This Song for Jack [573703] Released: 1983-10-01 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 0 mins Popularity: 0.2456 Vote Average: 6 Vote Count: 1 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 Cast [5] William S. BurroughsSelf Allen GinsbergSelf John Clellon HolmesSelf Gregory CorsoSelf Peter OrlovskySelf Trailers