Once lost but now found, Burroughs: The Movie receives a sterling Blu-ray fix from the Criterion Collection.
The documenary bears witness to William S. Burroughs’s quiet renaissance in the early 1980s.
One of the few jazz films, or music films in general, to not simply explain its subject, but illustrate his mien.
Jeon Kyu-hwan’s The Weight often suggests a very sick joke that somehow concludes with a shaggy-dog variation of “and you think you got problems?”
This re-release of Croneberg’s ecstatic masterpiece is cause for celebration. Mugwump jism can’t be beat.