Burroughs: The Movie is a 1983 documentary by Howard Brookner about the author William S. Burroughs. Brookner shot the film for five years with Burroughs’ full cooperation. The two became good friends before Brookner died of AIDS in 1989. In 2012 Brookner’s archive was discovered in a variety of locations, and the filmmaker’s nephew, Aaron Brookner, oversaw the restoration of the Burroughs film including the recovery of never-before-seen interviews with the likes of Andy Warhol and others. That film was re-released last year to coincide with the Burroughs Centenary. This year, Aaron is premiering his own film about his uncle and his work at Sundance, and the trailer for Uncle Howard reads like hanging out in the greatest scene in New York’s late 1970′s and early 1980′s…
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