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William S. Burroughs: commissioner of sewers

Germany, 1986
film

Arguably Burroughs is the greatest talent to emerge from the “Beat” generation. In his novels, poetry, films and performance he has created an opp..

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Burroughs

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The Naked lunch

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The life and times of Allen Ginsberg

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The Final Academy Documents 1982

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr: a self portrait

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The Final academy documents 1962/63

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One way street: fragments for Walter Benjamin

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What Happened to Kerouac?

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Crumb

United States, 1994
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Basquiat

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Edward Burra

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Robert D. Fitzgerald

Australia, 1983
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