The Early Films by Robert Frank
The Silent Theater – Los Angeles, CA
7/18/09
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Robert Frank’s landmark publication, “The Americans”, and in conjunction with MOCA’s exhibition From the Permanent Collection: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”, MOCA, Los Angeles Filmforum and the Cinefamily present an evening of early films by the renowned photographer Robert Frank. Pull My Daisy (1959, b/w, 28 min.), directed by Frank and Alfred Leslie from a script by Jack Kerouac, is a classic, whimsical, even magical work of avant-garde cinema revolving around a group of beat poets (Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso) who question a bishop (Richard Bellamy) and his mother (Alice Neel) about art, poetry and everyday life. Me and My Brother (1965-68, re-edited 1997, b/w and color, 91 min.), Frank’s first feature-length film (given a re-edit treatment in 1997 to mark Allen Ginsberg’s passing), blends documentary footage of Ginsberg and Orlovsky with fictional constructs, as it explores the inner and outer worlds of Julius, a catatonic who silently observes the world around him. For info on more of LA Filmforum’s Robert Frank series at the Egyptian Theater and MOCA (on July 19 & 26), visit lafilmforum.wordpress.com!

Dir. Robert Frank, 35mm/16mm, 120 min.

7/18 @ 7:30pm

Tickets – $12, Buy Here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71361

via EM Staff, 14 July 2009 12:23pm | |