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Drug-Taking and the Arts (1994)
Country
of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1994
Running Times:
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Producer: Jon Blair
SCRIPT
Script: David Galo
Extracts: Charles Baudelaire (On Wine and Hashish); Paul Bowles (Let
It Come Down); Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Aurora Leigh); William
S. Burroughs (The Naked Lunch); Jean Cocteau (Opium); Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (Kubla Khan; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner); Thomas De
Quincey (Confessions of an English Opium Eater); Philip K. Dick (A Scanner Darkly); Théophile Gautier (The Hashish Club);
Allen Ginsberg (Laughing Gas); Robert Graves (Between Moon and Moon);
Aldous Huxley (Moksha); Anna Kavan (Ice); Jack Kerouac (On The Road);
Ken Kesey (notebooks); Jay McInerney (Bright Lights, Big City); Gérard
de Nerval (Voyage to the Orient); Anaïs Nin (diary); Edgar Allan Poe
(letters); Arthur Rimbaud (Letters of the Visionary)
DIRECTION
Director: Storm Thorgerson
MUSIC
Music: David Gilmour
CAST
Bernard Hill (the presenter)
Phil Daniels (Thomas De Quincey)
Masculine Role (Edgar Allan Poe)
Masculine Role (Théophile Gautier)
Masculine Role (Charles Baudelaire)
Jon Finch (Gérard de Nerval)
Daniel Webb (Jean Cocteau)
Masculine Role (Robert Graves)
rest of cast listed alphabetically)
Brian Aldiss (himself)
J.G. Ballard (himself)
Dr Virginia Berridge (herself)
Paul Bowles (himself)
Todd Boyco (Andy Warhol)
Robin Buss (himself)
Carolyn Cassady (herself)
Prof. Ann Charters (herself)
Dr. E.M.R. Critchley (himself)
Margaret Crosland (herself)
Dr Tony Dickenson (himself)
Prof. Annette Dolphin (herself)
David Gascoyne (himself)
Allen Ginsberg (himself)
Ronald Hayman (himself)
Prof. John Hemmings (himself)
Bernard Howells (himself)
Francis Huxley (himself)
Laura Huxley (herself)
Dr Oscar Janiger (himself)
Marek Kohn (himself)
Prof. Malcolm Lader (himself)
Dr Timothy Leary (himself)
Grevel Lindop (himself)
George Melly (himself)
Prof. Eric Mottram (himself)
Paul O'Prey (himself)
Diana Quick (Anaïs Nin)
Dr Peggy Reynolds (herself)
John Richardson (himself)
Prof. Avital Ronell (herself)
June Rose (herself (author))
Hubert Selby Jnr (himself)
John Sessions (voices of William Burroughs / Ken Kesey)
Harry Shapiro (himself)
Jay Stevens (himself)
Robert Stone (himself)
Lawrence Sutin (himself)
Dr Ian Walker (himself)
LINKS
SEE ALSO
La belle et la bête (1946)
Blade Runner (1982)
Metropolis (1927)
Orphée (1949)
The Sheltering Sky (1990) KEYWORDS
books into film; cannabis; drugs; hallucinations;
hashish; literature; lsd; magic mushrooms; mescaline; opium; paintings;
peyote; poetry
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