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Antony Balch (10 September 1937 – 6 April 1980) was an English film director and distributor, best known for his screen collaborations with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs in the 1960s and for the 1970s horror film, Horror Hospital.
A legendary figure in British film distribution of the 1960s and 1970s, Antony Balch was renowned for buying up European art/exploitation films and giving them catchy new English titles ("Weird Weirdo", "Don't Deliver Us From Evil"), as well as being responsible for the legendary sound version of Benjamin Christensen's silent documentary ...
Feb 24, 2011 · Antony Balch - The Cut-Ups. morrinn. 83 subscribers. Subscribed. 299. 21K views 13 years ago. 1966, UK, 18' 45", Black & White Cinematography: Antony Balch Screenplay: William S. Burroughs...
Antony Balch (1937-1980) was a British film director and distributor, best known for his screen collaborations with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs in the 1960s and the 1970s horror film, Horror Hospital.
Jan 12, 2010 · William Burroughs met filmmaker Antony Balch in 1962 at the Beat Hotel. Balch made the very Grade-B movies that Burroughs felt create a space between, which provided a modicum of Lebensraum in a Puritan society. Today, Balch is best known for his film collaborations with Burroughs, like Towers Open Fire or William Buys a Parrot.
Film still from Antony Balch's Towers Open Fire, 1963. “Towers Open Fire is a straight-forward attempt to find a cinematic equivalent for William Burroughs’ writing: a collage of all the key themes and situations in the books, accompanied by a Burroughs soundtrack narration.
Critic Tony Raynes remembered a ‘lively, interesting, engaged, vigorous’ man who ‘threw a hell of a party’. An extraordinary figure of 1960s-70s British film, Antony Balch was a true original. His love of cinema was infectious and he worked across nearly all the different areas of the business.
May 22, 2014 · The 1966 short The Cut-Ups is probably Burrough’s best-known foray into experimental film, which he made with filmmaker and renowned smut/horror distributor Antony Balch.
We were screening the very print that film director, distributor and cinema manager Antony Balch had circulated from his Piccadilly flat in 1973. The print was a direct link back to Balch’s tussles with the censors, his independence, his refusal to be categorized and his taste for salacious, playful films.
Mar 8, 2014 · Looking back on his legendary “cut-up” work (with particular reference to his film collaboration(s) with Antony Balch).
