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Seen on: 03/19/2011

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Naked Lunch (1991)

Directed by David Cronenberg

Drama

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work—which he doesn’t remember writing.

Rated R | Length 115 minutes

Actors

Ian Holm | Judy Davis | Julian Richings | Julian Sands | Roy Scheider | Nicholas Campbell | Sean McCann | Robert A. Silverman | Joseph Scoren | Peter Weller | Monique Mercure | Michael Zelniker | Louis Ferreira | John Friesen | Joseph Di Mambro | Michael Caruana | Yuval Daniel | Peter Boretski | Howard Jerome | Kurt Reis | Laurent Hazout | Jim Yip | Claude Aflalo

Viewing Notes

I’m a huge William S. Burroughs fan and have read Naked Lunch and many of his other works; I’m also a big Cronenberg fan, so this seems like a match made in heaven for mokes like me.

Honestly, I’ve tried to watch this movie a number of times before and for whatever reason could not get through it.

So I was interested to see the whole thing in a theater. Despite the five talky chicks behind me, it really took for me this time. With the exception of the talking, there were no distractions here, just sitting in my seat and paying attention.

I can’t imagine this movie ever found a mainstream audience, and I’m willing to bet even a lot of horror and/or Cronenberg fans aren’t crazy about it, but I really enjoyed it a lot.

Having read Naked Lunch, and two or three biographies on Burroughs, I was able to get more out of it than the average moviegoer.

So glad to have seen this on the big screen, even though the print was scratchy as hell in some places.

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