Direction: Robert Frank

Direction Robert Frank · Alfred Leslie

Cast Allen Ginsberg · Gregory Corso · Larry Rivers · Peter Orlovsky

Plot Milo is a railroad brakeman, his wife a painter. They have some poet friends who spend a good bit of time hanging out at their apartment. When Milo and his...

Direction Robert Frank

Cast The Rolling Stones · Mick Jagger · Keith Richards · Charlie Watts

Plot This fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour, their first return to the States since the tragedy at Altamont. Because of the free-form nature of...

Direction Robert Frank · Rudy Wurlitzer

Cast Joanne Akolitis · Joan Jonas · June Leaf · Richard Serra

Plot A spontaneous, improvised story about a group of people living on an island off Nova Scotia. Obsessed with daily aspects of their lives and the cycles of nature, the group...

Direction Robert Frank

Cast Harry Smith

Plot Renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank has made his first new film in years: A time capsule of a touching and unique encounter between two iconoclastic artists in New York.

Direction Robert Frank

Plot Frank’s most personal and emotional work is dedicated to his daughter Andrea and his friend and collaborator Danny Seymour, both deceased. Delicately balanced, intuitive moments merge Frank’s own sense of...

Direction Robert Frank

Plot Whole Earth Catalog editor Stewart Brand and his friend Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy) asked Robert Frank to document “The Hunger Show,” a week-long fast staged by the Portola Institute in...

Direction Robert Frank

Cast Julius Orlovsky · Peter Orlovsky · John Coe · Allen Ginsberg

Plot Julius Orlovsky, after spending years in a New York mental hospital, emerges catatonic and must rely on his brother Peter, who lives with poet Allen Ginsberg. When Julius wanders off...

Direction Robert Frank

Plot C'est vrai! (One Hour) is a single-take of Robert Frank and actor Kevin O'Connor walking and riding in the back of a minivan through lower Manhattan.

Direction Robert Frank

Direction Robert Frank · Rudy Wurlitzer

Cast Kevin J. O'Connor · Harris Yulin · Tom Waits · Bulle Ogier

Plot A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.

Direction Robert Frank

Cast Ruby Lynn Reyner · Robert Schlee · Sheila Pavlo · Vera Cochran

Plot A Musical was planned as a cinematic study of indigenous American music. Robert Frank decided instead to make the film about himself. An actress plays Frank. He examines his life...

Direction Robert Frank

Cast Joseph Bird · Sudie Blond · Martin Lasalle · Sue Mingus

Direction Robert Frank · Gary Hill · Rudy Wurlitzer

Cast William S. Burroughs · Dr. John · Allan Moyle · Robert Downey Sr.

Plot Filmed in Wendover, Nevada, in early 1981, Energy and How to Get It combines documentary and fictional ideas. What began as a documentary film about Robert Golka, an engineer who...