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Naked Lunch (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Horror |
Format | Blu-ray |
Contributor | Julian Sands, Judy Davis, Peter Weller, David Cronenberg, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 55 minutes |
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Product Description
In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs's hallucinatory, once-thought unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg (Videodrome), a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (Robocop's Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, a netherworld of sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. Alternately humorous and grotesque—and always surreal—the film mingles aspects of Burroughs's novel with incidents from the writer's own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self-reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.59 ounces
- Item model number : CRRN2253BR
- Director : David Cronenberg
- Media Format : Blu-ray
- Run time : 1 hour and 55 minutes
- Release date : April 9, 2013
- Actors : Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B00B2BYXSG
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #14,829 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #194 in Fantasy Blu-ray Discs
- #811 in Horror (Movies & TV)
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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!
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.
Criterion really packed this Blu-Ray with some great special features. They included marketing trailers, behind the scenes footage and interviews, slide shows of the extensive special effects and designs, an hours worth of Burroughs reading from Naked Lunch, commentary from Cronenberg and Peter Weller, and a fantastic making of feature. Pick this one up folks!
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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!