
Burroughs (1985)
Director: Howard Brookner
Runtime: 86 min
Country: USA
Language: English, hardsubbed japanese
Color: Color
Keywords: writing
Themes: Writer's Life, Bohemian Life
Time Periods: Beatnik Era
Negative Format: 16mm
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087012/
Why nobody put this rare documentary on mule? should be one of the best Burroughs documentary ever made, probably from a japanese old vhs.
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
and here i found another new Burroughs short on mule:
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109055/
and a experimantal documentary by young Alain Resnais, 13min, b/w:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042528/