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Naked Lunch [Special Edition]

DVD/APPROX. 115 MINS./1991/US R

Main feature:

Release Nov 11, 2003
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs.
Audio English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1991
Genre Drama

Special features:

  • Disc One: The Movie
  • Audio Commentary featuring Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller
  • Production Stills Gallery
  • Excerpts from the Novel Naked Lunch read by Author William S. Burroughs
  • Disc Two: The Supplements
  • Naked Making Lunch, a London Weekend Television documentary about the making of the film, direted by Chris Rodley
  • Illustrated essay about the special effects in Naked Lunch by Jody Dunan, editor of Cinefex magazine, featuring artifacts from Cronenberg's archive
  • Film stills gallery
  • A collection of original marketing materials
  • William S. Burroughs' audio recording of excerpts from Naked Lunch
  • A collection of archival stills of William S. Burroughs from The Allen Ginsberg Trust
  • 32-page booklet featuring essays by film critic Janet Maslin, Chris Rodley, Gary Indiana, and a piece by William S. Burroughs

Synopsis:



Exterminate all rational thought.

Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs' hallucinatory, "unfilmable" novel is finally realized on-screen by director David Cronenberg. Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. The fruit of an unholy union between two masters of the hilarious and the macabre, Naked Lunch mingles aspects of Burroughs' novel with incidents from his own life, resulting in a compendium of paranoid fantasies and a searching investigation into the mysteries of the writing process.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Judy DavisIan HolmJulian SandsRoy ScheiderPeter Weller"Naked Lunch"
Written byDavid Cronenbergproduced byJeremy Thomas
directed byDavid Cronenberg
Production Year: 1991

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