James Franco showed off a bit of facial hair as he walked the red carpet at the Howl premiere during day two of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival at the Berlinale Palast on February 12, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.

The film consists of three interwoven aspects: the early life of Ginsberg (Franco) in NYC and his evolution as a writer and poet; an animated re-imagining of the poem “Howl” and the obscenity trial San Francisco poet and City Lights Bookstore co-founder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Andrew Rogers), faced after publishing the titular poem, in which Ginsberg made references to drug use and homosexuality (the latter of which in the ’50s was still considered taboo).
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