Películas de William S. Burroughs
Estas son todas las Películas de William S. Burroughs disponibles en este sitio.
- 1966
Chappaqua
Chappaqua6.9 1966 HD
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in...
- 2010
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within6.604 2010 HD
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.
- 2009
FLicKeR
FLicKeR6.8 2009 HD
In 1960, Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations, drugless highs, and revolutionize...
- 1994
Relics: Einstein's Brain
Relics: Einstein's Brain6.7 1994 HD
Documentary about Kenji Sugimoto, professor in Math and Science history at Kinki university in Japan. He has spent the last 30 years publishing works...
- 1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Bloodhounds of Broadway5.7 1989 HD
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...
- 1991
Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees
Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees6.4 1991 HD
Computer programmer/beekeeper Jacob gets a "television" implanted in his brain by a race of telekinetic bees, which causes him to experience severe...
- 1984
Decoder
Decoder6.2 1984 HD
F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local...
- 1999
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles1 1999 HD
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...
- 1989
Twister
Twister5.7 1989 HD
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...
- 2008
Obscene
Obscene5 2008 HD
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"...
- 1963
William Buys a Parrot
William Buys a Parrot6.1 1963 HD
A bizarre silent short film showing author William S. Burroughs negotiating to buy a parrot.
- 1993
The Junky's Christmas
The Junky's Christmas6.917 1993 HD
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...
- 1986
Ornette: Made in America
Ornette: Made in America6.3 1986 HD
Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.
- 1994
Glitterbug
Glitterbug6.3 1994 HD
A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
- 2000
Condo Painting
Condo Painting0 2000 HD
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...
- 1972
Bill and Tony
Bill and Tony5.9 1972 HD
Experimental film by William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch
- 1963
Towers Open Fire
Towers Open Fire6.7 1963 HD
Antony Balch tackles key themes and ideas from the writing of William S. Burroughs in a unique, cinematic style.
- 1966
The Cut-Ups
The Cut-Ups6.8 1966 HD
Essentially a dizzying montage of quirky shots of legendary Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs and noted surrealist artist Brion Gysin, this...
- 1982
Ghost at No. 9
Ghost at No. 98 1982 HD
Experimental artistic film which uses the milieu of experimental art with a background of various kinds of sounds and music. (worldcat.org)...
- 1986
Home of the Brave
Home of the Brave7.938 1986 HD
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...
- 1991
Thanksgiving Prayer
Thanksgiving Prayer6.4 1991 HD
An indictment ballad of all the different political groups in America.
- 1991
William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers
William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers6.8 1991 HD
An hour-long interview with author William S. Burroughs in which he expounds on American culture, art and morals.
- 1998
Destroy All Rational Thought
Destroy All Rational Thought6.3 1998 HD
The great Beat Generation experiments took place in Tangier, the Moroccan city where William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and the Moroccan painter Hamri...
- 1992
Naked Making Lunch
Naked Making Lunch7.1 1992 HD
A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.
- 1981
Shamans of the Blind Country
Shamans of the Blind Country7 1981 HD
A documentary epic on magical healing in the Himalayas.
- 1979
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds6.5 1979 HD
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....
- 2006
Wanderlust
Wanderlust5 2006 HD
A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd...
- 2011
Fix: The Ministry Movie
Fix: The Ministry Movie8 2011 HD
Provides an insider's view of the groundbreaking, outrageous, creative juggernaut that was the band Ministry - during their world tour - as front man...
- 1994
Ah Pook Is Here.
Ah Pook Is Here.5.9 1994 HD
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...
- 1976
Underground and Emigrants
Underground and Emigrants0 1976 HD
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts...
- 1984
Burroughs: The Movie
Burroughs: The Movie7.2 1984 HD
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion...
- 1983
Pirate Tape
Pirate Tape6.9 1983 HD
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...
- 1981
Chelsea Hotel
Chelsea Hotel8 1981 HD
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy...
- 1981
Energy and How to Get It
Energy and How to Get It5.8 1981 HD
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...
- 1989
Drugstore Cowboy
Drugstore Cowboy7.099 1989 HD
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine,...
- 1968
Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages
Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages7 1968 HD
A 1968 collaboration between jazz musician Daniel Humair and beat author William S. Burroughs that recuts and reinterprets the 1922 silent film...
- 1978
Thot-Fal'N
Thot-Fal'N5.4 1978 HD
This film describes a psychological state 'kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and...
- 2007
Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs On the Road
Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs On the Road0 2007 HD
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...
- 2015
William S. Burroughs: The Possessed
William S. Burroughs: The Possessed0 2015 HD
Thelema Now! host Frater Puck discusses William S. Burroughs, possession, synchronicities and chaos magick
- 1969
Cain's Film
Cain's Film0 1969 HD
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...
- 2009
Nova Express
Nova Express2 2009 HD
An exhaustive examination of cut-ups, the control machine, and the algebra of need figure in this epic found-footage adaptation of Burroughs’s...
- 2017
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Don't Blink: Robert Frank7 2017 HD
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...
- 2003
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'0 2003 HD
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...
- 1982
Poetry in Motion
Poetry in Motion7 1982 HD
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of...
- 1983
This Song for Jack
This Song for Jack6 1983 HD
- 1989
Heavy Petting
Heavy Petting5.6 1989 HD
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie...
- 1967
Poem Posters
Poem Posters0 1967 HD
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...
- 1985
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen7.5 1985 HD
An ironic New York City thriller involving a mafioso and a restless, witty lawyer.
- 1999
The Making of Drugstore Cowboy
The Making of Drugstore Cowboy0 1999 HD
Portland, 1988. Filmmaker Gus Van Sant shoots Drugstore Cowboy, the project that will bring he and his collaborators a formidable burst of mainstream...
- 2015
Robert E. Fulton III Edit of Burroughs: The Movie
Robert E. Fulton III Edit of Burroughs: The Movie0 2015 HD
After two years of filming, director Howard Brookner brought inventor and photographer Robert E. Fulton III a trunkful of William S. Burroughs...
- 1989
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets5 1989 HD
Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility...
- 1994
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues4.4 1994 HD
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising and her NY...
- 2017
Uncle Howard
Uncle Howard6.5 2017 HD
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...
- 2012
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye7.1 2012 HD
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...
- 1998
The Book of Life
The Book of Life6.3 1998 HD
The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the...
- 1984
The Final Academy Documents
The Final Academy Documents8 1984 HD
Documentation of the showcase titled 'The Final Academy', filmed on October 4, 1982 in The Haçienda, Manchester. Video 1 features the movies...
- 1994
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill0 1994 HD
Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.
- 1999
The Source
The Source5.1 1999 HD
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...
- 2022
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious0 2022 HD
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...
- 2018
Take Your Pills
Take Your Pills6.6 2018 HD
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?
- 2013
Coda I
Coda I0 2013 HD
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,...
- 2013
Coda I + Coda II
Coda I + Coda II0 2013 HD
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,...
- 2012
For No Good Reason
For No Good Reason7 2012 HD
For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly...
- 2012
The Beat Hotel
The Beat Hotel4.5 2012 HD
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,...
- 2006
Pantelia
Pantelia0 2006 HD
An abstract exploration of the number 10.