Don't Blink: Robert Frank (Movie)

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-formidable body of artistic gestures. From the early '90s on, Frank has been making his films and videos with the brilliant editor Laura Israel, who has helped him to keep things homemade and preserve the illuminating spark of first contact between camera and people/places. Don't Blink is Israel's like-minded portrait of her friend and collaborator, a lively rummage sale of images and sounds and recollected passages and unfathomable losses and friendships that leaves us a fast and fleeting imprint of the life of the Swiss-born man who reinvented himself the American way, and is still standing on ground of his own making at the age of 90.

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1. Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank (Movie) (3)
   

   Allen Ginsberg...Himself

   Sid Kaplan...Himself

   June Leaf...Herself
2. Home Improvements (1985) (Movie) (3)
   

   Robert Frank...

   June Leaf...

   Pablo Frank...
3. Burroughs: The Movie (1984) (Movie) (2)
   

   William S. Burroughs...Self

   

   Allen Ginsberg...Self
4. Chappaqua (1966) (Movie) (2)
   

   William S. Burroughs...Opium Jones

   

   Allen Ginsberg...Messiah
5. Condo Painting (2000) (Movie) (2)
   

   William S. Burroughs...

   

   Allen Ginsberg...
6. Energy and How to Get It (1981) (Movie) (2)
   

   William S. Burroughs...

   

   Robert Downey Sr....
7. Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979) (Movie) (2)
   

   Allen Ginsberg...Himself

   

   William S. Burroughs...Himself
8. Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets (1989) (Movie) (2)
   

   William S. Burroughs...Himself

   

   Allen Ginsberg...Himself
9. Heavy Petting (1989) (Movie) (2)
   

   Allen Ginsberg...Himself

   

   William S. Burroughs...Himself
10. It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen (Movie) (2)
    

    William S. Burroughs...Mafioso

    

    Allen Ginsberg...Lawyer
11. Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1999) (Movie) (2)
    

    William S. Burroughs...Himself

    

    Allen Ginsberg...Himself
12. Poetry in Motion (1982) (Movie) (2)
    

    William S. Burroughs...

    

    Allen Ginsberg...
13. Pull My Daisy (1959) (Movie) (2)
    

    Allen Ginsberg...Allen

    Pablo Frank...
14. The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (2003) (Movie) (2)
    

    William S. Burroughs...Himself (Archive Footage)

    

    Allen Ginsberg...Himself (Archive Footage)
15. This Song for Jack (1983) (Movie) (2)
    

    William S. Burroughs...

    

    Allen Ginsberg...
16. Thot-Fal'N (1978) (Movie) (2)
    

    William S. Burroughs...Himself

    

    Allen Ginsberg...Himself
17. Uncle Howard (2017) (Movie) (2)
    

    William S. Burroughs...Self

    

    Allen Ginsberg...Self (archive footage)
18. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010) (Movie) (2)
    

    William S. Burroughs...Self

    

    Allen Ginsberg...Self (archive footage)