Lee moves from being a timid insect exterminator to the man who wrote Naked Lunch – even the name “Bill Lee” is a pseudonym Burroughs used for his earliest work – and for the first time in biopic history, there is no sense of catharsis or achievement about this. In the case of the Arrow disc, it means using a 4K restoration and two discs’ worth of mostly new bonus features to take you back to a time which, while more recent, seems even more distant: a time when something as weird as Naked Lunch could be an event movie. They are: The Assassination Bureau (1969), The Street Fighter Trilogy, Heart of Dragon (1985), Lovers Lane (2000), and Naked Lunch (1991).

org, one of the premier destinations on the web to discuss DVD releases from The Criterion Collection, Masters of Cinema, and other DVD production companies from around the world. This just goes to show that Cronenberg, who also wrote the script, was indeed the one and only director who could have effectively filmed Burroughs' ramblings.A longtime friend of Burroughs', Ginsberg was an avid photographer who documented the Beat generation. The extras package goes over and above in it’s adoration of the film, with all new material supplementing the archival footage, with this special edition having even more bumph to enjoy. Writing about Naked Lunch means you have to quickly get used to writing sentences like this) Joan, meanwhile, becomes a reincarnation of Bill Lee’s own wife, who he has already killed in a “William Tell routine” gone wrong, and who his controllers urge him to kill again, as “Women aren’t human, Bill! throughout in this version, and shadow detail in some of the dimly lit interior scenes can also show improvement. and blue territory (the almost cobalt blue gown Davis wears in one scene late in the film is almost impossibly vivid in this version).

Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed. Additionally, Arrow is offering another really handsomely packaged release with quite a bit of non disc swag.

It was inspired by a book which many believed was unfilmable because it is essentially a bizarre summation of drug-induced hallucinations and fantasies.

Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more. Lee is brought to incredible life by Peter ‘ Robocop’ Weller, looking impossibly young and photographed to look almost insect-like. 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. Weller contacted Cronenberg about the project as he had an interest in the work of Burroughs as well. Similar to the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Lech Majewski, it is virtually impossible to describe with simple words.A couple of his visions, and particularly the ones where he communicates with Clark Nova, are some of the wackiest sequences ever filmed. Featurette - a standard short featurette with comments by cast and crew members and footage from the shooting of Naked Lunch.

The interviews range from fifteen minutes to an hour plus, including a full 60 minutes with Peter Weller.Burroughs's hallucinatory, once-thought unfilmable novel NAKED LUNCH, directed by David Cronenberg (VIDEODROME), a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (ROBOCOP's Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, a netherworld of sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. With its focus on the art of writing, its insalubrious settings, its dark, surreal humour and its shifting character identities, Naked Lunch feels like a close cousin of the Coen Brothers’ Barton Fink.