220 - Naked Lunch (1991)

Published: Sept. 11, 2023, 11 a.m.

David Cronenberg just might be the only director capable of adapting William S. Burroughs\u2019 drug-fueled descent into paranoia, isolation, murder, conspiracy, hallucination, depravity, and\u2026 self-actualization? \xa0The director\u2019s 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\u2019d like to watch ahead for next week\u2019s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Agn\xe8s Varda\u2019s\xa0Le Bonheur\xa0(1965).