characters who waft through the story, including a kind of mad doctor played by Roy Scheider. There's a certain "reveal" (in both figurative and releases, hence the verbiage about HDR10 and Dolby Vision): Naked Lunch has been exclusively restored by Turbine in partnership with Arrow Films and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 Naked Making Lunch (HD; 54:40) is an archival documentary by Chris Rodley which is advertised as having been scanned from

Naked Making Lunch (SD, 49 min.) – This 1992 documentary from filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley delves into the making of 'Naked Lunch' with some impressive clips and interviews with David Cronenberg, and, impressively, William S. Burroughs, while also managing to include some of the cast and crew too. Peter Suschitzky on Naked Lunch, a new interview with the celebrated director of photography (HD 11:01) Commentary - this is the same audio commentary with director David Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller that initially appeared on Criteiron's DVD release of Naked Lunch. It was recorded in Toronto and Los Angeles in 2003. supposedly extracurricular items which nonetheless had tethers to Burroughs' own real life. The result is one of the most hallucinatory films probably

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Naked Making Lunch, archival making of documentary directed by Chris Rodley presented in a new scan from the director's personal 16mm print and viewable with a new audio interview with Rodley discussing his connection to Cronenberg and the process of making Naked Making Lunch Trailer (SD, 2 min.) – The original theatrical trailer for 'Naked Lunch' that features a voice-over pretending to be that of William S. Burroughs.

This is an impressive looking presentation from just about every angle, with a gorgeously suffused palette that emphasizes Cronenberg's repeated somewhat drab browns, ochres, yellows and beiges can pop a bit more exuberantly in this version. Detail levels are at least marginally improved In a career dedicated to seeing the unseeable and filming the unfilmable, perhaps only David Cronenberg could really do justice to William S. Burroughs’ controversial novel, Naked Lunch. Weaving together elements of Burroughs’ own remarkable biography with the content of the book, Cronenberg’s film steps inside the body and mind of an author to depict the dangerous act of imagination itself from the inside out. Featurette (SD, 7 min.) – This is more like the kind of featurette you would see today surrounding a major release. It's mostly a collection of interviews with the cast and crew while they were filming 'Naked Lunch.'Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion.

Burroughs is famous for being cantankerous about adaptations of his work, and he’s more than a bit justified in that exact feeling, though the man’s violent attitude certainly takes an artist of a certain demeanor to parse through all the terse wordplay. In comes Cronenberg, a calm and metronomic presence that seems at odds with Burroughs at first, but what’s always been there is a man that deeply understands our relationship with drugs, power, and money as in how they dictate our reality. Thus, we must revolt, in whatever way we can. Another aspect of the film that impresses is the fact that it does not look kitschy. The direction, unique decors and costumes give it a modern retro look which is unlike anything else that has been accomplished before. This just goes to show that Cronenberg, who also wrote the script, was indeed the one and only director who could have effectively filmed Burroughs' ramblings. review begins with a clear spoiler warning itself), but for anyone who has seen both films and may not have thought about it before, suddenly

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Naked Lunchfollows drug addict and exterminator William Lee (Peter Weller), a man who accidentally shoots and kills his wife, but that was after he hallucinated that a giant talking beetle was trying to conscript him to kill his wife for a mysterious corporation called Interzone Incorporated. Lee flees to Interzone, a constantly morphing city located somewhere in North Africa, and becomes involved in a mysterious plot orchestrated by Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider). Naturally, Bill has many drug episodes along the way, including one where his typewriter/beetle creature brutally murders another typewriter in gruesome, weird, and bloody detail.

In the Interzone, Bill begins writing important reports - at least he is convinced that they are because it is never made clear why he is writing them. He also meets some older friends, one of whom tries to convince him that he is a homosexual. Another man (Julian Sands) he meets literally consumes his friend.Fans of this film are going to be well pleased in my estimation, with a transfer that offers really sumptuous suffusion and some nicely improved detail Interzone is a place between two worlds; it's the bridge connecting the everyday mundane where novels as American as football sell like hotcakes, to the place that breathes life into the discordant style of a man who puts on an unfortunate "William Tell" act with his wife. It's a place that filmmakers like David Cronenberg sometimes take their audience to tell a sordid, frequently repulsive tale that takes as much guts to recount as it does talent. In the case of 'Naked Lunch,' Cronenberg had plenty of both on display. the following information on the restoration: Naked Lunch has been exclusively restored by Turbine in partnership with Arrow Films and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 Concept Art Gallery, a collection of drawings and maquettes for the creatures of Naked Lunch by Stephan Dupuis Naked Lunch is provocative, transgressive, and surreal – a feast for the senses, where nothing is true and everything is permitted.