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This Song for Jack (1983)

★ 6.5/10 Documentary United States English
Director: Robert Frank
Streaming: Not available

Description

In 1982, Robert Frank was on hand at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to film the Jack Kerouac Conference, a 25th-anniversary commemoration of On the Road in which poignantly aging Beats and fellow-traveling authors, activists, and composers (Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Herbert Huncke, Anne Waldman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ken Kesey, Abbie Hoffman, David Amram) gathered on a rain-swept Chautauqua porch to recite poetry and raise a glass to their patron saint. Particularly memorable is Frank’s humorous encounter with a group of grizzled and well-lubricated onlookers. — Museum of Modern Art

Top Cast

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs Self
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg Self
John Clellon Holmes Self
Gregory Corso Self
Peter Orlovsky Self

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