![]() ![]() Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited under license from Universal Music Enterprises. Published by Edward B Marks Music Company. Performed by Anne Shelton, Stanley Black and his Orchestra. Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, David Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Elizabeth Olsen, Kyra Sedgewick, John Cullum and David Rascheīehind the scenes: Produced by John Krokidas, Michael Benaroya, Christine Vachon and Rose Ganguzza Written by John Krokidas and Austin Bunn. A long overdue account of the murder of David Kammerer an event that would bind together a group of young artists (including William S. Written by Norbert Schultze, Hans Leip, Tommie Connor. ![]() "Kill Your Darlings" vividly depicts the resulting counterculture movement that cared less about banning rhyming couplets than why the right to kill is protected when the right to love isn't.Įspecially since who you love is something even wizards and poets don't get to choose.Ĭast: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. A struggling screenwriter (Andreas Wilson), a free-spirited woman (Lolita Davidovich) and a group of suicidal people take a wild road trip. The specter of war hangs over this movie like a pall, including battles on the home front where heterosexuals could murder gays and lesbians with near impunity by committing "honor killings." Suffice it to say that when he and "the boy who lived" meet at Columbia University and start contemplating crossing wands with each other, all manner of societal prejudices are unleashed. The phrase in writing you must kill all your darlings has been attributed to writer and Nobel prize laureate William Faulkner. Burroughs respectively, and each ensemble scene glows with enough dramatic amplitude to light up a darkened black-box theater.įirst among cast members is Dane DeHaan, who delivers yet another contortionist performance after daring turns in "Chronicle" and "The Place Beyond the Pines." Playing Ginsberg's rabble-rouser classmate Lucien Carr, DeHaan treats acting like ogres or onions, painfully peeling back layers to reveal something less like a parfait than a pile of bloody ogre bits. ![]() The film stars Radcliffe as a college-age Allen Ginsberg opposite Jack Huston and Ben Foster, portraying heavyweight authors Jack Kerouac and William S. By Larry Doyle FebruWhenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece. Any Harry Potter haters still doubting Radcliffe's chops had better check themselves before they see "Kill Your Darlings," a moody coming-of-age tale that mixes murder, sexuality and postwar American lit. Kill Your Darlings How to purge your writing of exceptionally fine phrases such as She had an ass for days. However, nobody could survive He Who Must Not Be Named for eight consecutive movies without learning some acting magic all their own. Kill Your Darlings Edit Summaries A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. By now, most Muggles know that the wand chooses the wizard, but perhaps the pen also chooses the poet.Įither way, Daniel Radcliffe is terrifically lucky that casting directors chose him to play both. ![]()
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