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Naked Lunch
1991
From director David Cronenberg [The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)] comes the film adaptation of William Burroughs’s modern literary masterpiece The Naked Lunch. The book was controversial and ground-breaking and banned for many years for its sensational content. A semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs’s inner journey, .. 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
From director David Cronenberg [The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)] comes the film adaptation of William Burroughs’s modern literary masterpiece The Naked Lunch. The book was controversial and ground-breaking and banned for many years for its sensational content. A semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs’s inner journey, this surreal fantasy pulls its audience into a world of spies, witches and mutating monsters
| Starring | Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider |
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| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Studio | ELEVATION SALES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 50 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 50 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 1991 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 08 Apr 2011 To Rent: DVD: 26 Jul 2004 |
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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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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 ... read more » - 314924
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The drug of film
Truly original. The film is based on a confused story line with the themes of drug addiction, society, sexuality and insanity. When interleaved the themes ... read more »
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Everything about this work of art is unique and real and captivating. Held together by the playing of Ornette Coleman and the dry wit of Burroughs, it weaves an... read more »
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It's Superb!
I loved this film. I've been meaning to see it for ages. Its typical Kronenburg with all of the sexual imagery and metaphor you would expect.
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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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Naked Lunch
From director David Cronenberg [The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)] comes the film adaptation of William Burroughs’s modern literary masterpiece The Naked Lunch. The book was controversial and ground-breaking and banned for many years for its sensational content. A semi-autobiographical ...
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