This Song for Jack

(1983)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1983

Country: United States of America

Director: Robert Frank

Cast: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky

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. — Museum of Modern Art