The curious life of controversial avant-garde author and Beat poet William S. Burroughs serves as the subject of the documentary from Chicago-based filmmaker Yony Leyser, William S Burroughs: A Man Within. "Narrated by Peter Weller, who played a Burroughs-like character in David Cronenberg's movie Naked Lunch, A Man Within is embellished with scratchy line drawing that evokes Burroughs’s skeletal vision of humanity. There is not a word or image wasted in a documentary you wish ran an extra half-hour beyond its condensed 90 minutes. It is all either blood-chilling or hilarious. For those who celebrate Burroughs as one of the darkest and greatest of all comic artists, he is an extreme social satirist of Swiftian stature...[The film is] a kind of genealogy of hip that connects Burroughs." (NY Times)