Sad christmas songs are a staple of the season and can be a nice break. Danny the car wiper, a desperate character who has just been released from jail on the upper west side of manhattan, searches for a fix on a cold christmas day. The junkys christmas is a claymation adaptation of william burroughs short story, read by burroughs himself and produced by francis ford coppola. If you have even the most passing knowledge of the life and work of william s. Burroughs takes down a book and reads us the story of danny the carwiper, who spends christmas day trying to score a fix, but finds the christmas spirit instead. It was later adapted into short claymation film and a spoken word version was performed through a collaboration between william s. A walk among the tombstones full movie streaming online in hd720p video quality. Outrage after piles of unused hurricane maria aid found in puerto rico warehouse nbc nightly news duration. The junkys christmas 1993 a short 21 minute animated film narrated by its author, william burroughs. And, as you can well imagine, its not your normal happy christmas flick.
Burroughs, nothing should seem more out of the ordinary than finding the author of surreal heroin tomes nodding pensively at the beginning of this 1993 francis ford coppolaproduced short film directed by nick donkin and melodie mcdaniel. The junkys christmas is a short story by william s. Discussion of all things related to the narcotics known as opiates, from harmreduction to pharmacology. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21 minute claymation christmas film. Every year, the bloomingtonbased arts organization known as the burroughs century toasts the season with a radiotheatre performance of the junkys christmas by william s. Eventually he finds the christmas spirit when he shares some morphine with a.
An electronic odyssey 1993 toonces, the cat who could drive a car 1992. Burroughs celebrity profile check out the latest william s. Part claymation and part live action, the junky s christmas, depicts a story by william s. Nope, this film the junkys christmas is all about danny the carwiper, a junkie, who spends christmas day trying to score a fix. Burroughs photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Directed and animated by nick donkin, flying gherkin. It originally appears in the 1989 collection interzone and on the 1993 album spare ass annie and other tales.
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