Burroughs

• Director: Howard Brookner
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Language & Literature
• Movie Type: Literary Studies, Social History
• Themes: Bohemian Life, Writer's Life
• Main Cast: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg
• Release Year: 1983
• Country: US
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

Plot

This biographical documentary on author and eccentric William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), founder of the Beat Generation literary movement along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, is roughly divided into two segments. The first part has some witty scenes as the camera follows the author around to his various early haunts in the U.S., London, and Morocco. His friends are interviewed, including an interesting segment with Allen Ginsberg. In the second half of the film Burroughs becomes more of an exhibitionist than a subject, suggesting that discretionary editing would have made a smaller but better final version. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Cast

• William S. Burroughs
• Allen Ginsberg

Terry Southern; Brion Gysin; Jackie Curtis; Francis Bacon; Otto Belue; Patti Smith; Lauren Hutton

Credit

Howard Brookner - Director, Joëlle van Effenterre - Editor, Scott Vickrey - Editor, Ben Morris - Editor, Howard Brookner - Cinematographer, Tom DiCillo - Cinematographer, Mike Southon - Cinematographer, Howard Brookner - Producer, Jim Jarmusch - Sound/Sound Designer, Peter Miller - Sound/Sound Designer

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