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
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William S. Burroughs
Self
Known for
Drugstore Cowboy
Joy Division
Allen Ginsberg
Self
Known for
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Robert Frank
Also in
The Present
Hit Parade
William S Burroughs
John Clellon Holmes
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Gregory Corso
Self
Also in
The Godfather Part III
Pull My Daisy
Peter Orlovsky
Self
Also in
Pull My Daisy
One Hour
Robert Frank Director
United States release October 1, 1983 · Produced in United States
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United States
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English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 1, 1983
Limited theatrical
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