Pull My Daisy
Jack Kerouac Pull My Daisy reading
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- Release Date: 1959
- Runtime: 30 min
- Genre: Short
- Starring: Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky ... see all
- Director: Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie
- 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... Read more
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| Nov 08, 2008The New York Times
Shortly after publication of "The Americans," Mr. Frank joined forces with Kerouac again on the artist's second-most-famous work, the experimental short film "Pull My Daisy.
But he appears to have settled into a more expansive, perhaps autumnal mood.
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| May 15, 2008The New York Sun
After the underground success of "The Americans" in the late '50s, Mr. Frank began to concentrate on art films and videos, such as 1959's beatnik reverie "Pull My Daisy.
Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the great tragic poets of the world.
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