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Naked Lunch (The Criterion Collection)

Peter Weller (Actor), Judy Davis (Actor), David Cronenberg (Director, Writer) Rated:

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Format	Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Contributor	Julian Sands, Peter Weller, Monique Mercure, Roy Scheider, Michael Zelniker, Yuval Daniel, Judy Davis, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren, David Cronenberg, Nicholas Campbell, Peter Boretski, William S. Burroughs, Ian Holm See more
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 55 minutes
Studio	The Criterion Collection

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 5.6 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2250576
Director ‏ : ‎ David Cronenberg
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 55 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 11, 2003
Actors ‏ : ‎ Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000CDUT5
Writers ‏ : ‎ David Cronenberg, William S. Burroughs
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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getdave

Possibly the strangest movie ever made.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2022

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I love strange movies, and this one takes the cake! A true classic, it has things like a typewriter that turns into a bug that talks out of its a**! It is phantasmagorical and allegorical at the same time. A must for literature students and anyone who has a taste for the strange and macabre.

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Steven Adam Renkovish

Very strange, but in a good way!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2006

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I just finished David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch. It was released in 1991, and is based on the William S. Burroughs novel of the same name. I've never read any of Burroughs' work, but now, I wouldn't mind researching it.

This film is about an exterminator named Bill Lee - who is played here by Peter Weller of RoboCop fame. Bill is an ex-junkie, and is thrown back into drug addiction once he finds out that his wife is addicted to the bug powder that he uses on the job. He tries it once, and becomes hooked. He starts hallucinating. Giant bugs start spouting conspiracy theories to him. A giant alien-like creature, a "mugwump", has a conversation with him at a bar. Sounds weird, huh? It only gets weirder from there on out. And I mean WEIRD. One night, he and his wife decide to play a random game of William Tell that goes horribly wrong, in that he accidentally shoots his wife in the head, and she dies. He flees the scene, and heads off to the "Interzone," an exotic city that may or may not exist inside of his head. He starts to write a novel, a novel that will eventually become the book Naked Lunch. While he is in the "Interzone," his hallucinations get worse. They become so surreal and weird, that it is hard to differentiate between what is real and what is not. I don't have time to explain it all - some of the hallucinations were so strange, that I can't print them for fear of offending someone - however, one thing is certain: this is definitely a film that requires a second viewing.

The character William Lee is loosely based on author William S. Burroughs. Burroughs really did shoot his wife during a game of William Tell, and this novel was written shortly after that incident. It may help to know that he was addicted to heroin at the time that he wrote it, which would explain all of the strangeness in the film.

I DO NOT recommend this to everyone. It is most definitely not a film for anyone under the age of 17, and contains some shocking material. However, if you are in the mood for something different - and I stress the word DIFFERENT, then you may want to check this out. You may not understand all that is going on the first time around, but the point of the film is to make you feel as though you are on drugs yourself. I still don't know what to think about it. It certainly does stay with you afterwards, and it is very thought provoking. David Cronenberg is one of the best directors out there. After all, he gave us last year's classic, A History Of Violence. If you are familiar with Cronenberg or David Lynch, and you've enjoyed their previous offerings to cinema, then you'll probably want to see this. You may want to follow this up with a similar, albeit less trippy film named Barton Fink, which was released the same year, and also stars Judy Davis in a supporting role.

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Alexander Russell

Weird, subtle horror movie inspired by William Burroughs

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 26, 2021

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Based on (but really inspired by) the William S. Burroughs book “Naked Lunch,” David Cronenberg crafted one of the weirdest, yet subtle, movies I’ve ever seen. Taking a lot of liberty with the book and infusing a lot of stuff from Burroughs’ own life, Naked Lunch the movie is equal parts off-beat, ugly, terrifying, depressing, intelligent, bewildering, calculated, chaotic. It’s been interpreted as a sort of paranoid fantasy about the struggles inherent in the creative process, but with how hallucinatory and surreal it is from the beginning, the film defies quick analysis.

Two stand-outs: Peter Weller of Robocop and Buckaroo Banzai gives a cold, gaunt, hypnotizing performance as Bill Lee, the fictional foil for the book’s author; the soundtrack is a great mix of bebop jazz and ominous noise and manages to both fit the time period (1940s-50s) and also double-down on the sense of dread that courses through the whole thing.

This is a Criterion release; Criterion DVDs never disappoint, everything is high quality from the picture and sound quality to the level of bonus features all the way down to packaging. Worth the price of admission especially if you enjoy William Burroughs, Cronenberg, or weird, slow burn horror.

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C McGhee

Non-rational thought

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 9, 2010

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This show was made from a book by a one of a kind author who lived a unique life & combined his life & his talent to create this story. William S. Burroughs' "Naked Lunch" was a novel many wanted to turn into a movie but it had to wait for F/X & a Director capable of filming its unreal expression of the Author's inner turmoil. David Cronenberg & modern film making combined to make it a unique & shining reality.

The cast is dynamite & do a tremendous job of portraying Mr. Burroughs characters. Peter Weller from Robocop as Bill Lee, Judy Davis as Joan Lee/Frost their wife, Ian Holm of Bilbo fame as Tom Frost, Julian Sands as Yves Cloquet & Roy Scheider as a Doctor of deception & others you'll know.

WARNING this show takes flight earlier & does not return. Get drinks first. A married exterminator & drug addict hooked on using his "bug powder" for intoxication as well as work begins his journey into psychosis on the train of hallucinations. His wife, then perceived as a problem, is easily removed at the direction of Bill's controller. It then becomes time to go undercover in a truly foreign country. Once there he will send out reports on enemy agents hiding in the same culture he is in. There are new customs, new friends, new enemies but still the same old Bill to try & deal with it all. That's this story line in a nutshell.

It gives you No Idea about what is visually contained in this movie. All of these scenes play out in an exquisitely detailed & totally outlandish manner thanks to the direction of David Cronenberg. He was truly the one director to handle the job of book story to finished film here. What he accomplished before doing this film was only training for the making of "Naked Lunch".

This movie is not ethereal & otherworldly the images are recognizable by anyone (I'm assuming you know what a typewriter is). Bill Lee our lead character is truly a stranger in his own strange land (pardon me Mr. Heinlein). To watch this show is to be in the middle of a psychotic mind visually. If you are a fan of the weird, the unusual, the bizarre & the unique you will love this. If you are a David Cronenberg fan this show is a non-stop Cronenberg fantasy you shouldn't miss.

This was worth the wait & a BIG thanks to all the people that backed off trying this because they knew it wasn't time to try yet. 5 BIG STARS!

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EerieVon

drugs is bad…

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2022

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finally upgraded my vhs copy to the criterion collection bluray… a total must have for all criterion collectors… this movie goes along well with Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas… love this movie because of that Kafka-esque feeling….

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N. M. Fletcher

Exterminate all rational thought.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 4, 2015

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Where on earth do you start with this? I think that you either ' get ' William S. Burroughs or you don't and luckily for me he couldn't do anything wrong.Whether writing, painting, acting,' singing ' or just talking this man was a true genius. Cronenberg's Naked Lunch is a mixture of Bill's cut-up novel, autobiography and the writing of the novel and to my mind is absolutely sublime. The Criterion bluray isn't perfect but it's much better than any other release currently on sale and I highly recommend it.
I was going to list all the details, extras etc. But www.Bluray.com does it far better than I, so leave me, go there, read and order this immediately!

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stighelmer

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 25, 2016

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Full recommendation!

Seb

Good

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 17, 2019

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Amazing sound, amazing picture, lots of neat special features and really liked the disc art sadly I did not enjoy the movie but a great film remaster nonetheless with nice extras

Gabriel

Masterpiece

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 11, 2019

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Great movie from a great director, hard to understand if you are not used to this style but it always was one of my favorite movies!

georges dainault

Weird

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 1, 2020

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Bon film, bonne date de livraison et bon matériel.

Merci beaucoup,

Georges Daignault

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