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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Naked lunch : exterminate all rational thought / 20th Century Fox ; Jeremy Thomas presents a film by David Cronenberg ; produced by Jeremy Thomas ; written and directed by David Cronenberg.

Edition:

Director-approved special edition

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 1991, p2017.

Description:

2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book called "Naked lunch."

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Closed-captioned.

Series:

Criterion Collection

Subjects:

Pests -- Control -- Drama.

Playwriting -- Drama.

Drug abuse -- Drama.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Cronenberg, David, 1943-

Thomas, Jeremy.

Shore, Howard.

Coleman, Ornette.

Weller, Peter, 1947-

Davis, Judy, 1956-

Holm, Ian, 1931-2020.

Sands, Julian.

Mercure, Monique, 1930-2020

Scheider, Roy.

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Naked lunch.

Ornette Coleman Trio.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Other Title:

Naked making lunch.

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.

Based on the book by William S. Burroughs.

Special features: [disc 1] Feature film and audio commentary by Cronenberg and Weller ; [disc 2] "Naked making lunch" a 1992 documentary by Chris Radley about the making of the film, special effects gallery, featuring artwork and photos alongside an essay by Cinefex editor Jody Duncan, collection of original marketing materials, audio recording of William S. Burroughs reading from his novel Naked Lunch, gallery of photos taken by Allen Ginsberg of Burroughs, film stills gallery, Plus: an essay by film critic Janet Maslin.

Photography, Peter Suschitzky ; editor, Ronald Sanders ; music, Howard Shore, Ornette Coleman and the Ornette Coleman Trio.

Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scorsiani, Roy Scheider.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; enhanced widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital surround 2.0.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

Disc 1. The movie -- Disc 2. The supplements.

ISBN:

9781681432977

1681432978

9781681432977 : DVD

1681432978 : DVD

Publisher Number:

CC2761D

Other Number: