Naked Lunch Limited Edition Blu-ray

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Naked Making Lunch, archival making-of documentary directed by Chris Rodley presented in a scan from the director’s personal 16mm print and viewable with an audio interview with Rodley discussing his connection to Cronenberg and the process of making Naked Making Lunch

the key to any number of questions Bill has as to what exactly is real and what is not. There are a number of at times patently gonzo sidebar

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Naked Making Lunch - a 1992 documentary focusing on the production history of Naked Lunch by Chris Rodley. The documentary features clips from interviews with David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs, actors Judy Davis (Joan Frost/Joan Lee) and Peter Weller (Bill Lee), producer Jeremy Thomas, and special effects supervisor Jim Isaac, amongst others. In English, not subtitled. (49 min, 1080i). 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.

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

Cronenberg’s adaptation of Burroughs’ novel, Naked Lunch, was criminally undervalued by the studio resulting in a box-office bomb when it was released, however, it has garnered a cult following because of its unusual subject matter, weird structure, incoherence, score, performances and overall inscrutability. As a film it is actually quite difficult to like, per se, but there is no denying the raw power and verve with which it weaves its narrative; perhaps one to endure rather than enjoy. inglorious end obviously based on an infamous event from Burroughs' own personal life. The second is Joan Frost, a lookalike writer who may hold