Writer: Gustave Reininger
Producer: Gustave Reininger, Donna Stillo, Vincenzo Labella, Damien Leveck, Haven Reininger, Amanda Gill, Jane Albrecht, Peter Kirby
Editor: Damien Leveck, Allen Smithee
Cinematographer: Harry Dawson, Richard Rutkowski, Jesse Feldmen
Music: Steven J. Edwards
Cast: Gregory Corso, Ethan Hawke, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith

Gregory Corso, the youngest of the influential Beat Poet movement, is given his own spotlight in Gustave Reinenger's affectionate documentary. A New York native, Corso survived an abusive childhood, adolescence in prison (first for stealing a toaster, later a suit) and a lifelong drug addiction to author such seminal works of Beat poetry as "Bomb" and "Marriage." Reinenger's long friendship with Corso late in his life affords him an intimacy with his iconic subject and Corso's larger-than-life character is captured like lightning in a bottle. Sensitive narration by Ethan Hawke fills in the rest. It is easy to see why Allen Ginsberg dubbed Corso "a poet's poet."

Expected to be in attendance:  Director Gustave Reinenger

Gustave Reininger is the creator of the hit NBC TV drama series (and feature film) "Crime Story." With Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra and Sr. Helen Prejean, Reininger is finishing commitments to a feature, THE BIG QUESTION. He is preparing a dramatic version of CORSO and a political thriller about the U.S. invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

 

Gustave Reininger is the creator of the hit NBC TV drama series (and feature film) "Crime Story." With Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra and Sr. Helen Prejean, Reininger is finishing commitments to a feature, THE BIG QUESTION. He is preparing a dramatic version of CORSO and a political thriller about the U.S. invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.