Burroughs’ book was nearly filmed by Steve Buscemi in 2011 ... but is driven by Craig’s central performance as William Lee, an expatriate American of invisible means living a life of self-exile in ...
Drew Starkey as Eugene Allerton and Daniel Craig as William Lee in “Queer.” “I think it’s even more radical to call a book or ...
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 ...
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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.
In the early 1950s, William Burroughs – drug addict ... Queer is one of Burroughs’ most realist novels, and the movie reflects this. The stylistic, formal and thematic experimentation of ...
Explicit and erotic, “Queer” is told in three chapters with an epilogue, but structurally it’s divided in two portions.
Arguably the most gifted melodicist of his generation, Dando was the bronzed, blond pin-up boy of Nineties indie rock – ...
The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City. Though he completed the novella ...
William S. Burroughs was a gay drug addict. A knot of contradictions, he was also deeply homophobic, sexist, racist and a gun ...
The holiday movie season is in full swing. “Wicked” and “Moana 2” are very strong. “Conclave” just keeps chugging along. Why ...