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Naked Lunch
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Exterminate all rational thought.
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.
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider
Cast: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider
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Naked Lunch (1991), directed by David Cronenberg, Turbine Medien 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 5.1 remaster, original theatrical stereo, two commentary tracks, and subtitles in English and German.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/
Video encoded in two-pass 15.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : It's been a while since I've done anything by Cronenberg, although he remains one of my favorite directors, and I think this is one of his best films, but I may be biased because I also kind of idolized Burroughs when I was young. Anyway, it's a weird and wonderful mix of an adaptation of the titular novel, a surreal biography of Burroughs himself, and a study of addiction and creativity. It also has a lot of very weird, goopy bugs doing sexual things with humans. The excellent cast includes Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, and Monique Mercure, as well as Cronenberg regulars like Nicholas Campbell and Robert A. Silverman. I also have to say this is a damn good looking film, shot beautifully by regular Cronenberg DP Peter Suschitzky. If you like surreal drug vibes, the Beat generation, body horror, Wilhelm Tell impressions, or gay sex with centipedes, this is definitely for you.
Bill Lee is an exterminator in early 1950s NYC who finds his wife Joan is injecting his insecticide to achieve a "Kafka high" that makes her "feel like a bug". Lee also tries injecting the bug powder, and soon after he's arrested by narcotics officers who leave him locked in an interrogation room with a giant talking beetle that frolics in his powder, and then says Bill is a secret agent, and that he should kill his wife, who's an agent of "Interzone Incorporated". Bill doesn't believe the bug, kills it, and escapes home, where he finds his writer friends Hank and Martin in the apartment, Hank having sex with Joan. Shortly after, Bill kills Joan while trying to shoot a drinking glass off her head. Since he's now accidentally completed his "mission", he flees to Interzone, the international zone of Tangiers, North Africa, where he spends his time writing reports about his mission, which eventually become the titular book, and getting hooked on various exotic drugs. His typewriter, Clark-Nova, turns into a talking insect, and tells him to track down a Dr. Benway by seducing Joan Frost, a doppelganger of Bill's dead wife. Lee steals Joan's husband Tom's typewriter, but it is a smaller and weaker bug than Lee's Clark-Nova, which attacks and devours it. He also meets Yves Cloquet, an attractive gay Swiss gentleman who turns out to be a giant shapeshifting centipede. Lee comes to the conclusion that Benway is masterminding a narcotics operation smuggling "the black meat", made from the guts of the giant aquatic Brazilian centipede, and things come to strange climax.
This is a really beautiful remaster, tight, subtle grain, excellent contrast and popping colors, sharp without being oversharpened, about as good as it gets. 5.1 remaster sounds great too, as does the stereo track, and since Cronenberg is the anti-Lynch and never tires of talking about his films, you get two different commentary tracks with him.
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IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/
Video encoded in two-pass 15.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : It's been a while since I've done anything by Cronenberg, although he remains one of my favorite directors, and I think this is one of his best films, but I may be biased because I also kind of idolized Burroughs when I was young. Anyway, it's a weird and wonderful mix of an adaptation of the titular novel, a surreal biography of Burroughs himself, and a study of addiction and creativity. It also has a lot of very weird, goopy bugs doing sexual things with humans. The excellent cast includes Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, and Monique Mercure, as well as Cronenberg regulars like Nicholas Campbell and Robert A. Silverman. I also have to say this is a damn good looking film, shot beautifully by regular Cronenberg DP Peter Suschitzky. If you like surreal drug vibes, the Beat generation, body horror, Wilhelm Tell impressions, or gay sex with centipedes, this is definitely for you.
Bill Lee is an exterminator in early 1950s NYC who finds his wife Joan is injecting his insecticide to achieve a "Kafka high" that makes her "feel like a bug". Lee also tries injecting the bug powder, and soon after he's arrested by narcotics officers who leave him locked in an interrogation room with a giant talking beetle that frolics in his powder, and then says Bill is a secret agent, and that he should kill his wife, who's an agent of "Interzone Incorporated". Bill doesn't believe the bug, kills it, and escapes home, where he finds his writer friends Hank and Martin in the apartment, Hank having sex with Joan. Shortly after, Bill kills Joan while trying to shoot a drinking glass off her head. Since he's now accidentally completed his "mission", he flees to Interzone, the international zone of Tangiers, North Africa, where he spends his time writing reports about his mission, which eventually become the titular book, and getting hooked on various exotic drugs. His typewriter, Clark-Nova, turns into a talking insect, and tells him to track down a Dr. Benway by seducing Joan Frost, a doppelganger of Bill's dead wife. Lee steals Joan's husband Tom's typewriter, but it is a smaller and weaker bug than Lee's Clark-Nova, which attacks and devours it. He also meets Yves Cloquet, an attractive gay Swiss gentleman who turns out to be a giant shapeshifting centipede. Lee comes to the conclusion that Benway is masterminding a narcotics operation smuggling "the black meat", made from the guts of the giant aquatic Brazilian centipede, and things come to strange climax.
This is a really beautiful remaster, tight, subtle grain, excellent contrast and popping colors, sharp without being oversharpened, about as good as it gets. 5.1 remaster sounds great too, as does the stereo track, and since Cronenberg is the anti-Lynch and never tires of talking about his films, you get two different commentary tracks with him.
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