William S. Burroughs’ Scathing “Thanksgiving Prayer,” Shot by Gus Van Sant

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“Thanks­giv­ing Day, Nov. 28, 1986” first appeared in print in Tor­na­do Alley, a chap­guide pub­lished by William S. Bur­roughs in 1989. Two years lat­er, Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunt­ing, My Personal Pri­vate Ida­ho, Milk) shot a mon­tage that introduced the poem to movie, mak­ing it at the least the sec­ond time the direc­tor adapt­ed the beat author to…

Martin Scorsese Performs Vincent Van Gogh in a Quick, Surreal Movie by Akira Kurosawa

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The thought of the auteur direc­tor has been a con­tro­ver­sial one at occasions giv­en the sheer num­ber of peo­ple required at each stage to professional­duce a movie. Nevertheless it hangs togeth­er for me whenever you have a look at the movies of say, Mar­tin Scors­ese or Aki­ra Kuro­sawa, each direc­tors with very dis­tinc­tive visu­al lan­guages…