This Song for Jack

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. — Museum of Modern Art

• Release date
• October 1, 1983
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• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Robert Frank

This Song for Jack — Cast

William S. Burroughs Self Allen Ginsberg Self

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John Clellon Holmes Self

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Gregory Corso Self Peter Orlovsky Self