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Naked Lunch(Criterion Collection)(2 disc)

 

  Written and Directed by David Cronenberg

Canada-UK 1991 / Avant-Garde / Experimental / Surreal / Erotic / 115 min / Color / Dolby 2.0 / 1.78:1 Widescreen Anamorphic / NTSC /  In English  with Optional Thai and English Subtitles

Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville , Alison Garland, James Corden, Ruth Sheen, Marion Bailey.

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.

 
       

Bonus Features:

New high-definition digital transfer, approved by director David Cronenberg
Audio commentary by Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller
"Making Naked Lunch" a London Weekend TV documentary
Illustrated essay on the special effects
Film stills gallery
Examples of the marketing campaign, including a featurette, B-roll montage, TV spots, and theatrical trailer
Excerpts from the novel read by author William S. Burroughs
A collection of archival stills of author William S. Burroughs