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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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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
A trip
Naked Lunch is a famously unfilmable novel, so Cronenberg skillfully makes his film a combination of elements of the novel, and fictionalised elements of Burroughs writing of the novel. Some typically offbeat Cronenberg-style body horror, with typewriters growing talking orifices and leaking organs but, as with the novel, there's no real solid narrative hook to interest the viewer, so it's ultimately a less satisying film than Cronenberg's similar XistenZ for example. Basically a 2 hour drug hallucination on film, Naked Lunch has some fantastically bizarre moments for fans of cult films, but is ultimately rather shallow and uninvolving.
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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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