William S. Burroughs
Мэдэгддэг: Writing
Төрсөн өдөр: 1914-02-05
Төрсөн газар: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Түүнчлэн гэж нэрлэдэг:
Chappaqua
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in...
Суллах : 1966.08.30Алдартай байдал : 3.291
FLicKeR
In 1960, Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations, drugless highs, and revolutionize...
Суллах : 2009.07.14Алдартай байдал : 2.511
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
Суллах : 2010.11.05Алдартай байдал : 8.393
Take Your Pills
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?
Суллах : 2018.03.09Алдартай байдал : 11.817
Relics: Einstein's Brain
Documentary about Kenji Sugimoto, professor in Math and Science history at Kinki university in Japan. He has spent the last 30 years publishing works...
Суллах : 1994.01.01Алдартай байдал : 1.371
Bloodhounds of Broadway
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that...
Суллах : 1989.11.03Алдартай байдал : 3.04
Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees
Computer programmer/beekeeper Jacob gets a "television" implanted in his brain by a race of telekinetic bees, which causes him to experience severe...
Суллах : 1991.10.21Алдартай байдал : 2.927
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) is profiled by a filmmaker who has been...
Суллах : 1999.04.01Алдартай байдал : 1.04
The Final Academy Documents
Documentation of the showcase titled 'The Final Academy', filmed on October 4, 1982 in The Haçienda, Manchester. Video 1 features the movies...
Суллах : 1984.08.16Алдартай байдал : 1.458
Decoder
F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local...
Суллах : 1984.02.19Алдартай байдал : 6.913
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.
Суллах : 1994.01.25Алдартай байдал : 3.646
Twister
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He...
Суллах : 1989.06.30Алдартай байдал : 9.563
Obscene
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Naked Lunch"...
Суллах : 2008.09.26Алдартай байдал : 1.982
William Buys a Parrot
A bizarre silent short film showing author William S. Burroughs negotiating to buy a parrot.
Суллах : 1963.10.16Алдартай байдал : 0.947
The Junky's Christmas
Burroughs takes down a book and reads us the story of Danny the Carwiper, who spends Christmas Day trying to score a fix, but finds the Christmas...
Суллах : 1993.04.14Алдартай байдал : 2.138
Ornette: Made in America
Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.
Суллах : 1986.02.21Алдартай байдал : 2.87
Glitterbug
A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
Суллах : 1994.03.05Алдартай байдал : 0.695
Condo Painting
John McNaughton's spotlight on George Condo and his art. The film, which follows the progress of Condo's large-scale oil painting Big Red over the...
Суллах : 2000.03.17Алдартай байдал : 1.135
Bill and Tony
Experimental film by William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch
Суллах : 1972.02.07Алдартай байдал : 1.193
Towers Open Fire
Antony Balch tackles key themes and ideas from the writing of William S. Burroughs in a unique, cinematic style.
Суллах : 1963.12.27Алдартай байдал : 1.611
The Cut-Ups
Essentially a dizzying montage of quirky shots of legendary Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs and noted surrealist artist Brion Gysin, this...
Суллах : 1966.01.01Алдартай байдал : 1.54
Ghost at No. 9
Experimental artistic film which uses the milieu of experimental art with a background of various kinds of sounds and music. (worldcat.org)...
Суллах : 1982.01.11Алдартай байдал : 1.785
Home of the Brave
A concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey, during the summer of...
Суллах : 1986.04.27Алдартай байдал : 1.168
The Source
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in...
Суллах : 1999.01.23Алдартай байдал : 3.2
William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers
An hour-long interview with author William S. Burroughs in which he expounds on American culture, art and morals.
Суллах : 1991.01.01Алдартай байдал : 1.526
Thanksgiving Prayer
An indictment ballad of all the different political groups in America.
Суллах : 1991.01.01Алдартай байдал : 1.236
Destroy All Rational Thought
The great Beat Generation experiments took place in Tangier, the Moroccan city where William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and the Moroccan painter Hamri...
Суллах : 1998.01.01Алдартай байдал : 4.256
Coda I
Peter Gidal’s starting point for his 16mm film was a soundtrack that consists of three lines from a 1,000 word story written by Gidal in 1971,...
Суллах : 2013.01.01Алдартай байдал : 0.407
Coda I + Coda II
Peter Gidal’s starting point for his 16mm film was a soundtrack that consists of three lines from a 1,000 word story written by Gidal in 1971,...
Суллах : 2013.10.09Алдартай байдал : 3.09
Naked Making Lunch
A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.
Суллах : 1992.12.29Алдартай байдал : 1.622
Shamans of the Blind Country
A documentary epic on magical healing in the Himalayas.
Суллах : 1981.04.11Алдартай байдал : 2.491
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City....
Суллах : 1979.10.01Алдартай байдал : 1.001
For No Good Reason
For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly...
Суллах : 2012.10.12Алдартай байдал : 3.002
Wanderlust
A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd...
Суллах : 2006.07.12Алдартай байдал : 2.205
Fix: The Ministry Movie
Provides an insider's view of the groundbreaking, outrageous, creative juggernaut that was the band Ministry - during their world tour - as front man...
Суллах : 2011.07.21Алдартай байдал : 4.904
Ah Pook Is Here.
A disturbingly organic-looking figure speaks to us of life, politics and death as the symbol of the common man toils away. Written and narrated by...
Суллах : 1994.10.01Алдартай байдал : 3.767
The Beat Hotel
The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963,...
Суллах : 2012.03.30Алдартай байдал : 1.005
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears...
Суллах : 2022.01.16Алдартай байдал : 2.077
Underground and Emigrants
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts...
Суллах : 1976.10.25Алдартай байдал : 3.165
Pantelia
An abstract exploration of the number 10.
Суллах : 2006.10.10Алдартай байдал : 0
Burroughs: The Movie
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion...
Суллах : 1984.02.10Алдартай байдал : 1.64
Chelsea Hotel
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy...
Суллах : 1981.01.03Алдартай байдал : 0.92
Pirate Tape
Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the...
Суллах : 1983.01.01Алдартай байдал : 1.121
Energy and How to Get It
Filmed in Wendover, Nevada, in early 1981, Energy and How to Get It combines documentary and fictional ideas. What began as a documentary film about...
Суллах : 1981.08.10Алдартай байдал : 2.495
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
A road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Culture Meeting that took place in 1975 in Montreal....
Суллах : 1976.01.01Алдартай байдал : 1.432
Witchcraft Through the Ages
A seventy-six-minute version of Häxan, re-edited and re-released in the United States by Metro Pictures Corporation in 1968. It is narrated by...
Суллах : 1968.01.03Алдартай байдал : 2.593
Drugstore Cowboy
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine,...
Суллах : 1989.10.20Алдартай байдал : 13.825
Thot-Fal'N
This film describes a psychological state 'kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and...
Суллах : 1978.06.27Алдартай байдал : 1.352
Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs On the Road
A portrait of the American Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) based on never-before-seen footage from his visit to Denmark in...
Суллах : 2007.01.01Алдартай байдал : 1.436
William S. Burroughs: The Possessed
Thelema Now! host Frater Puck discusses William S. Burroughs, possession, synchronicities and chaos magick
Суллах : 2015.01.29Алдартай байдал : 1.576
Cain's Film
A film about Alexander Trocchi. Scottish born poet, writer, translator and author of "Young Adam" and "Cain's Book". Part of the film was made at the...
Суллах : 1969.07.29Алдартай байдал : 0.531
Nova Express
An exhaustive examination of cut-ups, the control machine, and the algebra of need figure in this epic found-footage adaptation of Burroughs’s...
Суллах : 2009.10.20Алдартай байдал : 1.018
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount...
Суллах : 2015.11.19Алдартай байдал : 1.922
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA...
Суллах : 2003.01.01Алдартай байдал : 0.889
Poetry in Motion
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of...
Суллах : 1982.09.17Алдартай байдал : 6.261
Heavy Petting
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie...
Суллах : 1989.09.22Алдартай байдал : 3.123
Poem Posters
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...
Суллах : 1967.05.19Алдартай байдал : 1.809
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
An ironic New York City thriller involving a mafioso and a restless, witty lawyer.
Суллах : 1985.02.01Алдартай байдал : 2.62
The Making of Drugstore Cowboy
Portland, 1988. Filmmaker Gus Van Sant shoots Drugstore Cowboy, the project that will bring he and his collaborators a formidable burst of mainstream...
Суллах : 1999.10.26Алдартай байдал : 1.652
Robert E. Fulton III Edit of Burroughs: The Movie
After two years of filming, director Howard Brookner brought inventor and photographer Robert E. Fulton III a trunkful of William S. Burroughs...
Суллах : 2015.12.15Алдартай байдал : 0.846
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility...
Суллах : 1989.01.01Алдартай байдал : 1.723
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.
Суллах : 1994.05.13Алдартай байдал : 13.611
Uncle Howard
When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two feature documentaries and was in post-production on...
Суллах : 2017.03.10Алдартай байдал : 2.073
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...
Суллах : 2012.03.08Алдартай байдал : 5.293
The Book of Life
New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdalena discuss and debate the End of the World.
Суллах : 1998.08.22Алдартай байдал : 4.556
Chicago
UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A striking documentary shot cinema verite style of the 1968 Democratic National...
Суллах : 1968.01.01Алдартай байдал : 0.216