As David Cronenberg proved with his 1991 film Naked Lunch, adapting the often abstract works of writer William S. Burroughs ...
Daniel Craig has said he would have felt too “self-conscious” to star in his new film Queer while he was still playing James ...
Regarding what drew him to the film, Craig added: “I’d read William S Burroughs’s Junkie and think I pretended to read Naked Lunch but didn’t know this story. Burroughs’s experience of ...
The Italian director Luca Guadagnino has declared himself a devotee of the “Naked Lunch ... is a construct. ‘William Lee’ is a construct. It’s out of Burroughs’s imagination, and ...
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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.
When William Lee stalks through Mexico ... including a talking anus, that fill Burroughs’s most famous novel, the phantasmagoric “Naked Lunch” (1959). Yet desire suffuses his “Queer ...
Queer, the adaptation of William S. Burroughs' seminal novel, was adapted by Justin Kuritzkes, directed by Luca Guadagnino ...
The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second ... which kept him afloat until his death, at 83, in 1997. Naked Lunch, Burroughs’s third novel, brought literary fame when the magazines ...
William S. Burroughs, claims this is how he killed his second wife. As difficult as it is to believe, Joan's demise doesn't even rank in the top ten strangest moments in Naked Lunch. Despite the ...
SEE ALSO: 'Queer' review: Daniel Craig tackles William S. Burroughs in ... by Allen Ginsberg led to the title of Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch.) "That's exactly the thing that made me feel ...