Frank O'Hara Movies
- 2006
Poets at the Living Theater
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With Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Ray Bremser, Le Roi Jones, Peter Orlovsky, this film takes place in the Living Theater, 1958.
- 1965
Birth of a Nation
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Alfred Leslie's Birth of a Nation 1965 consisted of separate plays drawing upon the words of O'Hara and the writing of the Marquis de Sade.
- 1970
Something Wonderful May Happen: New York School of Poets and Beyond
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In the years after World War II the New York School of Poets set a new agenda for American literature with poetry that did not shy away from common...
- 1954
The Automotive Story
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a quiet, humorous mockumentary on cars, with Freilicher narrating Kenneth Koch’s text and Frank O’Hara as the pianist.
- 1955
Once Upon An El
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"The poet Daisy Aldan (who brought Gerard Malanga into the world of experimental filmmaking) directed a beautifully evocative and impressionistic...
- 1953
Presenting Jane
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In the summer of 1952, poets John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler collaborated with filmmakers Harrison Starr and John Latouche on a...
- 1964
The Last Clean Shirt
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In this short film, comprising a single shot, a man and woman take a car ride through downtown Manhattan. The woman speaks in double-talk Finnish,...