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Naked Lunch
Directed by David Cronenberg
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… From TMDB
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Naked Lunch is a 1991 crime drama film, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis and Ian Holm.
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60 of 225 · most liked firstMy hot take: if you’re okay with Cronenberg turning Burroughs’ novel NAKED LUNCH into the 1991 film, you shouldn’t have some principled stance against whatever the hell Emerald Fennell did with WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
neutral · AI labelView post →An appetizing little lunch movie from one of my favorite filmmakers. #NowWatching Naked Lunch (1991) #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg celebrates birthday, 3/15/1943. Absolute genius! Bangers: 70s Shivers, Rabid, BROOD 81 Scanners 83 Videodrome & Dead Zone 86 Fly 88 Dead Ringers 91 Naked Lunch 96 Crash 99 eXistenZ 05 History of Violence 07 Eastern Promises 22 Crimes of the Future #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →William S. Burroughs and director David Cronenberg behind the scenes of Cronenberg's very loose adaptation of Burroughs' novel The Naked Lunch, 1991. It's a very disturbing but very good film if you've never seen it. Amazing soundtrack too.
positive · AI labelView post →William S. Burroughs (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "Naked Lunch") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Conventional wisdom says the book is always better than the movie, but that's not always true. Here are some movies I liked better than the books they're based on. What are yours? • Fight Club • Naked Lunch • Wild at Heart • Institute Benjamenta • Devil in a Blue Dress • Picnic at Hanging Rock
neutral · AI labelView post →Dr Peter Weller says this @realgdt.bsky.social shepherded and nurtured bizzaro film is something people bring up a lot to him now in addition to Robocop and Naked Lunch and Buckaroo Banzai when he’s doing signings, so to whoever is doing that, thank you.
neutral · AI labelView post →My list for this last year.. Discworld is my go-to comfort series. The last 3 on my DNF list will be restarted and finished next year. They only got postponed, not abandoned. 1. Weird Sisters- T. Pratchet 2. Starship Troopers- R. Heinlein (Podcast) 3. Berserker- A. Edmondston (NF) 4. Pyramids- T. Prattchet 5. Left Hand of Darkness- U. K. Leguin (podcast) 6. Philosophy for Life- J. Evans (NF) 7. I Am Legand- R. Matheson (podcast) 8. Lonely Boy- S. Jones (NF) 9. Guards, Guards- T. Prattchet…
neutral · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: Ian Holm BOTD 9/12/31: Eclectic career in theater & film, from classics to avant-garde. Won BAFTA, Tony, & SAG, Oscar nom for CHARIOTS OF FIRE (81). 79 Alien 85 Brazil 94 Madness of King George 97 Sweet Hereafter (❤️ All-timer!) Honorable mention: NAKED LUNCH (91). #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch: a movie about being a writer, internalized homophobia, and the disconnected relationship your body has with your mind. I think it is one of his best. A deeply unsettling film.
positive · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: Ian Holm BOTD 9/12/31: Eclectic career in theater & film, from classics to avant-garde. Won BAFTA, Tony, & SAG, Oscar nom for CHARIOTS OF FIRE (81). 79 Alien 85 Brazil 94 Madness of King George 97 Sweet Hereafter (❤️ All-timer!) Honorable mention: NAKED LUNCH (91). #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg celebrates birthday, 3/15/43. Absolute genius! Bangers: 70s Shivers, Rabid, Brood 81 Scanners 83 Videodrome & Dead Zone 86 Fly 88 Dead Ringers 91 Naked Lunch 96 Crash 99 eXistenZ 05 History of Violence 07 Eastern Promises 22 Crimes of the Future #filmsky 📽🎥🎬🎞
neutral · AI labelView post →I just discovered that the great Dr. Peter Weller has launched his own YouTube channel. And it has fun material here that should boost anyone's mood. Here is Weller making a great introduction to a Naked Lunch screening. youtu.be/NQHAcmWQ7u4?...
neutral · AI labelView post →William S. Burroughs (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "Naked Lunch") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Poster for the movie, NAKED LUNCH (1991), directed by David Cronenberg. Poster art by Hajime Sorayama.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh man, Thomas was a film lover's producer – Bad Timing, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Eureka, The Hit, The Last Emperor, Naked Lunch, Crash (the Cronenberg one, of course), Sexy Beast, High Rise, and many, many more. RIP. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a (not so) random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #266 "Naked Lunch" (David Cronenberg/1991) Fucking inspired madness from William S. Burroughs and David Cronenberg! Check it out.
positive · AI labelView post →If you're coming to the great film producer Jeremy Thomas' talk abt Sexy Beast, The Last Emperor, Crash, Bad Timing, Naked Lunch, Young Adam etc at The Edinburgh Film Fest tomorrow, a treat: He has curated a 40 min playlist of music from his movies. Will be played loud, from 7.50pm! Spread the word
neutral · AI labelView post →Castration Movie is our generation’s Naked Lunch
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll tell you who did want to see that David Cronenberg movie of "Naked Lunch"... David Bowie and Adam Ant, who came to see it at my Cineplex Beverly Center in early 1992. It was like a Tuesday morning show, as I recall, and they were the only two people in the theater for that showing.
neutral · AI labelView post →When I heard “Film adaptation of Naked Lunch” “by David Cronenberg” “Music by Ornette Coleman” I was exactly like the Vince McMahon meme
positive · AI labelView post →William S. Burroughs was BOTD in 1914 & died in 1997 at 83. I jerked off 2 his novel "Naked Lunch" in high school, my first porn. In 1991 Cronenberg made it into a film. The only time I met Burroughs was backstage after a spoken word performance w/ Kathy Acker at Convocation Hall
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching: @mw207.bsky.social says I need to see this, and the fact it's based on William S. Burroughs' work confirms this. ~20 years ago I read Naked Lunch in one sitting at a spa in Hot Springs, South Dakota, and that seemed as wrong as it sounds. #MovieSky #FilmSky #Queer
neutral · AI labelView post →When I think Canadan film, David Cronenberg is my first thought. He's mostly associated with weird body horror, but he's also found ways to adapt the unfilmable novels Crash and Naked Lunch, nobody else would have been able to make those work on screen.
positive · AI labelView post →#nowrewatching Naked Lunch (1991) dir. David Cronenberg #filmsky #horrorsky Someone (sorry forgot who it was) mentioned other Cronenberg films as inspiration for fan art, so it’s a good reason to rewatch this underrated film👀
positive · AI labelView post →Is there a name for the genre of film adaptations of literary works that get turned into fictionalized versions of their authors' biographies? Like "Naked Lunch", Soderbergh's "Kafka", or "The Master and Margarita (2024)". 🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →Naked Lunch (1991) I think this movie made me realize I was bi
neutral · AI labelView post →William S. Burroughs (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "Naked Lunch") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Naked Lunch: I would like to see my favourite typewriter/insect/butthole creature on the big screen I wanna know your film requests. What would you choose?
neutral · AI labelView post →ok if u liked the new Queer movie i would highly recommend cronenberg’s adaptation of burroughs’ Naked Lunch… it’s wild
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch (1991). Most people know Cronenberg from his recent collaboration with Charli xcx, but he actually got his start making quirky little movies this one #Filmsky #Sorry 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Naked Lunch is kind of my standard answer. I love that movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Oh, and if you haven't seen Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, watch Cronenberg's Naked Lunch. It's fascinating. It's the only movie I've seen several dozen times, but couldn't tell if any of them were enjoyable. 🤷♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →As I rudely exclaimed throughout the film, David's taken Naked Lunch and made it Blade Runner, and made it even more about art and the life of the mind. I wouldn't call it horror, but I will call it excellent sci-fi. Top marks all around.
positive · AI labelView post →#Hac24 #MusicChallenge Day 13: William Burroughs. Ornette Coleman - "Bugpowder (take 9)" (1991). An outtake from the soundtrack to David Cronenberg's film version of NAKED LUNCH. youtu.be/i3AKn0UjdeM
neutral · AI labelView post →First Poster and New Images From David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds Arrive Ahead of Cannes Premiere. > After an eight-year gap between Maps to the Stars and Crimes of the Future, thankfully the wait for the next feature from David Cronenberg isn’t nearly as long: The Shrouds will premiere this month at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s led by Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt, and while U.S. distribution has yet to be confirmed, French distributor Pyramide Films will release…
neutral · AI labelView post →I know DEAD RINGERS blah blah but NAKED LUNCH is the Cronenberg film I'd watch all day.
positive · AI labelView post →Add "between my legs" to a movie title *sigh* Naked Lunch Between My Legs 🤷♀️
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a movie druggy: My Naked Lunch with Andre
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm trying a new thing where I replace "AI" with "the dried centipede powder from Cronenberg's Naked Lunch movie". I only use the dried centipede powder to summarize documents! Did you know you can get dried centipede powder in different flavors? You don't have to stick with the default!
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie week continues! Gonna watch Naked Lunch Never seen it
neutral · AI labelView post →In 1992, an Australian cinema held an all-nude free screening of Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, but nobody showed up.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also The Naked Lunch, Barton Fink, Twin Peaks: the early ‘90s were swirling existential dread captured on color-filtered film.
neutral · AI labelView post →this @horrorvanguard.bsky.social with @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social discussing "Naked Lunch" is phenomenal, tackling both Adam's new book, and a deeply underappreciated Cronenberg movie: soundcloud.com/user-3179105...
neutral · AI labelView post →Super excited for this midnight film at the @newbeverly.bsky.social ! David Cronenberg’s NAKED LUNCH, on glorious 35MM. Never seen this one so I’m ready to get fucked up and have my brain melted with a packed audience.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm trying a new thing where I replace "AI" with "the dried centipede powder from Cronenberg's Naked Lunch movie". I only use the dried centipede powder to summarize documents! Did you know you can get dried centipede powder in different flavors? You don't have to stick with the default!
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm kind of in the mood for a movie weekend. Good time to start with a Naked Lunch. #NowWatching #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m off work, my son’s at school. I can throw a movie on, so to go along with my current Burroughs kick, I’m watching Naked Lunch
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "between my legs" to a movie title Naked Lunch Between My Legs
neutral · AI labelView post →If we are mandating a book for high school curriculum this week, my pick is ‘Naked Lunch’. It’s short. It’s brilliant. The movie doesn’t spoil it. It will not bore the Youngs. It’s a springboard for talking about every aspect of 20th century culture. And it would keep kids from ever trying heroin.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ornette Coleman, Barre Phillips & Denardo Coleman - A Night at Interzone. A concert for the Naked Lunch film and soundtrack, June 20, 1992, Tokyo, Japan youtu.be/4Lkba0IhSME?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Insert a movie into another movie: The Naked Lunch Gun #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Naked Lunch (1991) Dir. David Cronenberg #filmsky #movies #movie #cinema #film #films
neutral · AI labelView post →Second film of the night and 117th of the year, from my list of re-watches one each year 1930-2024, #NowWatching Naked Lunch, 1991, David Cronenberg, Canada #filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Naked Lunch for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →So there's this post on Tumblr of someone who downloaded what they thought was Naked Lunch, starring Peter Weller, and turned out to be My Little Pony The Movie starring Tara Strong et al, but with Naked Lunch subtitles... www.tumblr.com/fireball-me/...
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 1990s. Peter Weller, Bill Lee, "Naked Lunch" (directed by David Cronenberg). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #peterweller #nakedlunch #davidcronenberg
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember when Iain Holm died at 88 and my reaction was "wait, he was how old?" ignoring that he played a man deep into middle age in NAKED LUNCH, a film released thirty years earlier.
neutral · AI labelView post →Naked Lunch. That movie is so dense. Particularly when you find out what parts are ba based on real life.
neutral · AI labelView post →anyway NAKED LUNCH (1991) gorgeous opening credits complete with ornette coleman’s music (possibly the best bit of the film)
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