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Synopsis: Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated. The film charts the development of Burroughs' unique literary style and his wildly unconventional life, including his travels from the American Midwest to North Africa and several personal tragedies. Burroughs: The Movie is the first and only feature length documentary to be made with and about Burroughs. The film was directed by the late Howard Brookner. It was begun in 1978 as Brookner's senior thesis at NYU film school and then expanded into a feature which was completed 5 years later in 1983. Sound was recorded by Jim Jarmusch and the film was shot by Tom DiCillo, fellow NYU classmates and both very close friends of Brookner's.
 
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1983
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As I reach out to touch the flowers...

they wither under my hands.

I wonder whatever happened

to Otto's boy...

who played the violin.

You had -

Otto was your gardener here even?

Yes, and he went with us

to Price Road.

I see. Did you know him a lot

when you were a little kid?

- Oh, yes.

- Older man, a black man.

All the time I was out talking

to him because, um...

you know, he was gardening there

and I was out looking at the flowers...

and I had my pet toad.

When I would be working...

he - he would come out and help me.

You know, he was - he was like this.

- But he would come out and -

- That's true, yeah.

try to help me, you know,

to have my work done.

And I had a boy...

and-and I-I got all

their clothes to clothe him.

- How old is your son?

- Oh, he's dead now.

- He is -

- He died in '52.

He has been dead a long time.

He played the violin, I remember.

That's - That's right.

He can remember.

- He-He played -

- His name was Harold.

- Harold! He remembers.

Yes, his name was Harold.

As I recall in, uh, 1958, '59...

I wrote - when I was writing

Naked Lunch, I wrote a line:

"I wonder whatever happened

to Otto's boy who played the violin."

Well, I had a sort of a premonition

at that point that he was dead...

and I asked about it

in my next letter to Otto...

and he told me that, uh...

Harold had died in 1952,

St. Luke's Hospital.

He did not say from what cause.

Now we had

an old Irish crone living here...

working here for a while...

who taught me

how to call the toads.

And I could come out here

and call a toad.

There was a toad who lived

under a rock right by the pool...

and he'd come hopping out

right to my feet.

- Familiar.

- How was this toad called?

- I don't remember.

It was a little sound.

You could hardly hear it,

sort of a hum.

You'd sort of move around...

and then you'd zero in.

Now you've got the toad.

- There he is, and out he comes.

A lost art,

calling - calling the toads.

Yeah.

This porch was here.

Now one of the pictures

that we have...

of me and my brother together

in Western clothes...

was taken on that porch.

I'm sure that's Dad.

- Yeah.

- It looks just like him.

Well, I don't know who this is.

Do you know who this is?

Any idea?

It says "Mortimer Perry Burroughs."

So maybe it's Dad

when he was young.

Uh, yes, I think it probably is.

Weird.

The whole family story

of my father's side,

it gets very, very shady.

What kind of man was your father?

He was very mysterious, very reticent.

The only thing he told me was...

that he was beaten

if he ever went into his father's study...

or disturbed his father

while he was working.

That he had very little time

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