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Jim Carroll's FilmsUpdated 15 February 2009
Released: 2006 Director: William Tyler Smith Studio: Oglio Records Genre: Documentary Format: DVD Rating: Not Rated Run Time: 56 minutes From Amazon.com: William Burroughs said that when two minds collaborate, a third mind is created. This is the third mind between the psychedelic and beat sensibilities of Manzarek and McClure. . . . With appearances by Alan Ginsberg, Jim Carroll, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima, Ed Sanders, Lee Ranaldo,and Ann Waldman, "The Third Mind" DVD is a compelling primer on the impact of music on the Beat Generation. Links: Get this film on Amazon.com 
Released: 1995 Director: Scrott Kalvert Studio: Island Pictures Genre: Drama Format: VHS, DVD, Laserdisc Rating: R (Restricted) Run Time: 102 Minutes Leonardo DiCaprio stars as "Jim" in this controversial, very loose adaptation of Carroll's autobiography. Also features Mark Wahlberg as "Mickey," James Madio as Pedro," Bruno Kirby as "Swifty," Lorraine Bracco as Jim's mother, Ernie Hudson as "Reggie," and Patrick McGaw as "Neutron." Carroll makes a cameo appearance as "Frankie Pinewater." Links: Get this film on Amazon.com 
Special feature on the film The Basketball Diaries feature section
Released: 1999 Director: Chuck Workman Studio: Calliope Films Genre: Documentary Format: DVD Rating: Not Rated Run Time: 88 minutes This documentary of the Beat Generation, focusing on Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs, features a brief clip of Carroll reading "Times Square's Cage" from Forced Entries. Links: Get this film on Amazon.com 
Released: 1998 Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Studio: Winstar Genre:Documentary Format: DVD Rating: Not Rated Run Time: 73 minutes This outstanding PBS documentary explores the life, work, and influence of Lou Reed, with interviews from David Bowie, Patti Smith, John Cale, Thurston Moore, and many others. Jim Carroll features prominently among the interviewees -- he even gets the last laugh. Links: Get this film on Amazon.com 
Curtis's Charm
Released: 1995 Director: Ron Mann Studio: Sphinx Productions Genre: Documentary Format: CD-ROM Rating: Not Rated This sequel to Poetry in Motion is actually a CD-ROM (rather than a "video" or DVD). It offers performances by 24 artists. Those not included in the original film are Tom Clark, Spalding Gray, Bob Holman, Peter Orlovsky, and Alice Notley, among others. Carroll reads "Work, Not Play" and talks about following his idol Frank O'Hara through the streets of Manhattan. Links: Sphinx Productions website
Released: 1985 Director: Fritz Kiersch Studio: New World Video / Starz / Anchor Bay Genre: Drama Format: DVD, VHS Rating: R (Restricted) Run Time: 111 minutes A
typical 1980s high-school adventure-love story, the film stars James Spader, Kim Richards,
and Paul Mones. Carroll appears briefly, as himself, in a dance club scene in
which he performs (lip-syncing and playing air guitar--upside-down) "Voices"
and "It's Too Late." He has one speaking part between songs. "People
Who Died" serves as background music during a car scene.
Released: 1984 Director: Ron Mann Studio: Sphinx Productions Genre: Drama Format: VHS Rating: Not Rated In this "political fable" dealing with unemployment in Canada, Carroll appears in almost every scene as a hospital inmate wandering the streets of Toronto, still hooked up to an IV. Links: Sphinx Productions website
Released: 1982 Director: Ron Mann Studio: Sphinx Productions / Home Vision Genre: Documentary Format: DVD, VHS Rating: Not Rated Run Time: 91 minutes A brilliant documentary featuring performances and commentary by Charles Bukowski, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, Michael McClure, John Giorno, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and others. Carroll reads "Just Visiting," from The Book of Nods. The performances are also available on the album Life Is a Killer. Links: Get this film on Amazon.com  or iTunesSphinx Productions website
Released: 1989 Director: Maria Beatty Studio: Bleu Production Genre:Documentary Format: DVD, VHS Rating: Not Rated Run Time: 60 minutes This documentary provides insight into how and why these poets have chosen to be poets and how they write their poetry. Contains interviews with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Faithfull, Jim Carroll, John Giorno, Gregory Corso, Diane Diprima, Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman, Henry Rollins, Richard Hell and Lydia Lunch. Links: Get this film on Amazon.com 
American Poetry Archives, 1974 Recorded live at San Francisco State University 10 October 1974 This 30-minute video features a 24-year-old, long-haired Jim Carroll reading his earliest work. It's a treasure. According to the catalogue, the reading includes "The Calypso of Eucalypti," "A man is struggling...," "Sun heightens itself across my face...," "Coal sweep...," "For John Wieners," "Poem for Man," "Some Fears," "Andy's Daughters," "Home," "Working," "Kitten - Self Pity," "Poem for Edmund Joseph Berrigan," "A Piano Solo at Carnegie Hall," "Living at the Movies," "Crossed Wires," "Leaving New York City," "To a Poetess," "California Poem," "Midnight," "Prell," "Back Home," "Love Story," "It doesn't matter...," "Chelsea May," "Savage Bubbles," "Paregoric Babies," "Highway Report," and "An Apple at Dawn." More Information: THE POETRY CENTER & AMERICAN POETRY ARCHIVES San Francisco State Univ. 1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132 Ph: 415-338-2227 FAX: 415-338-0966 http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit/newcatalog/200.htm See also: 1978 Rimbaud Lectures 
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