Naked Lunch (English) DVD

• Additional Details
• Format: DVD
• Rating: R
• Number of Discs: 2
• Run Time: 115 Minutes
• Region: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
• Language: English
• Studio: Criterion Collection
• DVD Release Date: November 11, 2003
• Closed Captioning: No
• Subtitles: English
• Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround
• Genre: Drama
• Color: Color
• Release Date: 1991

You are now entering Interzone, William S. Burroughs's phantasmagorical land of junk, paranoia, and crawly things. Best travel advice: "Exterminate all rational thought." In David Cronenberg's superbly shot, unnerving warp on the Burroughs novel, the novelist himself becomes a main character, with elements from Burroughs' life--including the shooting of his wife during a "William Tell" game, and bohemian friends Kerouac and Ginsberg--added to frame the book's wild visions. This is, ironically, a somewhat rational approach to an unfilmable book (and it makes a hair-curling double bill with Barton Fink, another look at writerly madness, with both films sharing Judy Davis). Cronenberg is a natural for oozing mugwumps and typewriters that turn into giant bugs, of course. But in the end, this is really his own vision of the artistic process, rather than Burroughs's hallucinatory descent into hell.