| World Cinema Showcase 2011 - 'WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN' |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Tuesday, 05 April 2011 17:43 |
 WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN USA | 2010 | 87 minutes DIRECTOR: Yony Leyser. CAST: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Amiri Baraka, John Waters, Peter Weller, Genesis P-Orridge, Gus Van Sant. "An intimate, moving, many-voiced portrait of Beat icon author of taboo-busting landmarks Queer, Junkie and The Naked Lunch." "For those who celebrate [writer] Burroughs as one of the darkest and greatest of all comic artists, he is an extreme social satirist…whose quasi-pornographic images offer a stark, ghastly/funny photonegative image of the American body politic. A Man Within is a kind of genealogy of hip that connects Burroughs, who was born in St. Louis in 1914, the wealthy Harvard-educated grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Adding Machine company, with many currents of America’s outlaw cultural tradition. He was a close friend and sometime lover of Allen Ginsberg… – and an idol of punk rockers like the Clash, the Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop and Sonic Youth… A Man Within assiduously tries to humanize an author whom it is all too easy to view as an avenging nihilist… There is not a word or image wasted in a documentary you wish ran an extra half-hour beyond its condensed 90 minutes." — Stephen Holden, NY Times. Click HERE for more details on 'William S. Burroughs: A Man Within'. Thanks to our friends at the World Cinema Showcase, we have a double-pass to give away to the Auckland, April 15th screening of 'William S. Burroughs: A Man Within'! To be entered into the draw to win the double-pass, e-mail the titles of five books that William S. Burroughs has written, with WSC WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS COMP in the subject box, and your full name and mailing address to: mail@coupdemainmagazine.com. AUCKLAND: SKYCITY Theatre Fri 8 April, 11.15 am / Fri 15 April, 6.30 pm / Sun 17 April, 11.00 am WELLINGTON: Paramount Tue 26 April, 12.15 pm / Wed 27 April, 6.30 pm / Thu 28 April, 11.00 am DUNEDIN: Rialto Cinemas Fri 13 May, 7.00 pm / Mon 16 May, 8.30 pm Click HERE for the full list of films playing at the World Cinema Showcase 2011. Watch the trailer for 'William S. Burroughs: A Man Within' below... |
