Naked Lunch Limited Edition Blu-ray

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somewhat drab browns, ochres, yellows and beiges can pop a bit more exuberantly in this version. Detail levels are at least marginally improved 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

Trailer (SD, 2 min.) – The original theatrical trailer for 'Naked Lunch' that features a voice-over pretending to be that of William S. Burroughs. Hollywood has always had a relationship with novels and novelists that is spotty at best. Sometimes the results are a travesty, and other times the work becomes a wonderfully realized adaptation – there are probably hundreds of examples of books being translated into films that have gone on to great success, either through critical acclaim (just how many Academy Award-winners can trace their origins to a novel or short story?), or by raking in billions of dollars and becoming the envy (or bane) of studio bean-counters. 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. 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.Naked Making Lunch (SD, 49 min.) – This 1992 documentary from filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley delves into the making of 'Naked Lunch' with some impressive clips and interviews with David Cronenberg, and, impressively, William S. Burroughs, while also managing to include some of the cast and crew too. Now, for all of those creature effects, they’ve all served the test of time and only gain impact when exposed to 2160p. The practical craft is enhanced by the Dolby Vision HDR layer, plus the warm and cool color tones used throughout look better altogether when compared to previous releases. While this may not be the kind of night-and-day upgrade that people seem to clamor for with 4K, I found it to be the absolute best rendering I’ve seen of the film yet. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. review begins with a clear spoiler warning itself), but for anyone who has seen both films and may not have thought about it before, suddenly While exploring the darker corners of the Interzone, Bill comes to appreciate its entirety. He does not always understand what he sees or hears, but the atmosphere and the rhythm of life makes him feel good. Only occasionally he gets lost and wakes up with his heart racing in strange places that look a lot like junkyards.

The transfer was supervised by Director of Photography Peter Suschitzky at Silver Salt Restoration, London, UK, and the restoration was approved by Trailer - the original theatrical trailer for Naked Lunch created by 20th Century Fox. David Cronenberg once described it as "audacious and intelligent". In English, not subtitled. (2 min, 1080i). If this synopsis makes Naked Lunch sound incomprehensible, it’s actually a much more coherent summary than the film really justifies. But, while it can be enjoyed on a visceral aesthetic level, Naked Lunch reveals itself to be a very clever piece of filmmaking once you dive into the structure that Cronenberg has managed to impose on a book long thought unfilmable. Taking real elements of Burroughs’ life and portions of his other novels as inspiration, Cronenberg’s screenplay is more like a mangled, fictionalised biopic shot through a hallucinatory lens and suggesting the sort of paranoid, frazzled mindset that could’ve created its beguilingly baffling namesake. It is a companion piece more than it is an adaptation, and a Cronenberg film at least as much as a Burroughs one. It is a searing examination of struggles with sexuality in an intolerant world, in which potentially problematic tropes like the predatory homosexual require the correct light to be shone on them to reveal the true context and meaning. While such ambiguity may seem problematic in itself, it’s difficult to imagine how Cronenberg could’ve more accurately depicted the real life complexity of the self-disgust several of the Beats reportedly felt about their own sexuality. This strand of the narrative is perhaps the most indicative of how the context and insight provided by Arrow’s new edition of Naked Lunch is so crucial to getting the most out of a movie that could otherwise seem potentially dangerous (even, difficult though it is to admit for the dedicatedly woke, invigoratingly so). 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 Lunch is presented in 4K UHD of Arrow Video with a 2160p transfer in 1.85:1. Arrow's insert bookletWinner of Best Picture, Best Direction, and Best Screenplay at the 1992 Genie Awards and winner of the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director, the film also features a superb supporting cast including Roy Scheider (Jaws) and an astonishing score by Howard Shore (The Fly), featuring Ornette Coleman. Naked Lunch is provocative, transgressive, and surreal – a feast for the senses, where nothing is true and everything is permitted. restoration from the original camera negative overseen by director of photography Peter Suschitzky and approved by director David Cronenberg Special Effects Gallery (HD) – There is an extensive collection of images detailing the special effects work of Chris Walas that is joined with a voice-over of Jody Duncan's essay from Cinefex magazine. 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

Criterion's 1080p AVC/MPEG-4 transfer for this release of 'Naked Lunch' is certainly impressive. This is by far the most notable iteration the film has seen since it was released in theaters, and even then it's hard to imagine an image as sharp and pristine as the one presented on this release.levels from already excellent levels on Arrow's 1080 version. Dolby Vision and/or HDR have added some rather interesting highlights toward both

Naked Lunch follows drug addict and exterminator William Lee (Peter Weller), a man who accidentally shoots and kills his wife, but that was after he hallucinated that a giant talking beetle was trying to conscript him to kill his wife for a mysterious corporation called Interzone Incorporated. Lee flees to Interzone, a constantly morphing city located somewhere in North Africa, and becomes involved in a mysterious plot orchestrated by Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider). Naturally, Bill has many drug episodes along the way, including one where his typewriter/beetle creature brutally murders another typewriter in gruesome, weird, and bloody detail.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. rather cheekily inserted old school into supposed tv monitors, looking at Burroughs, Cronenberg and the film. the following information on the restoration: Naked Lunch has been exclusively restored by Turbine in partnership with Arrow Films and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1