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"  The Cinema Society and Johnston &amp;amp;amp; Murphy gathered movie watchers at the Paris Theatre last night for a viewing of the Sundance-celebrated &amp;quot;Kill Your Darlings&amp;quot; \u2014John Krokidas&amp;#039; directorial debut. On the eve of his 40th birthday, Krokidas greeted the crowd with an emotional speech, saying, &amp;quot;in order to get your first film made, you need people to believe in you, and not only to believe in you, but to give you money.&amp;quot; That unadulterated realness certainly found its way into &amp;quot;Kill Your Darlings,&amp;quot; a dark true-telling of murder, morality and the making of the beat generation. Allen Ginsberg (played by Daniel Radcliffe) leaves his New Jersey home, his poet father and mentally ill mother to set off for Columbia University, where he encounters a bohemian world and the boyishly beautiful Lucien Carr (portrayed by the buzzed about Dane DeHaan). He is soon introudced to a drug-curious William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and charismatic athlete-writer Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston). This isn&amp;#039;t a precious telling of grand literary figures, instead, they are men whose names we know and work we&amp;#039;ve read shown through a lens of truth\u2014and not always nicely. The main premise is the murder of David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) by Carr and the fallout as a result, but we also watch Ginsberg develop as a writer, explore his sexuality (both subtly and with an in-your-face scene) and begin a cultural movement\u2014set to a score of jazz and poppy hits. It&amp;#039;s visually arresting and highly watchable, a great first time out for a director and a movie that was ten years in the making. After an intense viewing, the crowd departed for some heart-lightening Qui Tequila cocktails at the new Tao Downtown. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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