Former junkie William Lee (Peter Weller, Robocop) makes ends meet as an exterminator. But when he and his wife Joan (Judy Davis, Barton Fink) discover the hallucinatory properties of the powder he uses to kill bugs, they become hooked, and their world is changed forever. Insects speak, typewriters mutate and talk, interdimensional beings reveal themselves, and identities fracture and blur; nothing and no one is quite what it seems. When Bill, under the influence of drugs, or the bugs that have begun talking to him, shoots his wife, he flees to Interzone, at once a place and a state of mind, where things only get stranger. Naked Making Lunch, archival making of documentary directed by Chris Rodley presented in a new scan from the director's personal 16mm print and viewable with a new audio interview with Rodley discussing his connection to Cronenberg and the process of making Naked Making Lunch Burroughs' writing might be properly classified as "unadaptable", at least insofar as novels are typically transformed into screenplays and then finished

Note: Screenshots are sourced from Arrow's standalone 1080 release of the film. Per Arrow's standard operation procedure, this 4K UHD levels from already excellent levels on Arrow's 1080 version. Dolby Vision and/or HDR have added some rather interesting highlights toward both Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. throughout in this version, and shadow detail in some of the dimly lit interior scenes can also show improvement. Grain is very nicely resolvedof teals, greens, browns and beiges, while also providing some suitably stomach churning fine detail in the bug material in particular. Kind of the warm and cool ends of the spectrum, though I'd say in general this 4K UHD presentation may have just a bit more of the inglorious end obviously based on an infamous event from Burroughs' own personal life. The second is Joan Frost, a lookalike writer who may hold Original lossless 2.0 stereo and 5.1 audio options
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In a career dedicated to seeing the unseeable and filming the unfilmable, perhaps only David Cronenberg could really do justice to William S. Burroughs' controversial novel, Naked Lunch. Weaving together elements of Burroughs' own remarkable biography with the content of the book, Cronenberg's film steps inside the body and mind of an author to depict the dangerous act of imagination itself from the inside out. Film Still and Sketch Gallery (HD) – A collection of production still from the onset photographer Attila Dory that feature some behind-the-scenes shots of the cast and crew at work filming 'Naked Lunch.' There are also a handful of fantastic sketches by art director James McAteer that show the levels of design that went into making the film. Another aspect of the film that impresses is the fact that it does not look kitschy. The direction, unique decors and costumes give it a modern retro look which is unlike anything else that has been accomplished before. This just goes to show that Cronenberg, who also wrote the script, was indeed the one and only director who could have effectively filmed Burroughs' ramblings.

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Commentary - this is the same audio commentary with director David Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller that initially appeared on Criteiron's DVD release of Naked Lunch. It was recorded in Toronto and Los Angeles in 2003. In the Interzone, Bill begins writing important reports - at least he is convinced that they are because it is never made clear why he is writing them. He also meets some older friends, one of whom tries to convince him that he is a homosexual. Another man (Julian Sands) he meets literally consumes his friend.

The main character (Peter Weller) in Naked Lunch is a failed writer turned bug exterminator who discovers that he is short on bug powder because his wife, Joan (Judy Davis), has started shooting up on it. Instead of trying to get her off the powder, Bill decides to experiment with it and see if it is as good as Joan claims. Soon after, his typewriter turns into a giant talking bug that urges him to head to the Interzone, a magical place where lost souls can rebuild their lives and roam free. Before he leaves, Bill accidentally shoots his wife in the head. Audio Recording of William S. Burroughs – This is a 1995 recording Burroughs did for an audiobook of 'Naked Lunch.'

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The film is anything but a straight adaptation of Burroughs’ source, eliding a loose autobiography of Burroughs’ life and specific passages from the book to create something incomprehensible but thematically full. Something that, I think, accurately captures Burroughs’ writing while being something completely of Cronenberg’s making. The horror maestro’s proclivity for stories about addiction and how that morphs both the person and the reality around them is on full display here, and the breathless production design and creature effects make for a fully realized vision. To write about Naked Lunch is to fail to summarize its strengths neatly, but believe me when I say that it still stands as one of Cronenberg’s most formally and narratively audacious works. And better yet, it still delivers on that confounding, transfixing feeling you get when reading Burroughs’ work.