Production Companies Film Trustees Ltd., Naked Lunch Productions, Nippon Film Development and Finance, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), The Ontario Film Development Corporation, Téléfilm Canada
Release Date: Nov 11, 2003 Region: 1 Runtime: 115 mins Studio: Criterion Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround
Video:
Widescreen 1.78:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Subtitles: English Packaging: Keep Case Rating: R Features:
Disc One: The Movie Audio Commentary featuring Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller Production Stills Gallery Excerpts from the Novel Naked Lunch read by Author William S. Burroughs Disc Two: The SupplementsNaked Making Lunch, a London Weekend Television documentary about the making of the film, direted by Chris Rodley Illustrated essay about the special effects in Naked Lunch by Jody Dunan, editor of Cinefex magazine, featuring artifacts from Cronenberg's archive Film stills gallery A collection of original marketing materials William S. Burroughs' audio recording of excerpts from Naked Lunch A collection of archival stills of William S. Burroughs from The Allen Ginsberg Trust 32-page booklet featuring essays by film critic Janet Maslin, Chris Rodley, Gary Indiana, and a piece by William S. Burroughs
You are now entering Interzone, William S Burroughs' phantasmagorical land of junk, paranoia and crawly things. Best travel advice: "Exterminate all rational thought". In David Cronenberg's superbly shot, unnerving warp on the Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch, the novelist himself becomes a main character (played in an implacable monotone by Peter Weller), with elements from Burroughs' life--including the shooting of his wife during a "William Tell" game, and bohemian friends Kerouac and Ginsberg--added to frame the book's wild visions. This is, ironically, a somewhat rational approach to an unfilmable book (and it makes a hair-curling double bill with Barton Fink, another look at writerly madness, with both films sharing Judy Davis). Cronenberg is a natural for oozing mugwumps and typewriters that turn into giant bugs, of course. But in the end, this is really his own vision of the artistic process, rather than Burroughs' hallucinatory descent into hell. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com
Release Date: Jul 26, 2004 Features:
Director Commentary Paul Weller Commentary Indepth Documentary Still Gallery Trailers
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