Incredibly engaging documentary about the writer’s writer, composer, traveler, expatriate, existentialist, kif connoisseur, husband to Jane Bowles, translator of Jean-Paul Satre, and friend of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, W.H. Auden, and Gertrude Stein. First Run Features is releasing the DVD on July 24.
Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider. Catherine Warnow and Regina Weinrich, 1994. ****
- Paul Bowles – Wikipedia
- Jane Bowles – Wikipedia
- The Authorized Paul Bowles Website
- The International Paul Bowles Society
- On YouTube, John Malkovich and Debra Winger have sex in the desert in a key scene from Bertolucci’s adaptation of The Sheltering Sky. In Italian.
Don’t forget Ian Holm as telepathic Bowles in Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch!