Naked Lunch (The Criterion Collection) |  | Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider
Studio: Criterion
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Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.9 x 0.9
MPN: PMIDCC1599D
ISBN: 1559409479
UPC: 715515014922
EAN: 9781559409476
Release Date: November 11, 2003
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Product Description
David Cronenberg's creepy, darkly funny adaptation of the writings of William Burroughs focuses on the adventures of a drug-addicted exterminator/author (Peter Weller) who, after accidentally shooting his wife, journeys to a surrealistic Mediterranean country in hopes of unleashing his creative impulses. Judy Davis, Ian Holm and Roy Scheider co-star. 115 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English; audio commentary by Cronenberg, Weller; photo gallery; theatrical trailer; novel excerpts. Two-disc set.
You 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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