And why not? Photograph by Andrew Loxley for another great feature at Fantasticsmag.
Month: January 2010
Burroughs: The Movie
The author at home in his Bunker.
When I was writing last August about Yony Leyser’s new Burroughs documentary William S Burroughs: A Man Within I mentioned Howard Brookner’s 1983 film, Burroughs, a 90-minute study of the writer’s life and work that as a film biography remains definitive. Brookner was fortunate to capture all the surviving Beats (including Ginsberg and Gysin) and also family members like Burroughs’ son, William Jr. (who died shortly after filming), and his brother, Mortimer. If you’re interested in Burroughs and have never seen Brookner’s film it’s essential viewing, so it’s good news that Ubuweb has turned up a blurry copy (which they’ve titled Burroughs The Movie) taken from the BBC’s Arena screening shown after the writer’s death in 1997. As I recall, the beginning is slightly re-edited to make it an obituary piece but the rest of the film is complete.
Update: Ubuweb no longer hosts the film now that a reissue has been announced. The links have been removed here as a result.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The William Burroughs archive
Bradley does Beardsley
Browsing various bookbinding sites this week turned up a gorgeous cover design I hadn’t seen before by the great Will Bradley (1868–1962). The Beardsley influence is unmistakable, of course, and more pronounced than one usually sees in Bradley’s work. Richard Le Gallienne is a familiar name to scholars of the London fin de siècle scene although I can’t testify to the quality of this novel which was published in 1898, the year of Beardsley’s death. If you want to give it a go, the Internet Archive has the entire thing in its Bradley livery.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The book covers archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Peacocks
Maria Nilsdotter
Dragon Skull Ring.
Jewellery by Swedish designer Maria Nilsdotter. Looking at her blog posts I’d guess that her snake bangle is inspired by the serpentine ring and bracelet set designed by Alphonse Mucha and Georges Fouquet for Sarah Bernhardt.
Snake bangle (blackened silver).
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Divine Sarah
• Lalique’s dragonflies