Naked Lunch Limited Edition Blu-ray

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Note: Screenshots are sourced from Arrow's standalone 1080 release of the film. Per Arrow's standard operation procedure, this 4K UHD and blue territory (the almost cobalt blue gown Davis wears in one scene late in the film is almost impossibly vivid in this version). Even the Winner of Best Picture, Best Direction, and Best Screenplay at the 1992 Genie Awards and featuring an astonishing score by Howard Shore (Videodrome), Naked Lunch is provocative, transgressive, and surreal – a feast for the senses, where nothing is true and everything is permitted. Featurette - a standard short featurette with comments by cast and crew members and footage from the shooting of Naked Lunch. In English, not subtitled. (7 min, 1080i). 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.

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. Fans of this film are going to be well pleased in my estimation, with a transfer that offers really sumptuous suffusion and some nicely improved detail bugs (and, yes, that's a joke). In fact, the hallucinatory aspect of the film is itself overt, with any number of characters ingesting or injecting 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.David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch is about a bizarre journey that begins and ends in the mind of a man people who have not experimented with drugs will likely never understand. It is like an intense dream which makes sense for as long as it lasts - then when one tries to remember it, one draws a blank. The film is loosely based on the famous book by William S. Burroughs, one of the icons of the Beat Generation and a man who experimented with virtually every drug he could get his hands on. 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 Lunch Film Still and Design Sketch Gallery - this gallery features production stills, by set photographer Attila Dory, of the cast and crew at work on the set of Naked Lunch. Also included are design sketches for some of the sets, drawn by art director James McAteer under the supervision of production designer Carol Spider. All images are in 1080p. 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. 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 special features are superb. Along with a new visual essay by David Cairns which provides a perfect half-hour explanation for those seeking increased clarity about the film, there are interviews with most key creative crew members, which break down the film into manageable chunks by looking at the score, the effects, the cinematography etc. as separate entities which build up into a larger vision. The interviews range from fifteen minutes to an hour plus, including a full 60 minutes with Peter Weller. On top of this there are two audio commentaries, including one featuring Cronenberg. If you can’t get some kind of handle on Naked Lunch after all this, give up! Original lossless 2.0 stereo and 5.1 audio options
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio commentary by director David CronenbergRecords the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. of all time, but one with an almost impossibly literary and "meta" approach that certain elevates it above any number of other films featuring mutant Concept Art Gallery, a collection of drawings and maquettes for the creatures of Naked Lunch by Stephan Dupuis In a career dedicated to seeing the unseeable and filming the unfilmable, perhaps only David Cronenberg could really do justice to William S. Burroughs' controversial novel, Naked Lunch. Weaving together elements of Burroughs' own remarkable biography with the content of the book, Cronenberg's film steps inside the body and mind of an author to depict the dangerous act of imagination itself from the inside out. Lee is brought to incredible life by Peter ‘ Robocop’ Weller, looking impossibly young and photographed to look almost insect-like. Ably supported by the likes of Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, and Roy Scheider, each giving a performance that is equally as obtuse and confusing as the narrative, but being completely in keeping with the whole. Legendary cinematographer Peter Suschitzky lights the sets hot and claustrophobically to intensify the density of the material, while usual Cronenberg collaborator Howard Shore, along with Ornette Coleman, score the film with enigmatic and jazz filled music that in isolation might seem odd, but in context is magnificent. And writer/director Cronenberg himself injects the film with a sense of glee as he wilfully sets out to deliberately infuriate and confuse the viewer by keeping all the answers tantalisingly just out of reach, but superficially stringing enough together to keep a narrative thread running throughout, no matter how much it meanders along the way.

New 4K restoration from the original camera negative overseen by director of photography Peter Suschitzky and approved by director David Cronenberg 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 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.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. Exterminate All Rational Thought, a new interview with star Peter Weller
• Peter Suschitzky on Naked Lunch, a new interview with the celebrated director of photography

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 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. The main character (Peter Weller) in Naked Lunch is a failed writer turned bug exterminator who discovers that he is short on bug powder because his wife, Joan (Judy Davis), has started shooting up on it. Instead of trying to get her off the powder, Bill decides to experiment with it and see if it is as good as Joan claims. Soon after, his typewriter turns into a giant talking bug that urges him to head to the Interzone, a magical place where lost souls can rebuild their lives and roam free. Before he leaves, Bill accidentally shoots his wife in the head.releases, hence the verbiage about HDR10 and Dolby Vision): 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 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