Candy Mountain, the Indie film about a musician’s quest to find a legendary guitar craftsman, has been digitally restored in 2K and will be re-released to theaters this week on October 25, 2024. It is arriving courtesy of Film Movement.

Originally released in 1987, the film stars character actors Kevin J O’Conner and Harris Yulin, as well as Bulle Ogier, with a supporting cast featuring real-life music legends Tom Waits, Leon Redbone, Joe Strummer, Dr. John, David Johansen and Arto Lindsay.

Candy Mountain combines the eye of the photographer Robert Frank (The Rolling Stones documentary Cocksucker Blues) with novelist/screenwriter Wurlitzer’s American prose to craft a memorable road movie.

Set in New York City in the 1980s, “Candy Mountain” follows a struggling musician named Julius (Kevin J. O’Connor) who has fallen on hard times. With no guitar, band or paying gigs, he cooks up a get-rich-quick scheme: to find the legendary, yet elusive guitar-maker Elmore Silk (Harris Yulin). Meant to be a simple journey upstate to track Silk down, Julius stumbles down a long, winding road full of dead-ends and wrong turns towards an eventual revelation in the Canadian wilderness. 

This year the art world will also be celebrating Frank’s poignant images of American life in the mid-20th century. Among the events and exhibitions to be held are “Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue,” the first-ever solo exhibition of his work to be presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York which will begin in September 2024.