Burroughs [Criterion Collection] [2 Discs]

Burroughs [Criterion Collection] [2 Discs]

Howard Brookner
Burroughs [Criterion Collection] [2 Discs]

Burroughs [Criterion Collection] [2 Discs]

Howard Brookner

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Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date: 12/15/2015
UPC: 0715515161619
Original Release: 1983
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Presentation: [B&W]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 1:30:00
Sales rank: 27,436

Special Features

New, high-definition digital restoration; New Audio Commentary by Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, who was a sound recordist on the film; Audio interview with Director Howard Brookner from 1985; New interview with Brookner's nephew, filmmaker Aaron Brookner, who oversaw the film's restoration; Rare outtakes; Footage from the 2014 New York Film Festival premiere of the film's restoration, featuring a Q&A with Jarmusch, Aaron Brookner, filmmaker Tom DiCillo, and William S. Burrough's friend and fellow writer James Grauerholz; Twenty-three minute experimental edit of the film from 1981 by inventor and photographer Robert E. Fulton III; Plus: An essay by critic Luc Sante and collage artwork by artist Alison Mosshart

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Technical Credits
Howard Brookner Director,Producer
Peter Miller Sound/Sound Designer
Jim Jarmusch Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Burroughs
1. Saturday Night Live, 1981 [5:30]
2. The Place of Dead Roads [8:25]
3. Childhood in St. Louis [4:34]
4. Jack, Allen and Lucien [8:17]
5. Opiates and Nova Criminals [5:23]
6. Dr. Benway Operates [2:34]
7. Joan [8:21]
8. Junky and Huncke [3:40]
9. Tangier and Naked Lunch [4:32]
10. Cut-ups and Nova Express [6:34]
11. James and William Jr [9:40]
12. Going West and Weapons [3:42]
13. The Bunker, New York City [8:50]
14. Nova Convention [4:39]
15. "The Unworthy Vessel" [5:13]
Disc #2 -- Burroughs
1. Chapter 1 [23:46]
1. Chapter 1 [1:57]
2. Chapter 2 [5:03]
3. Chapter 3 [8:33]
4. Chapter 4 [2:46]
5. Chapter 5 [2:01]
1. Chapter 1 [2:28]
2. Chapter 2 [1:17]
3. Chapter 3 [1:37]
4. Chapter 4 [5:49]
5. Chapter 5 [2:52]
1. Chapter 1 [8:14]
1. Chapter 1 [1:06]
2. Chapter 2 [1:20]
3. Chapter 3 [1:40]
4. Chapter 4 [1:13]
5. Chapter 5 [1:00]
6. Chapter 6 [1:04]
7. Chapter 7 [1:13]
8. Chapter 8 [1:30]
9. Chapter 9 [5:23]
1. Chapter 1 [4:11]
2. Chapter 2 [3:38]
3. Chapter 3 [3:34]
1. Chapter 1 [23:36]
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