Naked Lunch (Criterion Collection)
Exterminate all rational thought.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 25, 2017
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Judy Davis & Peter Weller | |
Performer: | Roy Scheider & Julian Sands | |
Directed by | David Cronenberg | |
Edited by | Ronald Sanders | |
Music by | Thelonious Monk & Ornette Coleman | |
Screenwriting by | David Cronenberg | |
Composition by | Howard Shore | |
Produced by | Jeremy Thomas | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Suschitzky |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[NAKED LUNCH's] dope-drenched, bug-house atmosphere, with the dream-like narrative spliced into glittery shards, is tailor-made for a director as attuned to the gloppiness of interior states as Cronenberg...
Los Angeles Times
NAKED LUNCH plunges Peter Weller and Judy Davis into a beatnik junkie netherworld....Cronenberg's most ambitious work to date.
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Rating: A --
...very nearly accomplishes the book's goal of "extinguishing all rational thought."
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: C+ --
There are no great scenes, just flat moments of weirdness with lots of schlorping noises.
Reno Gazette-Journal
Obviously this is not everybody's cup of weird tea: you must have a taste for the esthetics of disgust. For those up to the dare, it's one clammily compelling movie.
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Newsweek
Rating: 3/4 --
A challenge if you're expecting a forward-moving plot but there's also more than enough pitch-black humor and straight-faced madness to lighten the mood, especially since Burroughs' strange lingo and vicious knack for language are intact.
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Scene-Stealers.com
...A remarkable meeting of the minds....Hideously clever...
New York Times
Product Description:
The dry wit of writer William S. Burroughs transfers surprisingly well to the screen. This partially biographical celluloid interpretation of his book shows Burroughs's daring and delirium as one of the experimental beat writers (with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg) who emerged in the late 1950s. In the lead role, Peter Weller does a dead-on Burroughs impression, and the film follows a bizarre logic and has a dark, rich look that makes it one of director David Cronenberg's more satisfying works. Bill Lee (Weller) is a pest-control man who would rather be a writer, and he is seeking escape from his troubled existence. After killing his wife, he flees to Interzone, a hallucinatory version of Tangiers (the location where Burroughs penned the book). There he finds that reality and fantasy have merged in a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by half-alien, half-insect creatures and odd humans. And finally, in this altered state, Lee can become a writer. Like other Cronenberg films, NAKED LUNCH is a bit squishy; it is full of pervasive biological dread. And this film is not exactly faithful to the novel. Instead, Cronenberg provides it with a neat framework that begins and ends with Lee shooting his wife Joan (Judy Davis) during a botched William Tell routine, just as Burroughs did in real life.
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- Sales Rank: 53,290
- UPC: 715515197311
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