Luca Guadagnino and Justin Kuritzkes on how they wove William S. Burroughs' killing of his wife into the ending of 'Queer.' ...
Luca Guadagnino’s new film stays remarkably true to William Burroughs’ novella, set in Mexico and the Ecuadorian jungle.
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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.
Producer/director Luca Guadagnino’s screen adaptation of the 1985 William S. Burroughs novella “Queer” is, by turns, ...
The Shiny Black Door, which opened on the second floor of Thornes Marketplace in November, is a collaboration between ...
I’m like one of those deranged soldiers they find on some remote island still fighting a war that’s ended decades ago,” he ...
Luca Guadagnino’s hugely disappointing adaptation of William S Burroughs’s posthumously published novella opens with Sinéad O’Connor’s cover of the Nirvana song All Apologies and randomised objects ...
The film, based on Burroughs’s 1985 novella of the same name, is a thinly fictionalized portrait of the author’s years spent living in the demimonde of Mexico City in the late 1940s.
who was then a dealer of rare books and manuscripts; and the Vaduz financier. I was getting regular reports from James. Around the same time, Ginsberg suggested that Burroughs leave his agent for ...
When director Luca Guadagnino first read the 1985 novella, “Queer” by William S. Burroughs, he was 17 — and it stuck with him. Many decades later, it’s the source of a new film starring Daniel Craig.
The book is a sprawling work of genius, responsible for popularising magical realism as a literary genre and winning García Márquez a Nobel prize. Surprisingly, despite its popularity, it has never ...