Naked Lunch ( Special Edition ) (Criterion Collection) (US Version) DVD Region 1

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.

"...A pungently comic and inventive spellbinder....A burst of imagination that is literally out of this world..." - Peter, Travers (Rolling Stone Critic), Rolling Stone, 02/06/1992

"...A remarkable meeting of the minds....Hideously clever..." - Janet, Maslin (New York Times Critic), New York Times, 12/27/1991

"...[NAKED LUNCH's] dope-drenched, bug-house atmosphere, with the dream-like narrative spliced into glittery shards, is tailor-made for a director as attuned to the gloppiness of interior states as Cronenberg..." - Peter, Rainer (Los Angeles Times Critic), Los Angeles Times, 12/27/1991

"...Weller gives a performance as evocative as it is depressing..." - Roger, Ebert (Critic and screenwriter), Chicago Sun-Times, 01/10/1992

"...A burnished noir, its eye-popping colors suggesting a graphic novel come to life..." - Mike, Flaherty (Entertainment Weekly Critic), Entertainment Weekly, 11/21/2003

"[T]his imaginative tour de force is a smarter, wittier film about the writing process than ADAPTATION." - Nathan, Lee , Film Comment, 01/01/2004

"NAKED LUNCH plunges Peter Weller and Judy Davis into a beatnik junkie netherworld....Cronenberg's most ambitious work to date." - Stephen, Dalton (Uncut Critic), Uncut, 09/01/2004

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Artist Name(s):	Julian Sands (Actor) | Roy Scheider (Actor) | Judy Davis (Actor) | Peter Weller (Actor) | Carol Spier | Ted Tally 朱里安山迪斯 (Actor) | 萊史德 (Actor) | Judy Davis (Actor) | Peter Weller (Actor) | Carol Spier | Ted Tally 朱里安山迪斯 (Actor) | 莱史德 (Actor) | Judy Davis (Actor) | Peter Weller (Actor) | Carol Spier | Ted Tally ジュリアン・サンズ (Actor) | ロイ・シャイダー (Actor) | Judy Davis (Actor) | ピーター・ウェラー (Actor) | Ｃａｒｏｌ Ｓｐｉｅｒ | Ｔｅｄ Ｔａｌｌｙ Julian Sands (Actor) | Roy Scheider (Actor) | Judy Davis (Actor) | Peter Weller (Actor) | Carol Spier | Ted Tally
Director:	David Cronenberg 大衛哥連堡 大卫哥连堡 Ｄａｖｉｄ デヴィッド・クローネンバーグ David Cronenberg
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Release Date:	2003-11-11
UPC Code:	715515014922
Language:	English
Country of Origin:	United States
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	R (MPAA)
Publisher:	Criterion Collection
Package Weight:	235 (g)
Shipment Unit:	2 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004389386

Director: David Cronenberg

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. David Cronenberg - Director, Peter Weller - Star
Featurette
B-Roll Montage
TV Spots
Theatrical Trailer
Text/Image Galleries:
Special Effects Stills Gallery
Production Stills Gallery
Excerpts From the Novel Read By William S. Burroughs