Burroughs

Although "Burroughs" unravels as if it was thrown together, you don't have many Burroughs documentaries to choose from. I rented this from Home Film Festival, the only place I've found it available. The film goes back to Burroughs childhood, does... Full review

Insightful documentary about novelist William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) should appeal to his devotees to a greater extent than the rest of us. Nonetheless, it's odd and revealing in much the way CRUMB is, and strangely compelling. Perhaps it could... Full review

The few talking heads we receive positively are William Burroughs, because he says things like, Everything I have to say, I say in my books, and those people whose best work is done in sound bites. The movie is coherent, but largely inconsequential. ... Full Review

moving to the suburbs, Burroughs and Company retreated to artists' havens in Paris, New York, Tangiers, and Montreal.....As well, the show celebrated Beat Generation progenitor Brion Gysin..... ... Full Review

It was Gysin who fostered Burroughs' obsession with Hassan i Sabbah, legendary messiah of the cult of Hashishim....Still, given the dearth of material about Brion Gysin, we'll take what we can get..... ... Full Review

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. ... Full Review

Jim Carroll, "the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs," said William Grimes in The New York Times , died from a heart attack on Friday at the age of 60. ... Full Article

A new documentary on William S. Burroughs is in production and the trailer looks fantastic. Titled "A Man Within," the film is directed by Yony Leyser and features the likes of WSB's friends and collaborators Laurie Anderson, Iggy Pop, V. ... Full Article

Counter cultural pandrogenous provocateur Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and her reactivated Psychic TV aka "PTV3" recently released their second album Mr. Alien Brain vs. the Skinwalkers . ... Full Article

Barney Rosset is a name you most likely aren't familiar with. If I were to tell you that you should see a documentary about a book publisher from the '50s through the '70s, you might yawn and try to change... ... Full Article

Destroy All Rational Thought is a step into the Beat Generation, containing one of the last interviews given by William Burroughs. This documentary takes you through the art and times of the historical Beat Generation, it tells of the experiments... ... Full Article

The dark forces of the far right ascend. The thrones of power brook no opposition and discredit all those who try. Sound a nudge familiar? ... Full Article