TV Guide: William Burroughs

Video: Brazil: On the River of Shamans

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Riku and Tunna travel from the urban jungles of Rio's favelas to the rainforests of the Amazon basin in the footsteps of William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, searching for the deepest swamps and quagmires of the sub-consciousness.

Video: First Snow

Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: A fortune teller predicts an unlikely windfall for a seedy salesman, then makes a frightening forecast that causes the man's life to spiral downward. Intense psychological thriller from the writer of Iron Man and Children of Men.

Video: Headlines - The Vinyl Countdown

The Daily Show — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, and a band named for a dildo and a William S. Burroughs novel. (1:16)

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The trailer for Corso: The Last Beat. A film made for 18 - 35's to make "The Beats" - icons of American Culture - accessible to a new generation. A rediscovery of The Beats inner circle Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso by revealing their most comic and entertaining member, Corso. After the passing of Ginsberg and Burroughs, Corso is "On The Road" in Europe on a madcap odyssey searching for his muse. In sidesplitting antics, Corso retraces The Beats early days as expatriates. Amazingly, through the film, Corso finds his own lost mother, who abandoned him in his first year, 67 years before, to return to Italy. However, she is not dead, but alive, and not in Italy but in Trenton N.J. They meet on film. Corso is revitalized and returns to Greenwich Village to work again. In ultimate irony Corso faces his own mortality with humor and pluck, comforted by Ethan Hawke, Patti Smith and his newfound mother.

Video: Beat

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.

Video: Beat

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.

Video: Uluma

IMDB Videos — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Howl is an homage to the reading rituals of the Beat poets, to Wholly Communion, to 1965, to Allen Ginsberg, to Jack Kerouac, to William Burroughs, to all those books that we believe to be published in heaven, and to all the restless spirits...

Video: William S. Burroughs: Thee Films 1950s - 1960s

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

When writer William S Burroughs and artist Brion Gysin met Anthony Balch at the Beat Hotel in Paris at the start of the sixties, they knew they had the ideal person to assist them in translating the ideas they had explored in experimental art forms to film. A legendary figure in British film, Balch was renowned for his bizarre experimentation with the European art/exploitation he acquired. This unique collection comprimises all the films he made during that lengthy period of collaboration between Burroughs, Gysin, and Balch. In addition, the video includes a 50 minute film called 'Ghosts at No. 9' which uses cut-ups of film and superimpositions, material from the extensive archive of Psychic TV, and to which Genesis added the distinctive soundtrack.

Video: William S. Burroughs: Thee Films 1950s - 1960s

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Timothy Learly on Mind Expansion

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Timothy Leary was a former Harvard psychologist whose advocacy of mind-altering drugs made him, in Richard Nixon's words, ''the most dangerous man in America.'' His quoted ''tune in, turn on, drop out '' phrase was a major counterculture slogan.

Video: Antiques Roadshow, Kansas City, Hour 1

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

When Antiques Roadshow makes a stop in Kansas City, Missouri, host Dan Elias reveals how it went from cow town to "Paris of the Plains," with almost as many fountains as Rome and Swopes Park's two thousand acres of formal gardens and winding boulevards. Appraisers at the Kansas City Convention Center encounter a remarkable array of objects, including a vase made for the Imperial Household of China between 1736 and 1795, a wild collection of memorabilia -- including a tee shirt with bullet holes -- documenting the life and antics of beat generation writer William Burroughs, and an 1880s Pennsylvania poplar dry sink with fantastic grain painted finish, estimated to be worth $8,000.