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Naked Lunch
1991
David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs invite you to lunch. Read more
| Starring | Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider |
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| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Genres | Drama |
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Naked Lunch
David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs invite you to lunch.
| Starring | Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider |
|---|---|
| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 50 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 26 Jul 2004 Production year: 1991 |
| Format | DVD |
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Instead of the savagery and rampant homosexuality of the original, the film concerns the act of the book's creation, through the hallucinatory experiences of a writer, based on Burroughs, among the expatriate artistic community of Tangier. All that is car
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20 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Wow....the Bug Powder!
Where do I start?
Beautifully shot, weird, arthouse, slightly-camp drug/horror movie.
The anti-hero is a deadbeat American who works as a pest exterminator and becomes addicted to his own bug-powder!
Depending upon whether he is on or off the powder, he drifts in and out of "Interzone" which is his own weird drug-induced state.
Apparently based loosely on William S Burroughs own life, this movie is rather disturbing and completely unlike anything else you will ever have seen.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Abandon all rational thought....
Style, juxataposed with grime. I thought that Cronenberg's vision of William Burrough's Naked Lunch was far from vivid. Infact at places a thought it was a little slow.
The actors are very good, very morbid, which is what you expect from a book about junk addiction. Unfortunatly Benaway's character is made to seem likeable, and the absence of AJ (international playboy in the book) was a big let down. I also thought that interzone was far more calm and settled than Burroughs have ever written.
this film doesnt really deserve the title of Naked Lunch, because you can never quite tell what is on the end of your fork in this film, unlike the book. The mixture of blatent and crude metaphore sparks interest, and ecco's the original, but is far from complete.
Cronenberg is very effective as always at creating an organic set, at allows the cast and stage intergrate.
I like Cronenberg as a director, and i love W.B, but i was expecting so much more. -
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Roy Scheider 1932 - 2008
- 12 Feb 2008
"Film orange?!?" For most of us, Roy Scheider's contribution to mobile cinema culture in the popular Orange commercials a little while back was a reminder of an esteemed actor who had been away too long. The ad made reference to Scheider's two most famous films - The French Connection (his first Oscar nomination) and Jaws. Both were huge box office hits in the early 1970s, though neither quite propelled him into the A-list. He was also in Klute, Marathon Man and All That Jazz (his best... Read more
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