Naked Lunch

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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival 1992 - Nominated - Golden Berlin Bear

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1991 - Won - Best Screenplay

Fantasporto Awards 1992 - Nominated - Best Film

Genie Awards 1992 - Nominated - Best Actor

Berlin International Film Festival 1992 - Nominated - Golden Berlin Bear

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1991 - Won - Best Screenplay

Fantasporto Awards 1992 - Nominated - Best Film

Genie Awards 1992 - Nominated - Best Actor

Genie Awards 1992 - Nominated - Best Costume Design

Genie Awards 1992 - Nominated - Best Score

Genie Awards 1992 - Won - Best Art Direction/Production Design

Genie Awards 1992 - Won - Best Cinematography

Genie Awards 1992 - Won - Best Director

Genie Awards 1992 - Won - Best Picture

Genie Awards 1992 - Won - Best Sound

Genie Awards 1992 - Won - Best Sound Editing

Genie Awards 1992 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

London Critics Circle Film Awards 1993 - Won - Actress of the Year

National Society of Film Critics Awards 1992 - Won - Best Director

National Society of Film Critics Awards 1992 - Won - Best Screenplay

NYFCC Awards 1991 - Won - Best Screenplay

NYFCC Awards 1991 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

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Naked Lunch

Director:
David Cronenberg
115 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

"Exterminate all rational thought." Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs' hallucinatory, "unfilmable" novel is finally realized on screen by director David Cronenberg. Part time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. The fruit of an unholy union between two masters of the hilarious and the macabre, Naked Lunch mingles aspects of Burroughs' novel with incidents from his own life, resulting in a compendium of paranoid fantasies and a searching investigation into the mysteries of the writing process.

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Details

Runtime:
115 min.

Country:
CANADA

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • New high-definition digital transfer, approved by director David Cronenberg and enhanced for widescreen televisions
  • Audio commentary by Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller
  • Naked Making Lunch, a London Weekend Television documentary about the making of the film, directed by Chris Rodley
  • Illustrated essay about the special effects in Naked Lunch by the editor of Cinefex magazine, Jody Duncan, featuring artifacts from Cronenberg's archive
  • Film stills gallery
  • A collection of original marketing materials
  • William S. Burroughs' audio recording of excerpts from Naked Lunch
  • A collection of archival stills of William S. Burroughs from the Allen Ginsberg Trust
  • 32 - page booklet featuring essays by film critic Janet Maslin, Chris Rodley, Gary Indiana, and a piece by William S. Burroughs

 

 

 

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