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Naked (The Criterion Collection) (1994)

David Thewlis , Lesley Sharp , Mike Leigh  |  Unrated |  DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner
  • Directors: Mike Leigh
  • Writers: Mike Leigh
  • Producers: Simon Channing Williams, Victor Glynn
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Criterion
  • DVD Release Date: September 20, 2005
  • Run Time: 131 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000A88EV4
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,662 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Naked (The Criterion Collection)" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Audio commentary by director Mike Leigh and actors David Thewlis and Katrin Cartlidge
  • Exclusive new video introduction by filmmaker Neil LaBute
  • The Conversation, a BBC program with author Will Self interviewing Leigh
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • New essay by film critic Derek Malcolm

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In between his breakthrough film (Life Is Sweet) and his world sensation (Secrets and Lies), filmmaker Mike Leigh created his most abrasive and daring film, Naked. This "Angry Young Man" for the 1990s follows an acidic wanderer (Cannes award winner David Thewlis) who observes a corrosive Britain. An intellectual, bitter film filtered with debauchery and black humor, Naked follows the bemusing Johnny as he crosses in and out of doorways, drifting into old acquaintances and new lost souls. It is more of a character film than sheer entertainment and thus it can be hard to watch, but it offers one of the great performances of the 1990s. Thewlis would have been an Oscar shoo-in if he'd worn a tuxedo and repressed his emotions. He didn't, and his brilliant work went unrecognized in mainstream America. --Doug Thomas

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One of the essential films of the 1990s, Mike Leigh's brilliant and controversial "Naked" stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming, eloquent, and relentlessly vicious drifter in London. Rejecting all those who would care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of the desperate and the dispossessed and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances by Thewlis and costars Katrin Cartlidge and Lesley Sharp, Leigh's panorama of England's crumbling underbelly is a showcase of black comedy and doomsday prophecy, and was the winner of the best director and actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.

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Full-fleshed humanity experiencing all that this life offers. Andrew (Adery@aol.com)  |  13 reviewers made a similar statement
To see an actor like Thewlis wasted in rubbish films like Dragonheart is ridiculous. william cutting  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
She is by far the least dominating character in the film. Jimmy Lee  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brutality And Brilliance--A Nasty "Naked" Treat October 7, 2006
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Having seen this movie upon its release in 1993, I remember seeing a tough, brutal little picture with a great leading performance by David Thewlis. I didn't actually remember liking it, however. Thirteen years later, I've had the pleasure of revisiting Mike Leigh's "Naked" in its Criterion issue. And being older and more savvy, I've discovered the film as if it were my first time viewing it. And what a lot of pleasures there are to be had in "Naked."

First, David Thewlis is brilliant! The ferocity of his performance captivated audiences around the world and won him Cannes and other acting honors, but no Oscar nomination. I would contend that if this movie were released now, with Mike Leigh and David Thewlis better known and respected, the outcome would have been much different. All the performers bring a realness to the film that make it so effective, but it is Thewlis's show.

Thewlis's Johnny is a despicable human being. He is rude, violent, petulant, unwashed, selfish, and totally at odds with anything even resembling humanity. He proceeds to make his way through London meeting up with various characters each more loathsome or desperate then the last. It is a bleak portrait, at best. Every woman, inexplicably, is drawn to Johnny. I mean--what a catch, huh? Some might label the film misogynistic, and it's treatment of women isn't glamorous--but I'd contend that the men are all ogres as well which helps balance things out.

So why is this movie great? Sounds like a nasty piece of work (and it is). But aside from the blistering performances, the film is scathingly and brutally funny. The impeccably literate script actually has something to say about the modern world, about philosophy, about the human condition. It's a tremendously smart black comedy. And Johnny becomes one of the most well-spoken and funny antiheroes in modern movie history. It's refreshing for a movie that is so brutal and tough to be so intelligent as well. And for all you despise about Johnny, there will be a grudging respect too. You understand why people are drawn to him.

I've thought about this film many times since I rewatched it last week, and now I've felt compelled to add my two cents here. Check it out. A nasty masterpiece. KGHarris, 10/06.
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54 of 65 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars "Are you with me?" September 23, 2005
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I first saw this in a little run-down art house theater. The auditorium was empty except for an old woman and two strange men who, lured by the title and the fishnet stockings on the original poster, had obviously come expecting a different kind of movie than the one they got. There were times during the screening when I almost felt as if the theater had become part of the movie.

This is a film that's fascinating, but, damn, it's a bit of a ride. I'm frequently catching it late at night, on IFC, and even just a few moments almost always wear me out -- definitely a movie that brings to your attention when you need to go to bed. I appreciate "Naked," as a filmic experience, and it is indeed an incredible one, but I have to wonder if this is what movies are supposed to do.

Still, it does what it does and what it does is unlike anything else you could want to find.

David Thewlis may have made a mistake starring in this because he is so brilliant, so engaging, so horrifying, so smart, so black that to this day, I still have a hard time seeing him as any other character -- whether he's in "Gangster #1" or "The Prisoner of Azkaban." It's great work. He'll make you laugh, he'll make you cry, he'll make you carsick.

I'd also like to nominate the scene between Johnny and the security guard -- their discussion of time, and space, and barcodes and apocalypse and Dadaist nuns -- to be elected to the office of the great scenes of the 90s, and to take a place on the larger list of the great cinematic moments altogether.
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35 of 42 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST AND MOST POWERFUL FILM OF THE 90s September 5, 2005
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Johnny is a homeless, angry young man who can speak at great length and with GREAT eloquence on an incredibly wide variety of topics. He is smarter than basically anyone he meets or ever will meet but he has no job, no place to live and has no interest in having either. He arrives in London and sets out on an odyssey through the night to spread his philosophy on life to anyone who will listen. Doesn't sound like much of a film huh? Make no mistake this is one of the best films EVER made and contains a performance that can match De Niro, Hoffman or Brando any day. David Thewlis won best actor at cannes for his genuinely incredible performance in this masterpiece, and it's easy to see why. The raw power that he brings to this role has to be seen to be believed. Some people expressed surprise at his lack of an academy award nomination. Let's be honest about it. The performances that stay with you after the credits roll are too good for oscars. Day-Lewis in Gangs Of New York,Samuel L. Jackson in Jungle Fever, Campbell Scott in Roger Dodger, Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire, Newman in Hud and most of all David Thewlis for this film. Ignore the hype about the violence in this film. Robert De Niro played a violent person in Raging Bull and what did he get? A golden globe AND the oscar. David Thewlis lost because he played this role with unblinking conviction. De Niro was sexually violent in CAPE FEAR and he was nominated at the academy awards. Thewlis and De Niro both took the method approach to these roles, so why did the academy overlook Thewlis? If this film didn't win the best actor and best director awards at Cannes I seriously think that it would be virtually unknown. Now that Thewlis and director Mike Leigh are back in the public eye. Thewlis in KINGDOM OF HEAVEN and Leigh with his harrowing VERA DRAKE, it is a perfect time for a new audience to discover NAKED and see it for what it is a masterpiece. Like always the best films are sadly unavailable on dvd. This film is one of those rare times when I'd even settle for an extras free disc. If it wasn't for criterion, modern masterpieces like Glengarry Glen Ross and NAKED would come out on dvd with nothing but a trailer. There are two reasons why NAKED didn't win the oscars for best actor,film or screenplay: money and politics. This film wasn't marketable or politically correct. To see an actor like Thewlis wasted in rubbish films like Dragonheart is ridiculous. You would think that an awards academy who gave Sean Penn an oscar for his performance in Mystic River where he played an ultimately vicious and violent character and Anthony Hopkins who played one of the most evil characters of recent memory in The Silence Of The Lambs would at least give THewlis a nomination. Thewlis gives one of the best performances in the history of cinema and regardless of what the academy thought of the film Thewlis has created a character that will never be forgotten. At the end of the day a film like NAKED can't be measured by the box office or the amount of awards that it wins but by it's impact on a visceral level.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars This movie is too much, baby!
Thewlis' character in this movie is just amazing. Not sure if Leigh is trying to speak for a generation with this one (GenX in Britain) or what, but the characters in this movie... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Eric Mc Clune
4.0 out of 5 stars A depressing, but otherwise brilliant film.
Naked is not a pleasant experience. There is much to enjoy about it, but the mood and plot are incredibly downbeat. That being said, there is a lot to appreciate here. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Phxsns1
3.0 out of 5 stars Honestly, it's not naked enough...
Mike Leigh is that type of director who seems to love his characters. He loves to allow the audience to come to know them from afar almost, building delicately as the actors flesh... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Andrew Ellington
5.0 out of 5 stars Undoubtedly a classic
This movie... I ordered it and watched it the same night I got it. I was a fan of David Thewlis before I watched this movie and now I am a DIE HARD FAN. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Haylee
4.0 out of 5 stars "Good" Rapist vs."Bad" Rapist
Mike Leigh is toying with sexual politics in this bleak film. I won't say that rape is "glorified" because it's often consensual encounters that suddenly become violent. Read more
Published 17 months ago by mr. critic
5.0 out of 5 stars A Portrait of the Misogynist as a Young Man
My first contact with Mike Leigh's film Naked came with a series of soundbites that DJ's at the University of Maryland's college radio station had sampled and turned into station... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Jeff in DC
5.0 out of 5 stars Brutality And Brilliance--A Nasty "Naked" Treat Turns Blu
Having seen this movie upon its release in 1993, I remember seeing a tough, brutal little picture with a great leading performance by David Thewlis. Read more
Published on April 22, 2011 by K. Harris
5.0 out of 5 stars No nihilism here
Yes, this film depicts brutal violence (especially towards women),emotional depravity and a procession of lost souls. Read more
Published on January 29, 2011 by Christopher S. Curdo
5.0 out of 5 stars Comparable to "Five Easy Pieces"...
...in its theme of drifter/womanizer, Naked however is altogether its own beast. At once intriguing and appalling, in addition to some pretty memorable and f***** up main... Read more
Published on March 11, 2010 by Green Manalishi
1.0 out of 5 stars I don't get it
Sorry, I don't get it. If you like depressing movies about pathetic, self-centered, losers who go through life inflicting pain on others and are unable to generate even a modicum... Read more
Published on January 29, 2010 by Eldon Doty
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