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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. Criterion's upcoming Blu-ray release allows one to experience the film at home in the best possible way.
Walas also created the titular Gremlins of Joe Dante’s film, and his creations for Naked Lunch are caught somewhere between these two stools.
Most of the book’s sexuality, though, is downplayed, perhaps because of its sadism as much as its homoeroticism. He also appreciated that he could act against puppets and practical effects rather then stop motion animation or CGI.
For those not familiar with Burroughs’ life or his body work, both he and Weller go into great detail about how the film is a pastiche of prose and real life incidents. While such ambiguity may seem problematic in itself, it’s difficult to imagine how Cronenberg could’ve more accurately depicted the real life complexity of the self-disgust several of the Beats reportedly felt about their own sexuality.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. Adapting any literary work into film is always a difficult task; transcribing the page to frame, but keeping the essence, takes skill - or bravery - as often the best butcher their source and are all the more successful for it. Featurette - a standard short featurette with comments by cast and crew members and footage from the shooting of Naked Lunch. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered.
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