220 - Naked Lunch (1991)

Random Acts of Cinema

English - September 11, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
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Previous Episode: 810 - In A Lonely Place (1950)

Next Episode: 420 - Le Bonheur (1965)

David Cronenberg just might be the only director capable of adapting William S. Burroughs’ drug-fueled descent into paranoia, isolation, murder, conspiracy, hallucination, depravity, and… self-actualization? The director’s visionary deadpan perfectly places a stoney-faced Peter Weller into a world of beetle-like typewriters and narcotic-secreting, tough-talking mugwumps without it coming off as, you know: stupid.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Agnès Varda’s Le Bonheur (1965).