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Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider

1994, Movie, NR, 57 mins

Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider: Review

This straightforward, if uninspired, documentary covers Paul Bowles's lengthy, multifaceted career as expatriate poet, novelist, and composer. A serviceable primer for the uninitiated, the film features a rare interview with the elusive author. Bowles's story is told through interviews with many of his contemporaries, including composer Ned Rorem and poets Allen Ginsberg and Charles Henri Ford. They relate how Bowles, as a teenage poet in the 1920s, ran away from his New Y... read more leave a comment