In anticipation of the newly restored Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars — unseen for nearly 40 years and completed by director Howard Brookner's nephew Aaron — Burroughs: The Movie is the first of only two documentaries Brookner made before his death in 1989 at age 34. Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner’s 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director’s nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheade
