The Criterion Collection
Burroughs: The Movie
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Directed by: Howard Brookner
Featuring: William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Jackie Curtis, William S. Burroughs Jr., Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith
Year: 1983
Time: 90 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 789
Release Date: December 15 2015
MSRP:
$29.95
DVD
2 Discs | DVD-9
1.33:1 ratio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: English
Region 1
New audio commentary by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, who was a sound recordist on the film
Audio interview with director Howard Brookner from 1985, conducted by William S. Burroughs biographer Ted Morgan
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 Jim Jarmusch, Aaron Brookner, filmmaker Tom DiCillo, and Burroughs’s friend and fellow writer James Grauerholz
Thirty-minute experimental edit of the film from 1981 by inventor and photographer Robert E. Fulton III
An essay by critic Luc Sante and collage artwork by artist Alison Mosshart