Lee is a fictionalized stand-in for the Beat Writer William S. Burroughs, whose years spent living in Mexico were eventful, ...
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The Romanticized Squalor of Queer
Luca Guadagnino makes William S. Burroughs’s novella a love story that is sordid, pathetic, affecting, and true.
It’s an ending that deviates from and expands upon author William S. Burroughs’ source material, but one that sticks close to the Beat author’s actual biography. In the movie, Allerton ...
Queer, the adaptation of William S. Burroughs' seminal novel, was adapted by Justin Kuritzkes, directed by Luca Guadagnino ...
As David Cronenberg proved with his 1991 film Naked Lunch, adapting the often abstract works of writer William S. Burroughs ...
Queer’ is a construct. ‘William Lee’ is a construct. It’s out of Burroughs’s imagination, and so I don’t have to be Burroughs, which lets me off [the hook]. “The last thing I wanted ...
In this adaptation of Burroughs' autobiographical novel, Craig plays an American who falls hard for a younger man in 1950s Mexico City. It's a... In 'Queer,' Daniel Craig is outstanding as a ...
Lee is a fictionalized stand-in for the Beat Writer William S. Burroughs, whose years spent living in Mexico were eventful, to say the least. He began writing Queer in 1952, while awaiting trial ...