Movies: Robert Frank
- 1990
C'est vrai (1990)
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A one-hour trip down Manhattan's Lower east Side....
- 1971
Conversations in Vermont (1971)
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Produced in 1969, this was Frank’s first autobiographical film, telling the story of a father’s relationship with his two teenaged children, and his fragile attempts to communicate with them by means of a shared story. The shared story is partly told...
- 1982
Contemporary Photography in America (1982)
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The film of Michael Engler from the year 1982 showing the different methods of operation of photgraphers Harry Callahan, Mark Cohen, Robert Frank, Ralph Gibson, Duane Michals, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, Garry Winogrand and others...
- 1969
Me and My Brother (1969)
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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 in the middle of filming, Frank hires and actor (Joseph Chaikin) to...
- 1972
Cocksucker Blues (1972)
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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....
- 2017
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel (2017)
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The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, which he had salvaged from his own archive for Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel....
- 1963
O.K. End Here (1963)
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O.K. End Here is Frank’s 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots composed with rigid formality, and appears to have been directly influenced by the French Nouvelle Vague and...
- 1988
Candy Mountain (1988)
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A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker...
- 1976
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
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Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963....
- 2015
Life Goes On (2015)
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- 1972
About Us (1972)
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In Fall of 1971, artist Robert Frank came to Rochester, NY to conduct a course on filmmaking at the recently established alternative art school, Visual Studies Workshop. By the time he came to Rochester, Frank had made seven films and was inproductio...
- 1992
Last Supper (1992)
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In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local residents, dealing with the practicality of life, look on as the guests obsess about identity, status, and...
- 1959
Pull My Daisy (1959)
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Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's Bohemian friends crash the par...
- 1983
This Song for Jack (1983)
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- 2015
Don't Blink - Robert Frank (2015)
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The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount of territory he's covered, from The Americans in 1958 up to the present, is intimately registered in his now-form...
- 1961
The Sin of Jesus (1961)
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An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story....
- 1966
Chappaqua (1966)
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Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with ...
- 1981
Energy and How to Get It (1981)
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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 was experimenting with ball lightening and the development of fusion as...
- 1980
Life Dances On... (1980)
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Life Dances On is Robert Frank’s most personal and emotional work because it deals directly with his family and close friends. The film is dedicated to his daughter Andrea and to his friend and collaborator Danny Seymour, both deceased. Life Dances O...
- 1973
Sunseed (1973)
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This documentary explores the growing American interest in the 1970s in Eastern religions and philosophy. The teachings and lifestyles of ten spiritual teachers and their followers are presented without voice-over narration....