Naked Lunch
In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought-unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (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.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital transfer, approved by director David Cronenberg
- Audio commentary featuring Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller
- Naked Making Lunch, a 1992 documentary by Chris Rodley about the making of the film
- Special effects gallery, featuring artwork and photos alongside an essay by film writer Jody Duncan
- Collection of original marketing materials
- Audio recording of William S. Burroughs reading from his novel Naked Lunch
- Gallery of photos taken by poet Allen Ginsberg of Burroughs
- Film stills gallery
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Janet Maslin
Cover by Neil Kellerhouse
DIRECTOR-APPROVED TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital transfer, approved by director David Cronenberg
- Audio commentary featuring Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller
- Naked Making Lunch, a 1992 documentary by Chris Rodley about the making of the film
- Special effects gallery, featuring artwork and photos alongside an essay by film writer Jody Duncan
- Collection of original marketing materials
- Audio recording of William S. Burroughs reading from his novel Naked Lunch
- Gallery of photos taken by poet Allen Ginsberg of Burroughs
- Film stills gallery
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Janet Maslin
Cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Cast
- Peter Weller
- Bill Lee
- Judy Davis
- Joan Lee/Joan Frost
- Ian Holm
- Tom Frost
- Julian Sands
- Yves Cloquet
- Roy R. Scheider
- Dr. Benway
- Monique Mercure
- Fadela
- Nicholas Campbell
- Hank
- Michael Zelniker
- Martin
- Robert A. Silverman
- Hans
- Joseph Scorsiani
- Kiki
Credits
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Written by
- David Cronenberg
- Produced by
- Jeremy Thomas
- Based on the book by
- William S. Burroughs
- Coproducer
- Gabriella Martinelli
- Director of photography
- Peter Suschitzky
- Production designer
- Carol Spier
- Music
- Howard Shore
- Edited by
- Ronald Sanders
- Costume designer
- Denise Cronenberg
- Casting by
- Deirdre Bowen
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