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- Release Date: 1965
- Runtime: 33 min
- Genre: Documentary, Short
- Starring: Gregory Corso, Harry Fainlight, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg ... see all
- Director: Peter Whitehead
- Plot: A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets together under... Read more
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a repetitious bore
Aug 22, 2006
Prokievitch Bazarov - imdb.com
Aug 22, 2006Prokievitch Bazarov - imdb.com
"Wholly Communion," a 32-minute report on a recital by a gang of modern poets, mostly beatniks, in Albert Hall in London in 1965 is a useless narration. It is colorful and droll for about 10 minutes. Then it is a... Full review
Historical record of important cultural event
Aug 06, 2006
adamblake77 - imdb.com
Aug 06, 2006adamblake77 - imdb.com
This film is of importance more for its historical value than for its content. What it represents is the only footage of the 1965 Poetry Olympics held at the Albert Hall which turned out to be the catalyst for bringing... Full review
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| Sep 06, 2006thephoenix.com
WHOLLY COMMUNION (1965; September 8 + 13, 7 pm), Whitehead's black-and-white record of a multi-poet reading attended by thousands at the Royal Albert Hall, is a document of Beat poetry at a time when poetry mattered.
Doomed lyric poet Harry Fainlight is interrupted but carries bravely on.
... Full Review
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