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This Song for Jack

Plot: 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
Release Date: Saturday, October 1 1983
41 years ago
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Portrait of William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs was
69 in This Song for Jack
Thu, Feb 05 1914 –
Sat, Aug 02 1997
Portrait of Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was
57 in This Song for Jack
Thu, Jun 03 1926 –
Sat, Apr 05 1997
Portrait of John Clellon HolmesJohn Clellon Holmes
John Clellon Holmes was
>> in This Song for Jack
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Portrait of Gregory CorsoGregory Corso
Gregory Corso was
53 in This Song for Jack
Wed, Mar 26 1930 –
Wed, Jan 17 2001
Portrait of Peter OrlovskyPeter Orlovsky
Peter Orlovsky was
50 in This Song for Jack
Sat, Jul 08 1933 –
Sun, May 30 2010

Crew

Portrait of Robert FrankRobert Frank
Robert Frank was
58 in This Song for Jack
as 'Director'
Sun, Nov 09 1924