Movies: Gregory Corso

  • 1990
    The Godfather Part III

    The Godfather Part III (1990)

    The Godfather Part III

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    In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing....

    The Godfather Part III
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 1959
    Pull My Daisy

    Pull My Daisy (1959)

    Pull My Daisy

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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...

    Pull My Daisy
  • 1993
    What About Me

    What About Me (1993)

    What About Me

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    After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York....

    What About Me
  • 1999
    The Source

    The Source (1999)

    The Source

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    Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film ...

    The Source
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project (2007)

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns...

    365 Day Project
  • 1997
    Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

    Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)

    Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

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    This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close friends; and the wrapping up and removal of Allen's body from the apartment. You hear Jonas' descript...

    Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
  • 1965
    Wholly Communion

    Wholly Communion (1965)

    Wholly Communion

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    A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1...

    Wholly Communion
  • 1964
    Couch

    Couch (1964)

    Couch

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    The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in ...

    Couch
  • 2012
    The Beat Hotel

    The Beat Hotel (2012)

    The Beat Hotel

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    The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States su...

    The Beat Hotel
  • 1989
    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets (1989)

    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

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    Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Also weaves in ...

    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
  • 1983
    This Song for Jack

    This Song for Jack (1983)

    This Song for Jack

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    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 composer...

    This Song for Jack
  • 1979
    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979)

    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

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    After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City. Associated through mutual friendships, these cultural dissidents looked for new ways and means to exp...

    Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
  • 1984
    Ginsberg/Corso Tapes

    Ginsberg/Corso Tapes (1984)

    Ginsberg/Corso Tapes

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    Longtime friends and frequent foils, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appeared onstage together countless times over the years, reading to audiences that sometimes numbered in the hundreds or thousands. On January 9, 1984, Robert Frank filmed Ginsber...

    Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
  • 1991
    Original Beats

    Original Beats (1991)

    Original Beats

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    Original Beats is a short documentary film by Francois Bernadi on Gregory Corso and Herbert Huncke. A fascinating and informative portrait on the eldest and the youngest of the original Beats, filmed shortly before Huncke's death in 1996....

    Original Beats
  • 1960
    Happy Death

    Happy Death (1960)

    Happy Death

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    A film by Gregory Corso and Jay Socin...

    Happy Death