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Kill Your Darlings
(2013) Directed by John Krokidas
Thursday - February 6 - 9:30 p.m.
For Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Columbia University is Mecca--a portal to art, intellect, culture, and freedom.
There he finds stuffy tradition clashing with daringly modern ideas--embodied by Lucien Carr. Lucien is an object of
fascination for shy, unsophisticated Allen, and soon he is drawn into Lucien's hard-drinking, reefer-smoking, jazz-
clubbing circle of friends, including William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac. They, and others, do their best
to subvert authority with reckless adventures, until a friend's obsession becomes deadly. This true story of friendship,
love, and murder, Kill Your Darlings recounts the pivotal year that changed Allen Ginsberg's life forever and provided the
spark for him to start his creative revolution. (2K DCP. 104 min. Rated R.)
Burroughs: The Movie
(1983)
Directed by Howard Brookner
Thursday - February 6 - 6:30 p.m.
Burroughs: The Movie explores one of the greatest American
writers and thinkers with an intimacy never before seen and
never repeated, featuring William S. Burroughs along with
many of his contemporaries including Allen Ginsberg, Brion
Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Hunke, Patti Smith, Terry
Southern, and Lauren Hutton. The film was directed by the
late Howard Brookner, begun in 1978 as Brookner's senior
thesis at NYU film school, before expanding into a feature
completed five years later in 1983. Sound was recorded by
Jim Jarmusch, and the film was shot by Tom DiCillo, fellow
NYU classmates, and close friends of Brookner's. (2K DCP.
90 min. Not Rated.)
Filmmaker Aaron Brookner, nephew of
Howard Brookner, is scheduled to be present.
Shorts Program
(1962-1982)
Directed by Antony Balch
Sunday - February 9 - 3:00 p.m.
As old friends, William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch
began their film careers together in 1963 with the silent,
surreal and very short film titled William Buys a Parrot. The
films to come would be born from Burroughs' unique writing
techniques. The program includes Towers Open Fire (1963),
The Cut-Ups (1967), William Buys a Parrot (1963), Bill and
Tony (1972), Ghosts at No. 9 (1982), and more! (16mm.
80 min. Not Rated.)