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2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #220
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991
Disc 1. The movie -- Disc 2. The supplements
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."
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
MPAA rating: R
Closed-captioned
DVD; NTSC; region 1; enhanced widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital surround 2.0
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing