Naked Lunch Limited Edition Blu-ray

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Fans of this film are going to be well pleased in my estimation, with a transfer that offers really sumptuous suffusion and some nicely improved detail flushed red-orange appearance that the Criterion version has, and which Arrow's 1080 presentation tends not to emphasize quite as much. This is a

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.The transfer was supervised by Director of Photography Peter Suschitzky at Silver Salt Restoration, London, UK, and the restoration was approved by bugs (and, yes, that's a joke). In fact, the hallucinatory aspect of the film is itself overt, with any number of characters ingesting or injecting

Concept Art Gallery, a collection of drawings and maquettes for the creatures of Naked Lunch by Stephan Dupuis Interzone is a place between two worlds; it's the bridge connecting the everyday mundane where novels as American as football sell like hotcakes, to the place that breathes life into the discordant style of a man who puts on an unfortunate "William Tell" act with his wife. It's a place that filmmakers like David Cronenberg sometimes take their audience to tell a sordid, frequently repulsive tale that takes as much guts to recount as it does talent. In the case of 'Naked Lunch,' Cronenberg had plenty of both on display. supposedly extracurricular items which nonetheless had tethers to Burroughs' own real life. The result is one of the most hallucinatory films probably

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Special Effects Gallery - this gallery features a collection of artwork and photographs detailing the special effects by Chris Walas, Inc., for Naked Lunch. The images are accompanied by an essay by film writer Jody Duncan, which originally appeared in longer form in Cinefex magazine. All images are in 1080p. William S. Burroughs Reads Naked Lunch - an audio recording of William S. Burroughs reading from his novel Naked Lunch. The recording was produced in 1995 for an audiobook and features music by Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, and Eyvind Kang. (64 min, 1080p).

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 levels from already excellent levels on Arrow's 1080 version. Dolby Vision and/or HDR have added some rather interesting highlights toward both Lee is brought to incredible life by Peter ‘ Robocop’ Weller, looking impossibly young and photographed to look almost insect-like. Ably supported by the likes of Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, and Roy Scheider, each giving a performance that is equally as obtuse and confusing as the narrative, but being completely in keeping with the whole. Legendary cinematographer Peter Suschitzky lights the sets hot and claustrophobically to intensify the density of the material, while usual Cronenberg collaborator Howard Shore, along with Ornette Coleman, score the film with enigmatic and jazz filled music that in isolation might seem odd, but in context is magnificent. And writer/director Cronenberg himself injects the film with a sense of glee as he wilfully sets out to deliberately infuriate and confuse the viewer by keeping all the answers tantalisingly just out of reach, but superficially stringing enough together to keep a narrative thread running throughout, no matter how much it meanders along the way.

Naked Lunch: Other Editions

Naked Lunch received a now long ago Blu-ray release in Region A from Criterion, and those wanting more detailed information on an Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion.

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, 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. Burroughs' writing might be properly classified as "unadaptable", at least insofar as novels are typically transformed into screenplays and then finishedAnother 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. Occasionally, this can just be chalked up to the fact that Hollywood couldn't see the work attracting a large enough audience to justify the untold millions of dollars it would take to see said film come to fruition. Other times, it's simply because the work in question has been dubbed unfilmable, or the content too unlike what Hollywood normally puts out to rationalize the effort of making such an adaptation. Most recently, Ang Lee's Academy Award-winning adaptation of Yann Martel's 'Life of Pi' comes to mind with this notion of unfilmable books being brought to life, but there are countless others such as Bret Easton Ellis' 'American Psycho,' Vladamir Nabokov's 'Lolita' (which has been made twice, by the way) and Hunter S. Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' just to name a few. 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 The special features are superb. Along with a new visual essay by David Cairns which provides a perfect half-hour explanation for those seeking increased clarity about the film, there are interviews with most key creative crew members, which break down the film into manageable chunks by looking at the score, the effects, the cinematography etc. as separate entities which build up into a larger vision. The interviews range from fifteen minutes to an hour plus, including a full 60 minutes with Peter Weller. On top of this there are two audio commentaries, including one featuring Cronenberg. If you can’t get some kind of handle on Naked Lunch after all this, give up!