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Words of Advice: William Burroughs On the Road

WHAT
WORDS OF ADVICE: WILLIAM BURROUGHS ON THE ROAD (DIRECTOR'S CUT)

WHERE
MU-MESON, CNR TRAFALGAR & PARRAMATTA RD, ANNANDALE

WHEN
THUR SEP 18, 7.30PM

HOW MUCH
$10 INCLUDING SUPPER

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If the late novelist William Burroughs sat you on his knee for some words of advice then your mother might have something to say about it. Not because he's six feet under, but because the beatnik legend corrupted a fair few minds in his time, spending his last opiate-addicted years shooting spray paint cans onto blank canvases.

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Event: Film

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Naked Lunch (1991)

27th Jun 07

Biopics are perhaps the suckiest genre in all of cinema. Interesting lives almost never translate to interesting cinema, and their main appeal is showing one famous person pretend to be another famous person, like a celebrity drag-show. So why is the hallucinatory biopic of cult author William Burroughs, NAKED LUNCH, so good?

Director David Cronenberg takes Burroughs’ life and runs it through the filter of Burroughs’ fiction.

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