Naked Lunch - Criterion Collection
by David Cronenberg
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Actor: Ian Holm, Judy Davis, Julian Sands, Peter Weller, Roy ScheiderDirector: David Cronenberg
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky
Writer: David Cronenberg
Editor: Ronald Sanders
Producer: Gabriella Martinelli
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Writer: William S. Burroughs
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Criterion
DVD Reviews of Naked Lunch - Criterion Collection
DVD Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
A really great movie. Just make sure you pay very close attention and follow the movie carefully. DVD Review: Creepy Goodness
Summary: 5 Stars
Probably my runner up behind Kurosawa. Cronenberg's work is amazing. The tangibility of them is what hit's home for me. The schitzophrenic undertones don't hurt either.DVD Review: Too (odd)vante-garde for me
Summary: 3 Stars
Conspiring monster bugs. . .ejaculating typewriters. . .inter-zone intrigue. . .
As a statement on addiction--interesting.
As a statement on writing--interesting.
As entertainment--duh?
Well-acted, well-made, but just, at times, so flat-out weird that it makes it, well--not enjoyable.
DVD Review: One of the best movies ever!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're not a fan of the absurd, surreal, or bizarre, you will not like this. But if you are, Cronenberg created a genre defining film with "Naked Lunch." It is every bit as Bohemian as Borroughs intended, and every bit as nightmarish, as you expext from Cronenberg. In this story, the main character's art and addictions manifest physically and begin to control him in ways he couldn't imagine.... Excellent!
FYI- If you read the commentary by William S. Borroughs, included in the insert, it will make you appreciate Cronenberg's vision 10 fold!
DVD Review: Dark, Disturbing, and worth watching
Summary: 5 Stars
This has been a long time favorite movie of mine. Based on the equally strange book written by William S. Burroughs, this movie will make you feel as though you are hallucinating. The plot centers around drugs and homosexuality, so if these things offend you, you probably won't enjoy it much. I think the two most disturbing parts of the movie, for me, were Kiki dying, and the arabic typewriter sex scene. Very strange stuff. Highly recommended to people looking for an intelligent, mind bending movie. This one is a modern classic.
Description of Naked Lunch - Criterion Collection
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 11/11/2003 Run time: 115 minutesYou are now entering Interzone, William S. Burroughs's phantasmagorical land of junk, paranoia, and crawly things. Best travel advice: "Exterminate all rational thought." In David Cronenberg's superbly shot, unnerving warp on the Burroughs novel, the novelist himself becomes a main character (played in an implacable monotone by Peter Weller), with elements from Burroughs' life--including the shooting of his wife during a "William Tell" game, and bohemian friends Kerouac and Ginsberg--added to frame the book's wild visions. This is, ironically, a somewhat rational approach to an unfilmable book (and it makes a hair-curling double bill with Barton Fink, another look at writerly madness, with both films sharing Judy Davis). Cronenberg is a natural for oozing mugwumps and typewriters that turn into giant bugs, of course. But in the end, this is really his own vision of the artistic process, rather than Burroughs's hallucinatory descent into hell. --Robert Horton
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