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Pinball London, Ltd.
Directed by: Howard Brookner
Featuring: William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Jackie Curtis, William S. Burroughs Jr., Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith
Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner’s 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director’s nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Now viewers can enjoy the invigorating candidness of Burroughs: The Movie, a one-of-a-kind nonfiction portrait that was brought to life with the help of a remarkable crew of friends, including Jim Jarmusch and Tom DiCillo, and that features on-screen appearances by fellow artists of Burroughs’s including Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, and Terry Southern.
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Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Audio Interview, Interview, Outtakes, Q&A, Alternate Edit, Booklet
- 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 Lucy Sante and collage artwork by artist Alison Mosshart
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