The man wears the hell out of a herringbone coat, too – it may be the most covetably styled anti-establishment movie in memory. Daniel Radcliffe is eager, if uncomfortably cast, as the naive English student finding his sexuality and creative voice via an unrequited crush on destructive fellow student Lucien Carr – played by Dane DeHaan with an amped-up vigour and eroticism the film could use more of. It's hard to say whether Allen Ginsberg would have been sneerier about the tidy liberation sentiments of Mitty or Kill Your Darlings (Universal, 15), John Krokidas's diverting but oddly puppyish portrait of the Beat poet's Columbia University days. Fifty years old this year and pristine as ever, it's a film about belief for viewers of all persuasions.ĭaniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings. Not at all the reading one might expect from the bristly gay Marxist, this spare, serene observation of Jesus Christ's trajectory from birth to death to, well, beyond instead surprises with its devotion to the text, making its stray flourishes of subversion – notably the bluesy surge of Odetta's Motherless Child on the soundtrack – hit that much harder. Matthew to their download roster – and you could not ask for a more bracing antidote to the hoary biblical epics that TV programmers routinely trot out over this particular weekend.
Happily, iTunes recently identified an exception by adding Pier Paolo Pasolini's rapturous The Gospel According to St. The list of great Easter-related films is short, and the list of those available online considerably shorter. E very year, the aisles of Easter greeting cards in stationers' shops grow wider, as more commercial enterprises clock to the holiday's prettier-than-Christmas potential – but the film industry, by and large, has resisted.
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