, for love, for heartbreak, for writing, for cinema. It is not a surprise both him and his writing partner were so excited to talk about their project, and explain how important their devotion to the characters, and their stories were for them while developing it. There is no much explanation that could surpass the great answers the duo had for us in our recent interview, they are wordy, intelligent, and overall full of absolute joy to have made their passion project into a reality.
Carlos Aguilar: Given that the characters were real people, did you have any reservations on casting recognizable faces like Michael C. Hall or Daniel Radcliffe?
John Krokidas: Any reservations?! Are you kidding me? [Laughs] this is my dream cast come true I feel like a won the lottery and then spent a dollar on it and won another lottery. In regards to Michael C. Hall, Austin had envisioned Michael in that role from day one.
Austin Bunn: That’s right. I had seen him in Six Feet Under, and he was amazing. Knowing the history that David Kammerer had red hear, he was the brightest person in the room, he was in a way kind of the older brother to a lot of these young artists, so I had seen him in Six Feet Under, so I suggested him to John.
Krokidas: One thing we had to reconcile and come to terms with at certain point in the writing process, is that we weren’t trying to portrait literary legends. We didn’t want this to be a traditional biopic, we wanted, in the spirit of these guys, to knock the icons of the pedestal and really just examine who they were at the age in which this movie took place in 1944. At that point Allen Ginsberg was not Allen Ginsberg with beats round his neck, and a huge beard. He was an insecure but extremely bright 17 year-old in Paterson, New Jersey, he had an emotional ill mom, a dad who was a poet, and he had his own secret aspirations to be a poet was ashamed to tell his father because he thought his father would disapprove.
That’s a character that we can write, that’s a character that we can cast, and we felt if we did too many “wink winks” “knot knots“ to the future then we wouldn’t have done a good job. The joke is that, the worst version of the script would be if at the end of the movie Jack Kerouac turning to everybody and going “Ok guys I’ll be going “On the Road” and seeing you later” . We worked really hard not to look to the future but to really focus our research up to the point of the end of this movie in 1945.
Aguilar: Since you mention you weren’t particularly interested in the future of what these people would become, did you ever go back and read any of the material they wrote years after the period in which this movie takes place?
Bunn: I’m really proud of the search we did and we put in, it’s what is accurate in the film. You are hearing the genuine prose of Allen Ginsberg at the end of the film, that is the poem he wrote the day after David Kammere died, and he went to the a bar, and ‘You Always Hurt the One You Love” was playing on the jukebox. There is lots of ways in which we planted seedlings, big concepts that will pay off years down the line, but at this moment you are seeing the origin point. Something like “First thought, best though” which became a credo for Ginsberg and for Kerouac as they went on to their illustrious careers, here you hear Lucien articulate it for the first time. William Burroughs ended up writing cut up novels like Naked Lunch and Junkie, and you see in this film the moment in which the idea I occurring to him, to use the ruins of the classic to create something new. So there is a lot of research in the film, it never became a huge burned, in a way they were like breadcrumbs for us thought the story.
Krokidas: An of course Carlos, we read all the biographies from front to back, and there is so much material out here. Then we certainly became insecure about not being authentic to the characters and who they were at the time period of the movie, and that point it was like phase two of our search, in which we limited ourselves from their birth up to end of the film. Then I had the actors focus their personal research at that time period.
Aguilar: There is a sense of magical realism in the film, was this something that developed in the screenplay or was it a directorial choice?
Bunn: The moment I think you are referring to is the Jazz club scene, and for screenwriters out here in the universe reading this, we had so many drafts of that. It was always magical, I think we were trying to find a way to bring to life the spirit of a revolution beginning, the sense of the frame taking off the world, and what an awesome cinematic opportunity to figure out how to take literature and make it purely visual. As you can imagine there is a lot of different ways you can do that.
Krokidas: I think what was important for us, even from the writing process and then through the directorial process working with my department heads and the cast, was that we wanted this to be a movie about firsts: leaving home for the first time, going to New York for the first time, being at your first school party and feeling awkward, trying drugs for the first time, falling in love and having sex for the first time. We really wanted to movie to feel like it was from the perspective of a 17 year-old, and as you probably can remember from being 17, everything feels so big and important when you are 17, and those emotions are right at the surface and we wanted that expressiveness to be reflected in the writing but also in the cinematography and in the way I directed the camera.
Aguilar: Going back to the actors, Daniel Radcliffe gives a completely fearless performance, which will completely shatter his image as a child star in Harry Potter, how did you as a director help him shape this performance?
Krokidas: Daniel is such a hard worker. Even while he was doing the Broadway play, a musical, he and I would be once a week for two months before ewe went into production. And he said to be, which I thought it was really poignant, that he wanted to treat this movie as if it were his first film as well. When we started talking about his acting technique and how he likes to prepare he said “You know what, I don’t want to approach this movie like I’ve approached my other films”, and I’ve studied acting in college, I was a horrible actor myself but because of all the training that I’ve had, I kind of devised a method with him that worked for him to really get him out of his head, to free up his emotions, and approach breaking down a script and building a character in away that he hadn’t worked before. In return the really cool thing is that our relationship grew strong that it allowed me to be insecure and vulnerable and say to him “Oh my God I’m about to shoot my first movie in four weeks, what the heck have I gotten myself into”. He taught me several lessons about directing and how to control a set, the kind of stuff that you would never get in film school.
This movie was a lot of firsts for everyone involved. Look at David Kross who wanted to approach a straight dramatic role for the firs time. That was just really exciting and thrilling and I hope that energy made it on to the screen.
Aguilar: Did you want the film to focus on the love triangle between the characters or about Ginsberg’s development as a poet?
Bunn: I don’t think those two things are so distinct actually. John taught me that a script really has to be, at core, about the theme being developed and explore. You can’t just make a film about beautiful visuals or interesting scenes; it has to have a thematic idea. So, what we came upon was this notion that there is an emotional violence that comes with the birth of the self, we see a lot of movies the liberationist feeling about how amazing it is to become yourself, but this is a film about the darker edges of that. For us the sexuality and the love story was the wedge that opened Allen.
Krokidas: When we look at this relationship between Allen and Lucien, and then thought about some the relationships in our life, the more I talk about it the ore universal I find it is. We feel that there is that person that you meet at college or once you leave home, or whatever you do with your life, and you meet somebody that is more charismatic and confident , perhaps even better looking and charming than you. But that person sees something gin you, and see possibilities that you dint even excited in yourself, and they take you under their wing and they help you start to grow. The irony with these relationships is that they want you to grow but only so high and never as high as themselves.
In writing class they often tell you that you need to metaphorically kill your parents in order to really liberate yourself and find your own voice, the biggest irony is that these kind of first-love-transformational-friendship-relationships is that ultimately in order for you to really grow and claim your own voice you have to somehow surpass that person, and cut them out of your life. The love story and the birth of an artist story are incredibly intertwined in out opinion, and that was the intention. It is not a story of a first mutual love, is the story about falling in love with that beautiful tortured poet, musician, that we all fell in love with in college, and when you try so hard to be the person that you think that they want to fall in love with. It is not until the end of that relationship, the break-up, the ashes that we really get the strength to finally realize is about being ourselves. That’s what we wanted to capture.
Aguilar: The title, out of all the things that you could have titled the film, why did you choose Kill Your Darlings? Was it something literally or as you were implying before, metaphorical?
Bunn: I went to graduate school a the writers workshop at the university of Iowa, and that phrase is one of those core principles you heard a lot in writers’ workshops. You have to take your before little moment in whatever you’ve written is probably the weakest and you have to cut it. As we were thinking about different titles, let me tell you there were some other ones that weren’t nearly as good, we landed on this concept because it has so many resonances that were so powerful for the story. On one level it’s a writer’s story, is about deciding what belongs in a story and what doesn’t, on the other hand is about choosing your favorite most beloved thing and deciding that it needs to go away, or it needs to be killed, and when you look at this murder story is hard not see the connections there.
Aguilar: Does this film come full circle for you as a first film John? Is there anything you would have done differently?
Krokidas: I’ve been living with this one for ten years, there is no way I would have picked a different story. I’m so in the middle of it now that is hard for me to look back and see the lesson I’ve learned from it. All I can say is that it feels like a really honest outpouring of my relationship with Austin, working with the cast and the crew to tell this story.
Carlos Aguilar: Given that the characters were real people, did you have any reservations on casting recognizable faces like Michael C. Hall or Daniel Radcliffe?
John Krokidas: Any reservations?! Are you kidding me? [Laughs] this is my dream cast come true I feel like a won the lottery and then spent a dollar on it and won another lottery. In regards to Michael C. Hall, Austin had envisioned Michael in that role from day one.
Austin Bunn: That’s right. I had seen him in Six Feet Under, and he was amazing. Knowing the history that David Kammerer had red hear, he was the brightest person in the room, he was in a way kind of the older brother to a lot of these young artists, so I had seen him in Six Feet Under, so I suggested him to John.
Krokidas: One thing we had to reconcile and come to terms with at certain point in the writing process, is that we weren’t trying to portrait literary legends. We didn’t want this to be a traditional biopic, we wanted, in the spirit of these guys, to knock the icons of the pedestal and really just examine who they were at the age in which this movie took place in 1944. At that point Allen Ginsberg was not Allen Ginsberg with beats round his neck, and a huge beard. He was an insecure but extremely bright 17 year-old in Paterson, New Jersey, he had an emotional ill mom, a dad who was a poet, and he had his own secret aspirations to be a poet was ashamed to tell his father because he thought his father would disapprove.
That’s a character that we can write, that’s a character that we can cast, and we felt if we did too many “wink winks” “knot knots“ to the future then we wouldn’t have done a good job. The joke is that, the worst version of the script would be if at the end of the movie Jack Kerouac turning to everybody and going “Ok guys I’ll be going “On the Road” and seeing you later” . We worked really hard not to look to the future but to really focus our research up to the point of the end of this movie in 1945.
Aguilar: Since you mention you weren’t particularly interested in the future of what these people would become, did you ever go back and read any of the material they wrote years after the period in which this movie takes place?
Bunn: I’m really proud of the search we did and we put in, it’s what is accurate in the film. You are hearing the genuine prose of Allen Ginsberg at the end of the film, that is the poem he wrote the day after David Kammere died, and he went to the a bar, and ‘You Always Hurt the One You Love” was playing on the jukebox. There is lots of ways in which we planted seedlings, big concepts that will pay off years down the line, but at this moment you are seeing the origin point. Something like “First thought, best though” which became a credo for Ginsberg and for Kerouac as they went on to their illustrious careers, here you hear Lucien articulate it for the first time. William Burroughs ended up writing cut up novels like Naked Lunch and Junkie, and you see in this film the moment in which the idea I occurring to him, to use the ruins of the classic to create something new. So there is a lot of research in the film, it never became a huge burned, in a way they were like breadcrumbs for us thought the story.
Krokidas: An of course Carlos, we read all the biographies from front to back, and there is so much material out here. Then we certainly became insecure about not being authentic to the characters and who they were at the time period of the movie, and that point it was like phase two of our search, in which we limited ourselves from their birth up to end of the film. Then I had the actors focus their personal research at that time period.
Aguilar: There is a sense of magical realism in the film, was this something that developed in the screenplay or was it a directorial choice?
Bunn: The moment I think you are referring to is the Jazz club scene, and for screenwriters out here in the universe reading this, we had so many drafts of that. It was always magical, I think we were trying to find a way to bring to life the spirit of a revolution beginning, the sense of the frame taking off the world, and what an awesome cinematic opportunity to figure out how to take literature and make it purely visual. As you can imagine there is a lot of different ways you can do that.
Krokidas: I think what was important for us, even from the writing process and then through the directorial process working with my department heads and the cast, was that we wanted this to be a movie about firsts: leaving home for the first time, going to New York for the first time, being at your first school party and feeling awkward, trying drugs for the first time, falling in love and having sex for the first time. We really wanted to movie to feel like it was from the perspective of a 17 year-old, and as you probably can remember from being 17, everything feels so big and important when you are 17, and those emotions are right at the surface and we wanted that expressiveness to be reflected in the writing but also in the cinematography and in the way I directed the camera.
Aguilar: Going back to the actors, Daniel Radcliffe gives a completely fearless performance, which will completely shatter his image as a child star in Harry Potter, how did you as a director help him shape this performance?
Krokidas: Daniel is such a hard worker. Even while he was doing the Broadway play, a musical, he and I would be once a week for two months before ewe went into production. And he said to be, which I thought it was really poignant, that he wanted to treat this movie as if it were his first film as well. When we started talking about his acting technique and how he likes to prepare he said “You know what, I don’t want to approach this movie like I’ve approached my other films”, and I’ve studied acting in college, I was a horrible actor myself but because of all the training that I’ve had, I kind of devised a method with him that worked for him to really get him out of his head, to free up his emotions, and approach breaking down a script and building a character in away that he hadn’t worked before. In return the really cool thing is that our relationship grew strong that it allowed me to be insecure and vulnerable and say to him “Oh my God I’m about to shoot my first movie in four weeks, what the heck have I gotten myself into”. He taught me several lessons about directing and how to control a set, the kind of stuff that you would never get in film school.
This movie was a lot of firsts for everyone involved. Look at David Kross who wanted to approach a straight dramatic role for the firs time. That was just really exciting and thrilling and I hope that energy made it on to the screen.
Aguilar: Did you want the film to focus on the love triangle between the characters or about Ginsberg’s development as a poet?
Bunn: I don’t think those two things are so distinct actually. John taught me that a script really has to be, at core, about the theme being developed and explore. You can’t just make a film about beautiful visuals or interesting scenes; it has to have a thematic idea. So, what we came upon was this notion that there is an emotional violence that comes with the birth of the self, we see a lot of movies the liberationist feeling about how amazing it is to become yourself, but this is a film about the darker edges of that. For us the sexuality and the love story was the wedge that opened Allen.
Krokidas: When we look at this relationship between Allen and Lucien, and then thought about some the relationships in our life, the more I talk about it the ore universal I find it is. We feel that there is that person that you meet at college or once you leave home, or whatever you do with your life, and you meet somebody that is more charismatic and confident , perhaps even better looking and charming than you. But that person sees something gin you, and see possibilities that you dint even excited in yourself, and they take you under their wing and they help you start to grow. The irony with these relationships is that they want you to grow but only so high and never as high as themselves.
In writing class they often tell you that you need to metaphorically kill your parents in order to really liberate yourself and find your own voice, the biggest irony is that these kind of first-love-transformational-friendship-relationships is that ultimately in order for you to really grow and claim your own voice you have to somehow surpass that person, and cut them out of your life. The love story and the birth of an artist story are incredibly intertwined in out opinion, and that was the intention. It is not a story of a first mutual love, is the story about falling in love with that beautiful tortured poet, musician, that we all fell in love with in college, and when you try so hard to be the person that you think that they want to fall in love with. It is not until the end of that relationship, the break-up, the ashes that we really get the strength to finally realize is about being ourselves. That’s what we wanted to capture.
Aguilar: The title, out of all the things that you could have titled the film, why did you choose Kill Your Darlings? Was it something literally or as you were implying before, metaphorical?
Bunn: I went to graduate school a the writers workshop at the university of Iowa, and that phrase is one of those core principles you heard a lot in writers’ workshops. You have to take your before little moment in whatever you’ve written is probably the weakest and you have to cut it. As we were thinking about different titles, let me tell you there were some other ones that weren’t nearly as good, we landed on this concept because it has so many resonances that were so powerful for the story. On one level it’s a writer’s story, is about deciding what belongs in a story and what doesn’t, on the other hand is about choosing your favorite most beloved thing and deciding that it needs to go away, or it needs to be killed, and when you look at this murder story is hard not see the connections there.
Aguilar: Does this film come full circle for you as a first film John? Is there anything you would have done differently?
Krokidas: I’ve been living with this one for ten years, there is no way I would have picked a different story. I’m so in the middle of it now that is hard for me to look back and see the lesson I’ve learned from it. All I can say is that it feels like a really honest outpouring of my relationship with Austin, working with the cast and the crew to tell this story.
- 10/11/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
While you might not know the name John Krokidas off the top of your head just yet, you’d better start memorizing it. I’ve been impressed by many films this year, and there are still plenty of promising releases still to come, but Krokidas’ debut feature Kill Your Darlings absolutely blew me away, becoming my favorite film of the year – so far. A sexy, daring, smart, and lively period piece, Kill Your Darlings is an engrossing ride from start to finish, chronicling the death of David Kammerer.
Kammerer’s death was reported and known though, and Krokidas wanted to explore the relationships between names like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, who all became connected through Kammerer and a man named Lucien Carr. Their ideas were dangerous, and their lust for literary anarchy should be viewed as a source of inspiration – which is exactly what Krokidas wanted to depict.
Kammerer’s death was reported and known though, and Krokidas wanted to explore the relationships between names like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, who all became connected through Kammerer and a man named Lucien Carr. Their ideas were dangerous, and their lust for literary anarchy should be viewed as a source of inspiration – which is exactly what Krokidas wanted to depict.
- 10/11/2013
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Icons turned mortals is a premise often attempted when aiming to deliver a humanized version of figures otherwise revered without any context of what experiences or lack of, shaped them into the idol they'd become. For a film that compiles a period of time in the lives of the most iconic American writers of the mid-20th century, John Krokidas' directorial debut is a film painted with a fierce brush of raw passion and youthful madness. Nothing short of what's required to express the complexities of life through the abstraction that are words.
Insecure aspiring poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) just got into Columbia University, a decision that would allow him to distant himself from his mentally unstable mother and nourish his talent. What the couldn't anticipate was that the real schooling would happen to the sight of pouring alcohol, vandalism, and rapturous first love. Ginsberg is receptive to all these newly found sensations of which the main provider is Lucien Carr (Dane DeHann) a seductive young man his age who becomes at once his pal, his inspiration, his detractor, and the poisonous object of his unfocused desired. Lucien introduces his new friend to rich-writer William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and his on-and-off lover David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall), and expresses his interest in revolutionizing the art of writing by going against the structure, something that draws Allen in with an entrancing power.
A perpetual sense of discovery irradiates through every frame of the film, making it more about the boys’ self-discovery journeys than any specific moment that would lead them to write a given title in their future bibliography. Yet, for all the lack of historical guidance some viewers might be looking for, it packs an evocative mood that feels relevant to the troubling angst of Ginsberg and company. At the center of the plot is not whether or not Allen has what it takes to be a writer, but whether his quiet love for Lucien will allow him to become that writer. Then there is David, the older figure that lures around and enables Lucien’s debauchery, and who has also fallen for his captivating persona. However, when the latter directs his attention towards tough womanizer Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), Allen’s and David’s romantic illusion vanishes and morphs into a plot of murderous, ravishing passion and a dilemma to do what’s right.
Aided by Krokidas artful delivery of the homoerotic tension between the protagonists, Radcliffe shatters his childish image of the boy wizard once and for all. There is an intricate vulnerability in his performance both as a young man discovering his own sexuality and as an aspiring writer. Easily manipulated at first by Lucien, he learns from heartbreak the lessons no classroom could have taught him, and for that becomes a better decision-maker when confronted with deceiving behavior. DeHaan is on point as the aimless rebel who fancies himself an artist without ever having produce any work, a person who lives vicariously through those who he touches and ravages in his path, Michael C. Hall’s character included, who also delivers a flawed homosexual man rendered to fulfill Lucien’s wishes in an effort to protect him.
Passion is the name of the game in Kill Your Darlings, both Krokidas and his writing partner, Austin Bunn, have a genuine devotion for these characters. Still, the filmmaker doesn’t idolize his subjects but rather exposes them as flesh and bone, with all the irrational complexities of their humanity, and that itself is provocative and refreshing. Broken and lost, in love and enraged, these men that would become legends, are, for all intents and purposes, like everyone else. Sometimes that bane humanity is as compelling as the metaphorical images of a lusciously written poem.
Insecure aspiring poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) just got into Columbia University, a decision that would allow him to distant himself from his mentally unstable mother and nourish his talent. What the couldn't anticipate was that the real schooling would happen to the sight of pouring alcohol, vandalism, and rapturous first love. Ginsberg is receptive to all these newly found sensations of which the main provider is Lucien Carr (Dane DeHann) a seductive young man his age who becomes at once his pal, his inspiration, his detractor, and the poisonous object of his unfocused desired. Lucien introduces his new friend to rich-writer William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and his on-and-off lover David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall), and expresses his interest in revolutionizing the art of writing by going against the structure, something that draws Allen in with an entrancing power.
A perpetual sense of discovery irradiates through every frame of the film, making it more about the boys’ self-discovery journeys than any specific moment that would lead them to write a given title in their future bibliography. Yet, for all the lack of historical guidance some viewers might be looking for, it packs an evocative mood that feels relevant to the troubling angst of Ginsberg and company. At the center of the plot is not whether or not Allen has what it takes to be a writer, but whether his quiet love for Lucien will allow him to become that writer. Then there is David, the older figure that lures around and enables Lucien’s debauchery, and who has also fallen for his captivating persona. However, when the latter directs his attention towards tough womanizer Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), Allen’s and David’s romantic illusion vanishes and morphs into a plot of murderous, ravishing passion and a dilemma to do what’s right.
Aided by Krokidas artful delivery of the homoerotic tension between the protagonists, Radcliffe shatters his childish image of the boy wizard once and for all. There is an intricate vulnerability in his performance both as a young man discovering his own sexuality and as an aspiring writer. Easily manipulated at first by Lucien, he learns from heartbreak the lessons no classroom could have taught him, and for that becomes a better decision-maker when confronted with deceiving behavior. DeHaan is on point as the aimless rebel who fancies himself an artist without ever having produce any work, a person who lives vicariously through those who he touches and ravages in his path, Michael C. Hall’s character included, who also delivers a flawed homosexual man rendered to fulfill Lucien’s wishes in an effort to protect him.
Passion is the name of the game in Kill Your Darlings, both Krokidas and his writing partner, Austin Bunn, have a genuine devotion for these characters. Still, the filmmaker doesn’t idolize his subjects but rather exposes them as flesh and bone, with all the irrational complexities of their humanity, and that itself is provocative and refreshing. Broken and lost, in love and enraged, these men that would become legends, are, for all intents and purposes, like everyone else. Sometimes that bane humanity is as compelling as the metaphorical images of a lusciously written poem.
- 10/10/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
There is no denying the pretentiousness that exists within John Krokidas’ Kill Your Darlings, as a film that bears unfavourable similarities to the likes of Liberal Arts: a picture that shamelessly name-drops authors and their work. Conversely, this particular piece actually triumphs as it’s not showing off its intelligent library of citations, and instead we’re going straight to the point of reference, as we take a trip back to the beat generation and focus in on a group of poets and literary giants in the peak of their anarchic and disorderly adolescent years. The cringe-worthy sequences are expected, and ultimately, embraced.
Looking predominantly from the perspective of the ambitious writer Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), we watch on as he begins life at Columbia University – where he meets his rebellious and beguiling classmate Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), forging a blossoming friendship that will change both of their lives forever.
Looking predominantly from the perspective of the ambitious writer Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), we watch on as he begins life at Columbia University – where he meets his rebellious and beguiling classmate Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), forging a blossoming friendship that will change both of their lives forever.
- 10/9/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Daniel Radcliffe and "True Blood's" Dane DeHaan were mutually impressed with each other's kissing skills after shooting a gay sex scene for "Kill Your Darlings."
"It's like the first time that two people who have a lot of feelings for each other are finally getting to express that in any kind of way," DeHaan tells E! News' Marc Malkin. "I'm glad it turned out like it is. I think it's really beautiful."
Malkin talked to DeHaan and Radcliffe on the red carpet at the film's Los Angeles premiere, and the actors were mutually complimentary of each other's smooches. "Dan's a great kisser," says DeHaan. Radcliffe is quick to respond, "So is he -- there's no shame in saying that."
When "Kill Your Darlings" debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Radcliffe told reporters he doesn't understand all of the hubbub over the homosexual love scene between himself and DeHaan. "We...
"It's like the first time that two people who have a lot of feelings for each other are finally getting to express that in any kind of way," DeHaan tells E! News' Marc Malkin. "I'm glad it turned out like it is. I think it's really beautiful."
Malkin talked to DeHaan and Radcliffe on the red carpet at the film's Los Angeles premiere, and the actors were mutually complimentary of each other's smooches. "Dan's a great kisser," says DeHaan. Radcliffe is quick to respond, "So is he -- there's no shame in saying that."
When "Kill Your Darlings" debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Radcliffe told reporters he doesn't understand all of the hubbub over the homosexual love scene between himself and DeHaan. "We...
- 10/4/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Who wants to go back in time to 1940s New York City with Daniel Radcliffe? The former Harry Potter star plays late Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, a real-life drama about the early days of Ginsberg's friendships with Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster). The story revolves around the start of the Beat Generation and the 1944 murder of an English professor named David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) by Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), who befriended Ginsberg at Columbia University. Carr claimed he killed Kammerer in self-defense after he attacked him when he rejected his sexual advances. And only we have this exclusive clip from the indie film that shows Carr bringing...
- 10/3/2013
- E! Online
Even in the midst of Harry Potter hoopla, Daniel Radcliffe boldly tackled a starring role in the stage production of Equus that challenged the limitations of the Potter franchise and the perceptions of his loyal fanbase. Now that he’s officially graduated from Hogwarts, the 23-year-old continues to follow his own beat. In Kill Your Darlings, he plays a young Allen Ginsberg in 1940s New York City, just as the writer was experiencing his literary — and sexual — awakening as a freshman at Columbia. The man somewhat responsible for both is Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), a mesmerizing but troubled free-thinker who...
- 10/1/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Daniel Radcliffe: Gay sex scene in ‘Kill Your Darlings’ will ‘startle’ fans (photo: Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan in ‘Kill Your Darlings’) Daniel Radcliffe, 24, has survived Harry Potter. Last year, he starred in the horror thriller The Woman in Black, a major sleeper hit in the United Kingdom and a moderate one in several other countries, including the United States and Mexico. Radcliffe’s next release is the John Krokidas-directed drama Kill Your Darlings, in which the (former) bespectacled Harry Potter plays bespectacled gay poet Allen Ginsberg — whose sexually daring poem "Howl" resulted in charges of obscenity in 1957. And of course, when it came to gay sex, Ginsberg did more than just write poems. And that’s where Daniel Radcliffe will do some unHarry Potterish on-screen business. ‘Kill Your Darlings’ gay sex scene “I felt like I was breaking new ground," Daniel Radcliffe is quoted as saying in Total Film.
- 9/28/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Kill Your Darlings - a nine-year passion project in the making from first-time director John Krokidas - stars an almost unidentifiable Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, the young and introverted Columbia University freshman who quickly becomes magnetized by the charming and rebellious Lucien Carr (played by Dane DeHaan), whose influence on Ginsberg and notorious murder of stalker David Kammerer (played by Michael C. Hall), helped define one of the twentieth century’s most pivotal artistic movements. The movie, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, returned to the spotlight last week for the red carpet treatment as part of the 2013 Tiff Festival.
We caught up with stars Radcliffe (pulling triple duty at this year's Fest), DeHaan, Hall, Jack Huston and director Krokidas in Toronto to talk about the off-beat biopic, their famous characters and just how Jesse Eisenberg (yes, really) was almost the new on-screen Ginsberg. Watch our two part interview now!
We caught up with stars Radcliffe (pulling triple duty at this year's Fest), DeHaan, Hall, Jack Huston and director Krokidas in Toronto to talk about the off-beat biopic, their famous characters and just how Jesse Eisenberg (yes, really) was almost the new on-screen Ginsberg. Watch our two part interview now!
- 9/17/2013
- by Rob Lazar
- Cineplex
For eight seasons Michael C. Hall has killed well over 100 people on Showtime's "Dexter." In a nice change of pace John Krokidas' acclaimed debut "Kill Your Darlings" has Hall playing the victim at the other end of the blade. The drama, which screened this week in Toronto and opens October 17, tells the story of how the Beat Generation movement came to be by centering on Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) and his tenuous relationship to fellow Columbia student Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), who would go on to murder gay elder sophisticate David Kammerer (Hall). Ben Foster co-stars in the film as William S. Burroughs, while Jack Huston embodies Jack Kerouac. Indiewire sat down with Hall in Toronto the day of its Canadian premiere to discuss his role in the drama, saying goodbye to "Dexter," and playing his first gay character since his run on HBO's "Six Feet Under." Both David Kammerer...
- 9/13/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
A new set of images from Kill Your Darlings has been released.
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the drama, which focuses on the dynamic between Ginsberg, fellow writers Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William S Burroughs (Ben Foster), and the man who brought them together, Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan).
Written by director John Krokidas and Austin Bunn, the story sees the group tested by the murder of Burroughs's close friend David Kammerer (Dexter's Michael C Hall), and Carr's increasingly erratic behaviour.
Elizabeth Olsen co-stars as Edie Parker, while Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Ginsberg's mother.
Radcliffe has spoken on numerous occasions about filming gay sex scenes with DeHaan, describing it as "a new experience".
> 'Kill Your Darlings': Dane DeHaan causes chaos in first clip - watch
> Daniel Radcliffe 'insisted on Kill Your Darlings audition'
Kill Your Darlings will play at this year's BFI London Film Festival,...
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the drama, which focuses on the dynamic between Ginsberg, fellow writers Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William S Burroughs (Ben Foster), and the man who brought them together, Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan).
Written by director John Krokidas and Austin Bunn, the story sees the group tested by the murder of Burroughs's close friend David Kammerer (Dexter's Michael C Hall), and Carr's increasingly erratic behaviour.
Elizabeth Olsen co-stars as Edie Parker, while Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Ginsberg's mother.
Radcliffe has spoken on numerous occasions about filming gay sex scenes with DeHaan, describing it as "a new experience".
> 'Kill Your Darlings': Dane DeHaan causes chaos in first clip - watch
> Daniel Radcliffe 'insisted on Kill Your Darlings audition'
Kill Your Darlings will play at this year's BFI London Film Festival,...
- 9/12/2013
- Digital Spy
Writer and first time director John Krokidas manages to capture the late forties New York period details in Kill Your Darlings which opens in select theaters on October 16th. The film focuses on a sensational 1944 murder that draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Michael C. Hall as David Kammerer with Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg
All photos courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr with Radcliffe
Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac and Elizabeth Olsen as Edie Parker
Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Naomi Ginsberg
David Cross as Louis Ginsberg
Kill Your Darlings opens October 16th
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Michael C. Hall as David Kammerer with Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg
All photos courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr with Radcliffe
Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac and Elizabeth Olsen as Edie Parker
Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Naomi Ginsberg
David Cross as Louis Ginsberg
Kill Your Darlings opens October 16th
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- 9/11/2013
- by The Backlot
- The Backlot
Toronto -- On Tuesday evening I caught the Toronto International Film Festival's first screening of Kill Your Darlings, a film co-written and directed by John Krokidas that focuses on the most iconic writers of the Beat Generation -- Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Boardwalk Empire's Jack Huston), William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) -- in the early 1940s, before they became famous, when Lucien Carr (fast-rising Dane DeHaan), a young associate of theirs, murdered David Kammerer (Dexter's Michael C. Hall), a former lover of his. The film, which premiered at Sundance and also played at Venice, received a warm reception here
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- 9/11/2013
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Seldom, if ever, has a film taken such potent source material as does John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings and proven itself so completely and utterly clueless as to what to do with it. Krokidas here tackles the rise of the Beat generation, specifically Allen Ginsberg's entry to college, his early relationships with Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs and - much more to the point - the entire group's involvement with young Lucien Carr - to whom Ginsberg would eventually dedicate his signature work Howl - and Carr's killing of his older gay lover David Kammerer. A true story this lurid populated with such larger than life - and yet completely true life - characters would seem to be a sure hit, such fascinating material...
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- 9/11/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Week two of the festival concluded with strong British showings from Philomena, Under the Skin and Locke
The British are back! That was one inescapable conclusion of the Venice film festival, which foregrounded English-speaking cinema in a big way. The Cannes line-up, earlier in the year, had a good selection of what we are forced to call "world cinema", with Blue Is the Warmest Colour, The Past, Heli and La Grande Bellezza taking on the anglophone behemoths (and Nicolas Winding Refn, in his own special category). But at Venice, it was a different story: whether it was a quirk of the screening schedules, or the programmers' own priority, English-speaking cinema was virtually inescapable.
After the hi-tech thrills of the opening film, Gravity, and the pulp-trash stylings of The Canyons, the collective palate was cleansed by Philomena, the affecting tale of an elderly Irish woman and the initially sceptical journalist who...
The British are back! That was one inescapable conclusion of the Venice film festival, which foregrounded English-speaking cinema in a big way. The Cannes line-up, earlier in the year, had a good selection of what we are forced to call "world cinema", with Blue Is the Warmest Colour, The Past, Heli and La Grande Bellezza taking on the anglophone behemoths (and Nicolas Winding Refn, in his own special category). But at Venice, it was a different story: whether it was a quirk of the screening schedules, or the programmers' own priority, English-speaking cinema was virtually inescapable.
After the hi-tech thrills of the opening film, Gravity, and the pulp-trash stylings of The Canyons, the collective palate was cleansed by Philomena, the affecting tale of an elderly Irish woman and the initially sceptical journalist who...
- 9/7/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
This week's movie trailers feature a selection of famous household faces with a little something for everyone. The long-awaited arrival of the first trailer for new Daniel Radcliffe film Kill Your Darlings draws together the legendary poets of the beat generation, whilst James Corden stars as singer Paul Potts in One Chance.
Sandra Bullock captivates her audience in thriller Gravity, and Zac Efron provides us with laughter in new comedy Neighbors. Finally, there's a first look at Jose Padilha's remake of 1987 film RoboCop, which is set to grace our screens next February.
Digital Spy brings you five of this week's hottest movie trailers.
RoboCop remake releases first trailer
Joel Kinnaman stars as Alex Murphy in the remake of the original 1987 movie. Murphy, a cop, is horrifically burnt in a car explosion and is offered a second chance to live with cybernetic enhancements. Pushing everyone including his wife and son to the limit,...
Sandra Bullock captivates her audience in thriller Gravity, and Zac Efron provides us with laughter in new comedy Neighbors. Finally, there's a first look at Jose Padilha's remake of 1987 film RoboCop, which is set to grace our screens next February.
Digital Spy brings you five of this week's hottest movie trailers.
RoboCop remake releases first trailer
Joel Kinnaman stars as Alex Murphy in the remake of the original 1987 movie. Murphy, a cop, is horrifically burnt in a car explosion and is offered a second chance to live with cybernetic enhancements. Pushing everyone including his wife and son to the limit,...
- 9/6/2013
- Digital Spy
Ben Foster as Williams Burroughs, Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg and Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr. Photo by Clay Enos, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Classics has released a brand new trailer for the upcoming film Kill Your Darlings.
Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Jennifer Jason Leigh & Elizabeth Olsen and directed by John Krokidas, the film will hit theaters on October 16, 2013.
Kill Your Darlings is the previously untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster) at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to their Beat Revolution. This is the true story of friendship and murder that led to the birth of an entire generation.
”It’s really Ginsberg’s coming of age,” notes director John Krokidas. ”He showed up at Columbia, 17 years old, the...
Sony Pictures Classics has released a brand new trailer for the upcoming film Kill Your Darlings.
Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Jennifer Jason Leigh & Elizabeth Olsen and directed by John Krokidas, the film will hit theaters on October 16, 2013.
Kill Your Darlings is the previously untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster) at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to their Beat Revolution. This is the true story of friendship and murder that led to the birth of an entire generation.
”It’s really Ginsberg’s coming of age,” notes director John Krokidas. ”He showed up at Columbia, 17 years old, the...
- 9/5/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Like many of its characters, Kill Your Darlings is a film that lacks a narrative direction. It never seems quite sure what story it wants to tell. Some will probably argue the film itself is then a metaphor for said characters, but I have a hard time subscribing to that theory just as much as I wasn't able to buy it with Sophia Coppola's The Bling Ring earlier this year. If that's the case, so be it, but it doesn't take away from the hollowness I was left with once the credits started to roll. At the outset, our central focus is a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe). We're introduced to his father (David Cross) and his psychologically ill mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and learn he was just accepted into Columbia University, where the bulk of the film takes place. He seems to know he wants to be a writer...
- 9/5/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The stars of Harry Potter are in the process of proving that they're all grown up: Emma Watson got involved in a burglary ring, Rupert Grint joined a punk band and started hanging out in seedy New York clubs, and now Daniel Radcliffe is involved in a real-life murder mystery. Luckily, it's just the characters these former child stars play who lead chaotic and tumultuous lives.
In the new flick Kill Your Darlings, Daniel Radcliffe plays poet Allen Ginsburg alongside Jack Huston's Jack Kerouac and Ben Foster's William S. Burroughs. Unlike some other flicks about the Beat Generation's most notable writers, this one doesn't seem to meander around following self-indulgent kids who vacillate between exuberance and existential angst; instead it examines the true story of the murder of David Kammerer. The details of the mystery will unfold when the movie is released in theaters October 18th.
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In the new flick Kill Your Darlings, Daniel Radcliffe plays poet Allen Ginsburg alongside Jack Huston's Jack Kerouac and Ben Foster's William S. Burroughs. Unlike some other flicks about the Beat Generation's most notable writers, this one doesn't seem to meander around following self-indulgent kids who vacillate between exuberance and existential angst; instead it examines the true story of the murder of David Kammerer. The details of the mystery will unfold when the movie is released in theaters October 18th.
Next Showing:...
- 9/5/2013
- by reelz staff
- Reelzchannel.com
Here's the first full trailer for the indie drama Kill Your Darlings, which has a great cast of actors that includes Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, and Jack Huston. This was a solidly good movie, and here's the synopsis:
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s (Radcliffe) life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr (Dehaan), an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs (Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Huston). Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree to tear down tradition and make something new, ultimately formulating the tenets of and giving birth to what became the Beat movement. On the outside, looking in, is David Kammerer (Hall), a man in his thirties desperately in love with Carr. When Kammerer is found dead,...
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s (Radcliffe) life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr (Dehaan), an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs (Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Huston). Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree to tear down tradition and make something new, ultimately formulating the tenets of and giving birth to what became the Beat movement. On the outside, looking in, is David Kammerer (Hall), a man in his thirties desperately in love with Carr. When Kammerer is found dead,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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