This Song for Jack

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Overview

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

Details

Status: Released
Release date: October 1, 1983
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Gregory Corso,John Clellon Holmes,Peter Orlovsky,Allen Ginsberg,William S. Burroughs
Director: Robert Frank
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0086432