Naked Lunch (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection) R
Exterminate all rational thought.
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 9, 2013
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Weller & Judy Davis | |
Performer: | Ian Holm, Julian Sands & Roy Scheider | |
Directed by | David Cronenberg | |
Edited by | Ronald Sanders | |
Music by | Ornette Coleman & Thelonious Monk | |
Screenwriting by | David Cronenberg | |
Composition by | Howard Shore & Ornette Coleman | |
Produced by | Jeremy Thomas | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Suschitzky |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C+ --
There are no great scenes, just flat moments of weirdness with lots of schlorping noises.
Reno Gazette-Journal
NAKED LUNCH plunges Peter Weller and Judy Davis into a beatnik junkie netherworld....Cronenberg's most ambitious work to date.
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...Weller gives a performance as evocative as it is depressing...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
While I admired it in an abstract way, I felt repelled by the material on a visceral level. There is so much dryness, death and despair here, in a life spinning itself out with no joy.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Obviously this is not everybody's cup of weird tea: you must have a taste for the esthetics of disgust. For those up to the dare, it's one clammily compelling movie.
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Newsweek
[T]his imaginative tour de force is a smarter, wittier film about the writing process than ADAPTATION.
Film Comment
Rating: B+ --
Stands on its own apart from the book.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
The dry wit of writer William S. Burroughs transfers surprisingly well to the screen. This partially biographical celluloid interpretation of his book shows Burroughs's daring and delirium as one of the experimental beat writers (with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg) who emerged in the late 1950s. In the lead role, Peter Weller does a dead-on Burroughs impression, and the film follows a bizarre logic and has a dark, rich look that makes it one of director David Cronenberg's more satisfying works. Bill Lee (Weller) is a pest-control man who would rather be a writer, and he is seeking escape from his troubled existence. After killing his wife, he flees to Interzone, a hallucinatory version of Tangiers (the location where Burroughs penned the book). There he finds that reality and fantasy have merged in a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by half-alien, half-insect creatures and odd humans. And finally, in this altered state, Lee can become a writer. Like other Cronenberg films, NAKED LUNCH is a bit squishy; it is full of pervasive biological dread. And this film is not exactly faithful to the novel. Instead, Cronenberg provides it with a neat framework that begins and ends with Lee shooting his wife Joan (Judy Davis) during a botched William Tell routine, just as Burroughs did in real life.
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