Naked Lunch is Cronenberg's most unusual film, and arguably his best. It was inspired by a book which many believed was unfilmable because it is essentially a bizarre summation of drug-induced hallucinations and fantasies. There is no specific direction in it, only a certain atmosphere. 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 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

Naked Lunch is provocative, transgressive, and surreal – a feast for the senses, where nothing is true and everything is permitted. characters who waft through the story, including a kind of mad doctor played by Roy Scheider. There's a certain "reveal" (in both figurative and Trailer (SD, 2 min.) – The original theatrical trailer for 'Naked Lunch' that features a voice-over pretending to be that of William S. Burroughs.

Naked Lunch 4K Video

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.

It truly doesn’t matter if you’re tripping from bug dust or not when watching this HEVC-encoded 2160p presentation framed at 1.85:1, as you’ll be treated to an absolutely stunning transfer through and through. This presentation is sourced from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative undertaken by both Turbine Media and Arrow Films. Scanning was done in Toronto, then conforming and color grading was done in Germany by Turbine, and then the final transfer was approved by Cronenberg. The result is a beautiful and filmic image that pulls an incredible amount of detail out of the source.The film is anything but a straight adaptation of Burroughs’ source, eliding a loose autobiography of Burroughs’ life and specific passages from the book to create something incomprehensible but thematically full. Something that, I think, accurately captures Burroughs’ writing while being something completely of Cronenberg’s making. The horror maestro’s proclivity for stories about addiction and how that morphs both the person and the reality around them is on full display here, and the breathless production design and creature effects make for a fully realized vision. 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). Peter Suschitzky on Naked Lunch, a new interview with the celebrated director of photography (HD 11:01) Naked Lunch is presented in 4K UHD of Arrow Video with a 2160p transfer in 1.85:1. Arrow's insert booklet Note: Screenshots are sourced from Arrow's standalone 1080 release of the film. Per Arrow's standard operation procedure, this 4K UHD

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.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. 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.

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. Exterminate All Rational Thought, a new interview with star Peter Weller
• Peter Suschitzky on Naked Lunch, a new interview with the celebrated director of photographyInterzone 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. Concept Art Gallery – A collection of drawings and maquettes for the creatures of Naked Lunch by Stephan Dupuis