Naked Lunch (Criterion) DVD

• New high-definition digital transfer approved by director David Cronenberg and enhanced for widescreen televisions
• Audio commentary featuring Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller
• RSDL dual-layer edition for optimal image quality
• "Naked Making Lunch" making-of documentary by Chris Rodley
• Illustrated essay on the special effects by Jody Duncan, editor of Cinefex magazine, featuring artifacts from Cronenberg's archive
• Film stills gallery
• Original marketing materials
• William S. Burroughs' audio recording of excerpts from Naked Lunch
• Archival stills of William S. Burroughs from The Allen Ginsberg Trust
• 32-page booklet featuring essays by film critic Janet Maslin, Chris Rodley, Gary Indiana, and a piece by William S. Burroughs

Director: David Cronenberg
Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker

“Exterminate all rational thought.” Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs’ hallucinatory, “unfilmable” novel is finally realized on-screen by director David Cronenberg. Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. The fruit of an unholy union between two masters of the hilarious and the macabre, Naked Lunch mingles aspects of Burroughs’ novel with incidents from his own life, resulting in a compendium of paranoid fantasies and a searching investigation into the mysteries of the writing process.