naked lunch is a 1991 science fiction drama film co-written and directed by david cronenberg and starring peter weller , judy davis , ian holm , and roy scheider .

it is an adaptation of william s. burroughs ' 1959 novel of the same name , and an international co-production of canada , britain and japan .

the film was released on december 27 , 1991 in the united states and april 24 , 1992 in the united kingdom by 20th century fox .

it received positive reviews from critics , but was a box office bomb , garnering only $ 2.6 million out of a $ 17 – 18 million budget due to a limited release .

it won numerous honours , including the national society of film critics award for best director and seven genie awards , notably best motion picture .

naked lunch has since become a cult film .

naked lunch ( film )

title drop : naked lunch turns out to be a novel lee is writing throughout the film .
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the film is a remarkable homage to pulp fiction . the set décor , consumes and especially the music are all musings of a film noir , and that era of film . the film feels a lot like “chinatown” because it’s a merging of film and neo noir . as to where many feel that “chinatown” is a perfect film , i feel that “naked lunch” is a perfect film .
how loyal has cronenberg been to the william s . burroughs book naked lunch ?
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naked lunch , peter weller , 1991 , tm & copyright ( c ) 20th century fox film corp . all rights reserved .
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naked lunch , peter weller , 1991 , tm and copyright ( c ) 20th century fox film corp . all rights reserved .
her prescience has been fulfilled by the pairing of these two idiosyncratic figures under the eye of david cronenberg in his film naked lunch .
how composer howard shore brought the sounds of tangier to william s . burroughs ' ‘naked lunch’
naked lunch , ian holm , peter weller , 1991 , tm & copyright ( c ) 20th century fox film corp . all rights reserved .
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if you wanna be cool you gotta read naked lunch . that ' s a cool book .
something old , so . . . : may 2015 - naked lunch by william s . burroughs
naked lunch @ 50 : anniversary essays , southern illinois university press , 2009 . 293 pp .
naked lunch by william s . burroughs hardcover , 320 pages grove press list price : $ 24
labels : david cronenberg , judy davis , naked lunch , peter weller , william s . burroughs
hello naked lunch sound like a original movie i want to see it cause it looks spooky .
how composer howard shore brought the sounds of tangier to william s . burroughs ' ‘naked lunch’ - noisey
an excerpt from william s . burroughs comic / noir / experimental masterpiece ' naked - lunch ' .
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comparison to “chinatown” is absolutely , absolutely spot on . where that film is suffocatingly pessimistic this film is joyously optimistic .
movies : out to lunch with the guru of gross - out : david cronenberg says the only way he could be faithful to william s . burroughs ' celebrated ' naked lunch ' on film was to betray it - latimes
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henry threadgill , denardo coleman and charnett moffett rehearsing for ' naked lunch ' in ornette coleman ' s studio .
i love naked lunch the movie ( haven ' t read the book ) . great blog you have here .
* picture :
life is sweet .
runners - up :
naked lunch ,
bugsy .
“naked lunch” brought to social notice themes of drug use , homosexuality , hyperbolic violence , and anti - authoritarian paranoia .
on lincoln center ' s ornette coleman festival , and the ' naked lunch ' event that kicks off the series .
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lost & found : howard shore and ornette coleman ' s naked lunch - fact magazine : music news , new music .
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the howard shore / mondo collaborative editions of naked lunch , dead , ringers , and crash will be available through mondo’s website .
even moreso than dead ringers , most of naked lunch ‘s toronto locations are long gone , save for cinespace studios , whose facilities were used to represent north african markets and a host of other weird locations . naked lunch is a film that , even for people used to cronenberg’s fondness for icky things , really ups the ante .
author avatar : william lee is the avatar of william s . burroughs . throughout the movie he ' s actually writing naked lunch .
naked lunch
: music from the original soundtrack ; by howard shore , ornette coleman and
the london philharmonic orchesta
.
take a deep dive into the creation process of the film score for david cronenberg’s groundbreaking 1991 film naked lunch . in conversation with denardo coleman , composer howard shore recalls how he incorporated ornette coleman’s unique voice into the film’s soundscape in order to create an alternate , interzone universe . lincoln center festival 2017 will include a screening of naked lunch with live accompaniment performed by ensemble signal and featuring ravi coltrane , henry threadgill , charnett moffett , and denardo coleman . for more information , visit lincolncenterfestival . org .
all month , i have been looking at the life and works of william s . burroughs . this month concludes with the regular “book and film” feature focusing on his seminal work naked lunch and its 1991 adaptation .
i want to know which parts and concepts in the movie naked lunch are based on the book and which parts are added by cronenberg .
in 1966 burroughs and gysin worked together to create the short film , the cut ups . whilst filmed before they began plotting a movie of naked lunch , the cut ups nonetheless came from their collaboration in the aftermath of the publication of naked lunch and thus may be able to tell us a little about what we could have expected from the doomed project .
david cronenberg released a 1991 film adaptation of naked lunch that used very little of the book ' s material , claiming a literal adaption would be not only impossible , but
banned in every country in the world
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this summer , howard shore’s teamed up with mondo to release vinyl editions of three of his scores from cronenberg films : naked lunch , 1988’s dead ringers , and crash ( 1996 ) . we spoke with shore about his work on naked lunch , including how he used the music of morocco and the jazz of famous ornette coleman to transport the film’s audience into the “interzone . ”
i can think of at least two things wrong with that title . - - nelson after watching
naked lunch
,
bart on the road
while naked lunch wasn’t likely to redirect the course of soundtracks , it did allow coleman’s distinctive saxophone and compositional styles to be heard by yet another audience .
to date , naked lunch has sold more than 1 million copies ; a 50th anniversary edition of the novel is due out next month from grove press .
some might find cronenberg’s approach both a butchery and a concession to homophobia . in truth , his refusal to make naked lunch a “gay film” ( whatever that is ) fits well with burroughs and the beats conception of sexuality and its meaning .
i feel like this was false advertising . i was expecting naked ladies . instead it ' s all weird . love me some peter weller . i have watched some bad movies that had him . he seems enigmatic . since you can ' t really film ' naked lunch ' , this is a pretty good substitute .
peter weller , who portrays burroughs , describes cronenberg’s effort as being a film about the subtext of naked lunch rather than the novel itself . at its heart , he says , pulses the sadness that created the art . as cronenberg notes , burroughs often described his art as a way to defeat “the ugly spirit” , the shadows of a strange and violent night in 1951 that never left him . naked lunch the film probes these dark places and lets the ugly spirits come out to play .
* cinematography : roger deakins ,
barton fink .
runners - up : peter suschitzky ,
naked lunch
; allen daviau ,
bugsy .
naked lunch copyright 1959 by william s . burroughs , reprinted with the permission of the publisher , grove press , an imprint of grove / atlantic , inc .
furthermore , naked lunch isn’t comprised of a traditional narrative that would adapt well to the screen . the story jumps around wildly through time and space , with characters rarely developing , if at all . its fragmentary composition would surely baffle film - goers .
denardo was speaking in his father’s loft , in the garment district of manhattan , during a recent rehearsal for the naked lunch performance . against one wall , a large flatscreen monitor had the film playing on mute , with a time code in the corner .
with the headline : review / film ; drifting in and out of a kafkaesque reality .
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pragmatic adaptation : cronenberg ' s adaptation of the unfilmable naked lunch took story elements from the book and melded them together with parts of william s . burroughs ' biography .
movie director david cronenberg was a gutsy guy , asking ornette coleman to play on the soundtrack for his inspired but ultimately flawed realisation of crusty old bill burroughs’ naked lunch .
homer and lisa get lunch , courtesy of one of snpp ' s vending machines .
the film of the book : naked lunch is un - adaptable , for a variety of reasons . ( chief among them ; semi - obscene , no coherent plot . ) cronenberg ' s solution when doing the film adaptation was to graft a few scenes and ideas from the novels onto a roman à clef version of author william s . burroughs ' life .
it seemed unlikely , then , that naked lunch would one day become a feature film . yet , not long after the obscenity trial that declared the book of enough social value to be unleashed upon the public , william s . burroughs was plotting its way into cinema .
* supporting actress : jane horrocks ,
life is sweet .
runners - up : juliette lewis ,
cape fear
; judy davis ,
naked lunch .
* director : david cronenberg ,
naked lunch .
runners - up : mike leigh ,
life is sweet
; jonathan demme ,
silence of the lambs .
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it would appear that the film that resulted from this too - perfect match of sensibilities has fulfilled even its grander expectations .
naked lunch ,
which opened last month in manhattan and los angeles , the film that even burroughs believed could never be made , is about to appear in the nation ' s multiplexes on friday - - whether the nation is ready for it or not .
the movie naked lunch is not only an adaption of the book ( which is already considered highly autobiographical ) , but also about what drove burroughs to write it in the first place .
in 1963 burroughs , gysin and balch collaborated on the short film towers open fire . directed by balch , the film featured moroccan music performed by gysin , and voice - overs by the unmistakable sardonic burroughs .
naked lunch’s music takes the viewer into a jazzy - beat - poet - headspace . what was your approach for this film ? naked lunch is set in a world called “interzone , ” and from william s . burroughs novel , i knew it was somewhere in north africa . the score’s a combination of north african music by the master musicians of jajouka , and ornette coleman—who was a contemporary of burroughs . i tried to put the idea of new york bebop and moroccan music together .
of the published primary sources , naked lunch will , of course , be the central text used in this thesis . naked lunch originated as a series of “routines” , the seeds and early versions of which can often be found in burroughs’ letters in the 1940s and 50s , written mainly to allen ginsberg from tangier , and now published in viking penguin . this is an invaluable source in clarifying and contextualising many of the ideas put forward in naked lunch . some of burroughs’ previously unpublished “routines” from the naked lunch period can be found in the interzone collection , which is also of use . excerpts from burroughs’ body of work , some previously unpublished , are collected in word virus : the william burroughs reader , which contains perceptive essays by ann douglas and james grauerholz .
1991 saw the release of naked lunch , cronenberg’s long - gestating adaptation of william s . burroughs’ supposedly unfilmable novel ( an irritating epithet : nothing is unfilmable ) . the film , though far from perfect , succeeds as a love - letter to burroughs – cronenberg interprets his textual source material as loosely as wild bill interpreted life , and seeks to further blur the distinction between the author and his protagonist , william lee ( played by peter weller ) . the resulting film is , of course , crazy – no adaptation of naked lunch could fail to be , even if richard curtis were in the director’s chair – but this craziness is tempered by cronenberg’s gift for suspense and storytelling . though it has numerous experimental flourishes , naked lunch is not an experimental film . like all cronenberg’s mature work , it’s bound by hollywood conventions , which only serves to make its underlying subversiveness more potent .
the three men formed a production company in 1970 , called friendly films limited . they reviewed screenplays , treatments and ran through ideas together on how to make naked lunch work as a movie .
naked lunch was not a box office success — despite wide theatrical release , it only grossed about $ 2 . 6 million , a fraction of its roughly $ 17 million budget — but it has acquired the aura of a cult classic . still , even by the standards of cronenberg , the unrivaled auteur of body horror , the film retains its potential to shock . ( try an image search for “mugwump , ” or “ naked lunch typewriter , ” and you’ll get the idea . )
i am a big fan of david cronenberg , and due to the fact that barnes and noble was doing their 50 % off criterion collection sale , i picked up “naked lunch” and watched last night . as a body of work , i think that cronenberg has made very good films , and i think he’s a very good auteur – but as for “naked lunch” , it’s cronenberg’s masterpiece .
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. . one of the most talented and creative writers on film working in the world today .
william s . burroughs’ naked lunch is his most well - known work and a key work in the counter - culture moment . its then controversial elements make for great satire , holding up a mirror to 1950’s american society . the novel’s graphic sexuality , explicit violence , and the non - linear , cut - up method used makes it difficult for a film adaptation . but david croneberg smartly opted not to aim for a straight - forward adaptation of naked lunch for his 1991 film . rather , he took key themes from burroughs’ novel and incorporates them with important aspects of burroughs’ life , namely the development of naked lunch and his motivations for becoming a writer . in this regard , naked lunch is an excellent take on this hard to film novel . the cast is game for the weirdness cronenberg is aiming for , and his experience on his previous films ( especially scanners , videodrome , and the fly ) helps in developing the surrealistic atmosphere burroughs achieved in the novel . fans of burroughs’ work will appreciate the elements from burroughs’ life and will surely appreciate cronenberg’s audacity and enthusiasm in taking on this great novel .
the first of many startling reveals in naked lunch , the 1991 david cronenberg film , occurs five seconds into the opening title sequence . an orchestra has just struck its first chords , foreboding and tremulous , when ornette coleman’s alto saxophone goes skittering into action , like an errant flashlight beam across a velvet curtain .
shore is a highly prolific film composer : in addition to his close association with cronenberg , he is known for his work on the lord of the rings movies , and on several martin scorsese epics ( including the departed and gangs of new york ) . but naked lunch represents a special convergence for him .
i’m thinking about the book both because burroughs is a character in my novel - in - progress turing & burroughs , and because i watched david cronenberg’s naked lunch via netflix instant - watch last night .
g - rated drug : the drug - fueled , hallucination - laden madness that is naked lunch ( the film , at least ) revolves around lee ' s addiction to . . . extermination powder ? granted , it was meant as an indirect adaptation of the original novel , in which heroin was the culprit .
in 1991 naked lunch was finally committed to film by the director david cronenberg , and with burroughs’ permission . cronenberg acknowledged the book’s label of being “unfilmable” , saying that a straight forward adaptation would “cost 100 million dollars and be banned in every country in the world . ” indeed , that’s not hard to imagine .
best film editing ( awarded in memory of karen schmeer ) - daniel p . hanley and mike hill for rush
provocative , but never as clever as it thinks it is , cronenberg ' s film is ultimately a misfire .
* screenplay : david cronenberg ,
naked lunch .
runners - up : james toback ,
bugsy
; agnieszka holland ,
europa , europa
; calder willingham ,
rambling rose .
if you look carefully at these words , you ' ll realize that i ' m actually saying something else . i ' m not actually telling you about the several reasons why i enjoyed watching naked lunch - about the impeccable writing , the film ' s strange sense of humor ; about the metaphors , the social commentary .
and it ' s our ticket to the best spring break of our lives !
, bart announces . and it begins with a ticket to an r - rated movie - -
naked lunch
.
first published 50 years ago , william s . burroughs ' novel naked lunch is a dark , wild ride through the terror of heroin addiction and withdrawal , filled with paranoia , erotica and drug - fueled hallucinations .
bookstores in film : a list of movies with at least one scene set in a bookstore . books and bibliophiles .
by time burroughs was actually living in tangier , he was well past the transition , constantly writing about boys in his letters , so in that sense the film is historically inaccurate . but we’re not talking about true history in the movie naked lunch . we’re talking about attaching the images and dialog of an author’s fantastic novel to a mythologized version of the author’s life . and in some ways the transitional state is a good choice to use for the film . in any case the character is , as burroughs remarked to cronenberg re . the film , “queer enough . ”
there is something about noir that begs genre - blending , i am convinced . whether it ' s sci - fi in blade runner , comedy in who framed roger rabbit ? , or surrealism here in naked lunch , there is just something about noir and neo - noir that make it so much the chameleon of genres , working with and for so many other types of films . for me , it worked perfectly in naked lunch .
in fact , one could view the movie less as an adaptation of the book than as a biopic with elements of naked lunch thrown in to represent the perpetual junk haze in which burroughs spent most of his life .
this week lincoln center is honoring coleman , who died in 2015 , with a festival of music and film organized by his son , the drummer denardo coleman . the kickoff event , on tuesday night , is a screening of naked lunch with live orchestral accompaniment and not one but two eminent soloists , the saxophonists henry threadgill and ravi coltrane .
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as an important text in the counter - culture movement , naked lunch puts american culture under a microscope and points out flaws in a harsh , blunt way . its groundbreaking style , smart style , and infamous graphicness are part of the reasons why it became as popular as it was notorious . the draw towards adapting it for film is certainly tantalizing . burroughs himself attempted to try to adapt it into a film , but funding fell through . it would take thirty - two years after its publication before someone would have the wherewithal and vision to take on the novel and turn it into a film .
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this essay by novelist , playwright , and culture critic gary indiana originally appeared in the 1992 book everything is permitted : the making of “naked lunch . ” burroughs’s work tends to affect people like a rorschach test . it separates cultural …
othing is true ; everything is permitted . ” welcome to interzone , the hellish playground of william burroughs’ ‘naked lunch’ . along with jack kerouac and allen ginsberg , burroughs was among the central figures of the beat generation . over a frenzied decade bridging the 1950s and ’60s they were instrumental in reshaping america’s cultural landscape , tearing up their elders’ starchy doctrine and blazing the trail for the counterculture that followed . as dynamic , brilliant young things they seemingly make for ideal cinematic subjects , but only one film managed to capture something of the essence of its author and the beat generation at large : david cronenberg’s naked lunch .
with the release of cronenberg’s naked lunch , burroughs distanced himself somewhat from previous attempts to film the “unfilmable . ” he said that “the late brion gysin and antony balch , set out to adapt it for film , ” failing to mention his own input . also , gysin’s screenplay had been “long on burlesque . . . a series of music - hall comedy songs that he composed . ” he appeared content with the result of a twenty year pursuit for a silver - screen version of his literary classic .
story : with little in the way of coherent narrative , naked lunch takes the form of disconnected episodes describing the activities of bizarrely imagined figures - junkies , agents ,
faggots
- who inhabit interzone , a fantastical urban melting pot . certain characters recur - bill lee , dr benway , the mugwumps - in convoluted , often gruesomely obscene scenarios . the author described naked lunch as
a matter of catharsis , where i say the most horrible things i can think of
.
by 1991 , burroughs had been involved in a few films , mainly as cameos . his most significant role prior to his involvement in naked lunch was a role as tom the junkie priest in gus van sant’s drugstore cowboy . as well , none of his works had really been adapted for the screen , mainly because they were thought to be unfilmable . but david cronenberg , an admirer of burroughs’ , decided to take on the herculean task of adapting his most famous work naked lunch . having already directed films such as scanners , videodrome , the fly , and dead ringers , cronenberg had made a name for himself as a director with an eye for the strange and surreal , and a master of “venereal horror . ” with burroughs’ blessing , cronenberg set out to film what is more an adaptation of burroughs’ life and novels than it is an adaptation of naked lunch .
how book and film compare : burroughs ' s book is merely the starting point for cronenberg ' s film , which operates more as a profile of burroughs ' s perverse imagination . the real life shooting of joan is the film ' s opening scene ( though cronenberg shifts its location to new york ) and merges burroughs ' s character with interzone agent bill lee and another briefly glimpsed figure , the exterminator .
* foreign film :
double life of veronique .
runners - up :
the vanishing
;
europa , europa .
for the purposes of the film , cronenberg created what wikipedia terms a “ metatexual adaptation . ” that is , he blended elements of the novel with the by - now - legendary story of burroughs’s life—the shooting of his wife , the expatriate years in tangier , typing the pages of naked lunch high in his tangier room , jack kerouac and allen ginsberg helping him assemble the manuscript . all of this material is outlined in burroughs’s letters , and in the reminiscences of his beat friends—the transreal oeuvre is blended together to produce the transreal film .
film - makers : david cronenberg ( b1943 ) emerged in the mid - 1970s with a string of perverse low - budget horror films , in which disease and mutation figured strongly . he made the switch to the mainstream with the stephen king adaptation the dead zone ( 1983 ) . his subsequent hit , the fly ( 1986 ) , gave him the clout to make the supposedly unfilmable naked lunch .
so bill and joan perform their
william tell act ,
just as mr . burroughs and his wife , joan vollmer burroughs , did on one drunken evening in mexico city in 1951 . as bill shoots and kills joan , the film makes one of its many allusions to the real events of mr . burroughs ' s life . soon afterward , he either physically or psychically flees new york for interzone , a tangier - like exotic setting in which the film ' s nightmarishness escalates to new levels ( although
naked lunch
is so thoroughly hallucinatory that it ' s difficult to know exactly where its characters are , literally or figuratively ) . in interzone , the suffering gets worse and the bugs get bigger as bill attempts to write what will be
naked lunch ,
the novel .
”the title means exactly what the words say : naked lunch - - a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of the fork . ” the book title was suggested by jack kerouac . if not for the intervention of william s . burroughs friends , naked lunch would have never seen the light of day . peter orlovsky , allen ginsberg , and jack kerouac decided to visit burroughs in tangiers and see if they could salvage any of the fragmented writing that had been dripping from the mind of burroughs while he was nurs
i sort of resisted the idea of being a writer . . . . but jack [ kerouac ] definitely did encourage me . and he said that i would write a novel called . . . ' naked lunch . ' that ' s his title , kerouac .
favourite because it staunches the guff about the tortured imagination that fills the rest of the movie . for cronenberg ' s naked lunch , it soon transpires , is yet another film about the interior life of the writer to join steven soderbergh ' s forthcoming kafka and the coen brothers ' s barton fink . in placing him in a dilapidated hotel it links arms with both the latter and kubrick ' s the shining .
coleman is more than a featured soloist in howard shore’s original score for naked lunch : his quizzical , bracing cry also provides something like a point of view in the film , which was adapted from the landmark novel by william s . burroughs . the chiming polytonality of the music shows an affinity with coleman’s language , and he takes to the orchestrations as naturally as he does to the odd interlude with his trio .
so cronenberg , with burroughs ' blessing , avoided literal adaptation , fashioning , instead , a story about a heroin - addicted writer named william lee ( a name burroughs frequently uses for a fictitious alter ego ) who accidentally shoots his wife to death and expatriates himself to tangier , where he fights through his many demons to write a book called
naked lunch .
aspects of burroughs ' own life , including the accidental murder of his wife joan , are mixed together with pieces from
naked lunch
and burroughs ' other novels .
burroughs ' ' naked lunch , ' still fresh at 50 once the center of an obscenity trial , william s . burroughs ' novel is a dark , wild ride through the terror of heroin addiction and withdrawal , filled with paranoia , erotica and drug - fueled hallucinations .
burroughs described the novel as
a frozen moment when everyone sees what is at the end of every fork .
poet anne waldman says that at the time it was published , naked lunch offered a stark contrast to the prevailing vision of reality during the eisenhower years :
the single disc included in this set contains the same special features as criterion’s previous dvd release . but these are an outstanding set of features , a treat for burroughs and beats fans as well as cronenberg aficionados . the “making of” feature includes interviews and readings by burroughs . the disc also includes burroughs reading selected passages from naked lunch ( especially the segments dealing with the film’s philosophical themes of social discipline and punishment ) .
note : this year ' s awards are dedicated to the memory of robin dougherty , a former boston phoenix film critic who passed away this summer .
anyway , they seems to be good releases , and an oportunity for all film score fans discover the music that howard shore has composed for cronenberg .
more than a film about hallucinations , is a film that hallucinates , incorporating in its filmic matter the forms of unreality , that , by a magic trick - in a film that uses the studio like the two versions of
the thief of bagdad
- is transmuted into a hyperrealism of the senses . writing is an act that follows the sacrifice and mingles with the loss , while shooting is the figurative fulfillment of this
petite morte
.
naked lunch represents that most unfilmable of all unfilmable projects . salinger may have been right that the catcher in the rye could not be captured on celluloid . he probably meant by this that the book conveys a level of angst and yearning that likely couldn’t be matched on screen .
i sort of resisted the idea of being a writer ,
he said .
but jack [ kerouac ] definitely did encourage me . and he said that i would write a novel called . . . naked lunch . that ' s his title , kerouac .
it ' s not the woman with her kelvinator refrigerator , opening the door to show you how crisp the lettuce stays ,
says waldman .
it ' s the ' naked lunch ' . . . where you see reality clearly , you see the lettuce decomposing .
william burroughs’s novel naked lunch has been rattling literary cages since it was published at the end of the repressive fifties . though nothing in david cronenberg’s free - form , $ 15 million film is as jolting as the poetically eroticized violence of the book , there’s plenty to scare off the uninitiated , including a giant centipede that rapes and devours a gay boy in a bird cage . a crash course in the pertinent works of burroughs ( exterminator ! , junky , queer ) and cronenberg ( the brood , scanners , the fly ) couldn’t hurt , but the film stands on its own metaphors .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
this film is built around paranoia and mystery , it’s very incoherent with its flow and intention and the film is the perfect metaphor about the writing process . as lee dives further into the underground world of drugs and being a secret agent cronenberg builds the paranoia which at times feel sort of polanski - esq .
the group ' s best screenplay award went to
naked lunch ,
david cronenberg ' s freewheeling adaptation of william s . burroughs ' s novel , a film that will not open until next week . the cinematography prize went to roger deakins for his work on
barton fink ,
joel and ethan coen ' s droll , nightmarish look at hollywood in the 1940 ' s . judy davis was named best supporting actress for a total of three performances in these two films . she plays two different women in the hallucinatory
naked lunch .
samuel l . jackson was voted best supporting actor for his performance as a drug addict in spike lee ' s
jungle fever .
' europa , europa ' a winner
naked lunch is a symphony of smut ; a fever - dream of filth ; a hallucination ; a work of art . this is not a novel that charts an easy course . it is wild , erratic , crude to the extreme , and largely incomprehensible but for occasional moments of clarity . there is genius in these naked pages , a raw and fractured genius , the voice of the depraved and drug - addled , mainlined , unfiltered , directly into the vein . this lunch is opulent , sumptuous , but excessive , tainted , vomit - inducing . burroughs ' s masterpi
that aspect of burroughs is celebrated at feature length in “naked lunch , ” the new david cronenberg film in which peter weller gives a performance as evocative as it is depressing , as a fictional character obviously meant to be taken as the author . the film opens with “ william lee ” making one of his periodic attempts to go straight . he has kicked drugs , he claims , and is gainfully employed as an insect exterminator . but his wife ( judy davis ) is addicted to the bug powder , and so is bill , to such an extent that millions of cockroaches owe him their lives .
but the key to the film’s longevity is the union at its rotten core : cronenberg and burroughs . they share a flair for the grotesque , met with perfect nonchalance and bone - dry wit . in naked lunch , cronenberg invites the audience to dine in hell . the intense imagery of his body - horror – nightmares of flesh and metal , lust and infection – finds an equal in burroughs’ prose . but crucially cronenberg’s adaptation is a fusion of the two artists’ minds , as if they crossed in the fly’s telepods . keeping the title was key , though . as burroughs put it , “the title means exactly what the words say : naked lunch , a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork . ”
special commendation to george mansour - the
repo man award
to the film booker for the nickelodeon cinema , for repossessing repo man from consignment to television .
ruritania : in the brief bit of it we see in the film , annexia ' s border guards are wearing little fur hats and speak in russian accents .
like many of the best comedies and tragedies , this weimar - era silent film understands how each mode is often a hair ' s breadth from the other .
the criterion release of david cronenberg’s naked lunch offers the closest to this experience we are likely to ever get . burroughs’ himself says in the disc’s “making of” feature that he never expected more than a fraction of the book to make it into the film . in fact , this is something other than a filming of a book , an adaptation . in fact , it’s not really an adaptation at all . it’s a collaborative project , something entirely new .
) , ' and now they try to swallow ` naked lunch . ' this movie was , from what i heard , a highly surreal trip into the mind of a junkie - - or something like that . certainly , it ' s not as much fun as the title suggests .
but it’s a least possible to imagine holden caulfield slumming around manhattan . how do you picture the flumes of bodily excrescence that explode in naked lunch , its alien interrogators and masters of control hovering over bodies in pain and pleasure , the inward ecstasies and torment of bodies on a perpetual high ?
this book is beautiful in a sick - grotesque - wild - hilarious - creative - mind - bending - outlandish - drug - filled - dirty - brave kind of way . if i could use one word to describe it , it would be “bizarre” ; although “hilarious” and “important” could work , too . in naked lunch you are taken into the mind of william s . burroughs - - a twisted , drug addicted man , who also happens to be genius . when considering its content , it’s no wonder naked lunch was banned and railed against when it was first released ; it’s also
part of cronenberg ' s successful strategy is looking beyond the single book at the whole of burroughs ' work and also his biography . he drapes the entire film in literary fabric , with the reference to kafka in regards to the narcotic high the film ' s characters get from bug powder dust being a fairly telling allusion . the plot of the movie is kafakesque with interwoven lines of paranoia , labyrinthine bureaucracies , and the self - replicating puzzle that the film ' s hero finds himself in .
the flaw of the 5 - star rating system is in trying figure out whether you should award stars based on how much you liked a book , or based on how
good
you think a book is . these two criteria are often distinct from each other , and naked lunch , at least for me , is a perfect example of this . i think that naked lunch is a brilliant book , an that burroughs is one of our century ' s great literary geniuses . so , that makes it a five star book . but did i enjoy reading it ? sometimes very much , sometimes n
found this file i started on my computer june 9 , 2007 : hypertext reading of naked lunch reading naked lunch as it was intended : open the book at any page and just read what is there . keeping track of pages read , so that there is no duplication and each page is given its consideration . am a bit anal about these things , so i ' m not going to cut in the middle of a chapter . . . going to read nearest chapter from where i pry open the book . the book is never meant to end , because it ' s an immortal junky ' s ni
these elements , plus a lot of attention to the addictive powers of the black meat of the giant brazilian centipede , insure that mr . cronenberg ' s version of
naked lunch
is no more suitable to the fainthearted than mr . burroughs ' s was . and the film , while very different from the book , is every bit as impenetrable in its own way . by the time it reaches a repellent fever pitch , with one character literally tearing its body open to reveal someone of a different sex inside ( a simple yet extravagantly weird evocation of the author ' s thoughts on sexual identity ) ,
naked lunch
has become too stomach - turning and gone too far over the top to regain its initial aplomb . yet for the most part this is a coolly riveting film and even a darkly entertaining one , at least for audiences with steel nerves , a predisposition toward mr . burroughs and a willingness to meet mr . cronenberg halfway .
: burroughs always said that he would never have become a writer if not for joan ' s death . this is portrayed in the film . . . sort of .
no celebrities were harmed : lee is an obvious stand - in for burroughs himself . the film also includes two characters who are pretty clearly jack kerouac and allen ginsberg .
naked lunch is a symphony of smut ; a fever - dream of filth ; a hallucination ; a work of art . this is not a novel that charts an easy course . it is wild , erratic , crude to the extreme , and largely incomprehensible but for occasional moments of clarity . there is genius in these naked pages , a raw and fractured genius , the voice of the depraved and drug - addled , mainlined , unfiltered , directly into the vein . this lunch is opulent , sumptuous , but excessive , tainted , vomit - inducing . burroughs ' s masterpiece is certainly an experience , though not a pleasant one .
stay until you finish the book , but then come back to us ,
bill ' s friends say about his sojourn in interzone . but if the terror so slyly and sickeningly rendered in
naked lunch
is representative , it ' s a miracle that artists ever survive the creative process to come home .
but then this is true to the spirit of burroughs , whose naked lunch was first published in paris in 1959 , and sparked an american obscenity trial several years later . a hallucinogenic novel steeped in drug addiction , exaggerated violence and sexual depravity , it inhabits a kind of post - beatnik paranoia , sharp and curdled .
naked lunch ,
adapted by the dauntless david cronenberg from william s . burroughs ' s 1959 landmark novel , represents a remarkable meeting of the minds . it ' s hard to imagine another film maker who could delve so deeply into the monstrousness of mr . burroughs ' s vision , in the end coming up with a bona fide monster movie of his own . yet while mr . cronenberg ' s ingenious approach to his material matches mr . burroughs ' s flair for the grotesque , it also shares the author ' s perfect nonchalance and his ice - cold wit . seldom has a film maker offered his audience a more debonair invitation to go to hell .
in 1962 , grove press issued a promotional booklet to accompany the november 20 , 1962 american publication of ' naked lunch , ' a scarce and desirable piece of ephemera . publisher barney rosset printed the prospectus with an obscenity trial in mind , with the entire document reading like a legal argument to establish ' naked lunch ' s ' literary merit before a courtroom . the pamphlet opens with a short essay by terry southern , followed by a critical piece by e . s . seldon . the remainder of the pamphlet contains an eight page selection from the novel . a terrific piece of ephemera that is rarely offered together with the novel , and one that is essential to understanding the early publication history of ' naked lunch , ' the establishment of the book ' s critical reception , and the novel ' s many court battles over the years . to the best of our knowledge , the two essays contained within have not been printed in any other format . a superior copy of this beat generation cornerstone , and basis for the bizarre 1991 david cronenberg film starring peter weller , judy davis , and ian holm . maynard & miles a2 . b .
documents still exist in the archive of terry wilson – a friend of burroughs , gysin and balch – that let us see what the three men had in mind for filming the “unfilmable” project . through letters , screenplays and storyboards it is possible to examine the vision they had in attempting to bring naked lunch to the screen .
i personally favor the interpretation that the pages that the william lee of the movie writes on his typewriter are the pages of the real - world book naked lunch . just as burroughs was lost in a state of drug - induced hallucination , paranoia and guilt when writing the book , so is the william lee of the movie .
that shocking reality caused a furor when excerpts were published in the university of chicago ' s literary magazine in 1958 . a paris pornographer took note and published naked lunch in france the following year . then in 1962 , grove press issued the first american edition . a year later , a boston bookstore owner was arrested for selling it .
critical reception to burroughs has been varied . herbert gold , in an early assessment of naked lunch , wrote “many will be disgusted , snobs will says it’s a masterpiece , but they miss the relevance to our times . ” 2 this concisely sums up many of the problems associated with the critical reception and studies of naked lunch since — and even before — its publication , and also points towards the aims of this study : to establish the relevance of naked lunch . early objections focused on the obscenities , and the graphic sexual descriptions within the book , and the publication of the book in america prompted an obscenity trial in 1965 . 3 one of the most famous hostile responses to naked lunch was the review which appeared in the times literary supplement in 1983 . entitled “ugh…” it captured the disgust with which many greeted the work , and the reluctance to look beyond this initial first impression with impeded its reception . some have attacked it because they find the character of william burroughs himself difficult to come to terms with : being addicted to heroin for most of his life , never conforming to any normal codes of sexual conduct and the fact that he shot his common law wife perhaps make it difficult for many to consider him as a social philosopher . he is seen as representative of decadence , and therefore not an appropriate character to criticise western society .
i found this post through io9–and i was thinking , it must be st . williams burroughs week . or month . i’ve found myself obsessing over naked lunch ( and other burroughs material–like ‘the job’ ) , over the past few weeks and specifically how cronenberg deftly handles burroughs material . i’ve streamed the film several times in the past fortnight and it is standout science fiction . so is the rest of burroughs life–his tussles with scientology , cut - up methodologies , obsession with reich / orgone… what other genre could this life be ?
naked lunch was due to be shot in tangiers until the gulf war made it impossible so they recreated interzone on a canadian film set . as cronenberg rationalised , ' interzone , is , of course , a state of mind ' and exteriors never made good metaphorical stand - ins for that anyway . the cool aquamarine of bill lee ' s hotel room is a typical cronenberg interior . these are invariably lit like an operating theatre or an aquarium ( crimes of the future even had a soundtrack of dolphins and water ) .


mr. lucky is a 1943 romance film directed by h.c. potter , starring cary grant and laraine day .

it tells the story of the attraction between a shady gambler and a wealthy socialite in the days prior to the united states entering world war ii .

mr . lucky ( film )

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under - rated movies # 12 : mr . lucky ( 1943 ) ; dir . h . c . potter
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lucky lucky , played by the film’s writer and director , bari king , is an undocumented immigrant who gets enmeshed in a crime web and has to fight his way out .
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the
lucky chomps
cereal clawhauser is seen eating during his introduction is a play on the
lucky charms
cereal brand name .
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“logan lucky” is steven soderbergh’s first feature film in over four years — but before that , he was one of cinema’s most versatile filmmakers .
mr . soderbergh ultimately connected with hollywood’s leading authority on distribution : dan fellman , a former warner bros . executive who now runs a consulting business . mr . fellman , who became an executive producer on “logan lucky , ” devised a plan that mr . soderbergh liked .
the light touch prevails pretty much , so
mr . lucky
should keep you in a more or less chucklesome mood most of the time .
so far , mr . soderbergh has spent only about 15 percent of his “logan lucky” advertising budget . with only three weeks until release , studios would have typically spent 40 percent . but mr . soderbergh believes that the vast majority of marketing should come immediately before a film’s release .
mr . lucky is an entertaining cary grant movie from early part of his career . however , the film itself isn ' t strong enough to leave much of a lasting impression beyond just being an enjoyable viewing experience .
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jamie dornan and dakota johnson in the highly anticipated film , fifty shades of grey .
nov 25 , 2015 and the week after accommodate the film ' s international release .
daniel craig , left , and dwight yoakam star in “logan lucky , ” which is scheduled to open aug . 18 .
how many golden tickets has mr . wonka hidden beneath the wrappers of his chocolate bars ?
mr . lucky was an honest professional gambler who had won a plush floating casino , the ship fortuna , and used it as his base of operations . staying beyond the three - mile limit , where he could operate a gambling ship legally , mr . lucky played host to a wide variety of people , all of whom came to make use of his luxurious facility . helping him run the casino , is his good friend andamo .
character actors are a whole different category – because they don’t have to carry a film .
but first he needed a plan that satisfied his creative and economic demands . it was relatively easy to raise the $ 29 million or so needed to make “logan lucky , ” which stars channing tatum , daniel craig and riley keough . once his cast was in place — all agreeing to work for scale , with profit participation if the film succeeds — mr . soderbergh sold off overseas distribution rights , a standard practice in the independent film business . voilà : creative control over the actual film .
a crooked businessman has convicts paroled to him and then threatens to have them sent back unless they do exactly as he says - including strong - arming and murder . mr . lucky and andamo help one of the . . .
logan lucky rated pg - 13 . misty taste of moonshine , teardrops in my eye . running time : 1 hour 59 minutes .
“all of our financial interests are aligned , ” said andrew karpen , bleecker street’s chief executive . “logan lucky” will easily become mr . karpen’s biggest release to date , surpassing the thriller “ eye in the sky , ” which collected about $ 18 . 7 million last year on about 1 , 000 screens . bleecker street also has dibs on a “logan lucky” sequel .
the financial story of “logan lucky , ” which arrives in theaters on aug . 18 , starts in the fall of 2014 . according to mr . soderbergh , a “friend” asked him to read the script , about a ragtag group that robs a nascar track , and suggest a director . mr . soderbergh said he loved the idea ( ocean’s 7 - eleven , if you will ) and wanted to direct the film himself .
knife nut : possibly . it is one of the ways mr . boddy could be killed off .
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mr . lucky can be seen , now , in light of what came afterwards – as a bridge . it is the connecting link – between the screwball cary of the 1930s and the serious romantic leading man of the 1940s and beyond .
mr . lucky was an honest professional gambler who had won a plush floating casino , the ship fortuna , and used it as his base of operations . staying beyond the three - mile limit , where he . . . see full summary »
mr . lucky narrowly escapes more than one murder attempt and suspects someone wants him dead . he finds out that he ' s part of a bet , the winner gets $ 1000 for each day he lives - until he ' s killed .
honest gamblers joe adams ( alias mr . lucky ) and andamo arrive in the port of los angeles on a freighter as crewmen - broke but cheerful . they meet up with a notorious conman , help save his life and end . . .
adam driver , left , and channing tatum play brothers who hatch a plan for an elaborate heist during a nascar race in “logan lucky . ”
a warm welcome to all year 5 / 6 children and parents . in our class we are also very lucky to work with mrs wilson .
saving mr banks is a merciless film . it hits you with every sentimental low blow it can think of . then it pounds you again . and when you ' re down , it jumps on you .
film studio lionsgate will want to see an upturn in box office returns after the franchise slump of part 1 ; a timely dvd and vod release of its predecessor could help boost audiences for the final film .
kind of a bummer , but i haven’t been psyched to see a ford film in quite a while .
brittany farrell ( with megaphone ) in “whose streets ? ” the film is due out aug . 11 .
max landis of chronicle fame provided the atypical screenplay for paul mcguigan ( lucky number slevin ) to direct . theatrical showings start the week of oct 2 .
cary grant had tried , with mr . lucky , to change his light , lady’s man persona . did he succeed ? not really , perhaps . the charm , the wit , the graceful movement—there’re all still here . but his next film , the only other one he made in 1943 , would be a world war ii submarine adventure , destination tokyo . no ladies aboard there !
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
a premiere at the sundance film festival late january is expected to precede more general availability later in the year .
outdoor “logan lucky” ads are concentrated in the midwest and south . bucking studio tradition , billboards are scarce to nonexistent in cities like los angeles and new york .
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deep in the film’s screwball climax , mr fox , his son ash and sidekick kylie are careening down the road in a motorbike and sidecar , fleeing the psychopath bean . kylie glimpses something behind them and cries : “don’t turn around ! ” mr fox , a contrarian , turns around , and the bike comes to a screeching halt at the roadside .
ascent experience mount fuji — through a selection of 4 , 000 photographs snapped over 150 years . the dutch artist fiona tan has built this experimental film out of those stills . screenings at film forum in new york will be free .
lin - manuel miranda , center , and jonathan groff , right , in “hamilton , ” written by mr . miranda .
gru ( right , voiced by steve carell ) and dru ( also mr . carell ) in “despicable me 3 . ”
for mr . soderbergh , that route was a nonstarter . “you’re way too far away from your money , ” he said .
churchill brian cox may sound like a more natural fit for winston churchill than john lithgow did in “the crown , ” but can you picture john slattery ( roger sterling from “mad men” ) as dwight d . eisenhower ? both mr . cox and mr . slattery , plus miranda richardson as clementine churchill , play the famous figures in a film about the road to d - day .
in addition , mr . soderbergh , who won an academy award in 2000 for directing “traffic , ” wanted full creative control over “logan lucky” advertising . he said studios had never given him absolute say over a campaign . trailers , for instance , are tested with focus groups before they are released and often tweaked based on the responses . “it’s very difficult once you get into studio testing to push back , ” mr . soderbergh said .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
neither mr . nor mrs . bucket can accompany charlie to the factory . mr . bucket must search for work to put food on the table and mrs . bucket must care for the invalided grandparents . magically , charlie’s oldest and most beloved grandparent , grandpa joe , springs out of bed for the first time in decades . charlie’s lucky find has transformed him into an energetic and almost childlike being . grandpa joe and charlie set out on their adventure .
winning a major film deal with his first published novel , the adaptation of stedman ' s story of post - war seclusion , adoption , and attempted reintegration is being guided by derek cianfrance , co - writer and director of literary film the place beyond the pines .
“after years of shooting my mouth off about absolute creative control , we’re going to attempt to do it , ” mr . soderbergh said .
corrupt corporate executive : the north american version made mr . green an oil tycoon , making his name into a subtle pun on his wealth .
my card : parodied in the vcr mystery game . mr . green hands professor plum a card that says
lyman green , business .
i love film . i’ve always been enchanted by doing film . it’s something i grew up watching — classics and directors i admire — so that’s something i’ve always been passionate about . but today’s tv offers a world where you can play characters that you’re not having the opportunity to on film . that’s something that’s been afforded to me by this show . i get to delve into some of the most creative experience i’ve had as an actor on mr . robot . i think there’s a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television .
dean demetri martin , a former fixture of “the daily show , ” directed , wrote and stars in this film , playing an illustrator who , after his mother’s death , works through a complicated relationship with his father ( kevin kline ) . from last year’s tribeca film festival , mike hale wrote in the new york times that mr . martin “delivers a winning combination of winsomeness and rue . ” gillian jacobs and mary steenburgen also star .
score : a film music documentary going behind the scenes of how film scores are composed , this portrait of the craft features some of the most familiar “music by” credits in the business , including hans zimmer , john williams , danny elfman , quincy jones , rachel portman and thomas newman .
“logan lucky , ” which has received very strong early reviews , has also generated headlines over its script . the screenplay is credited to rebecca blunt , who does not seem to exist . who wrote it ?
the woman who left ten years ago , the filipino director lav diaz was a forbidding figure , even among extreme cinephiles . at film festivals they would ask one another in hushed tones whether they really planned to see his nine - hour “death in the land of encantos . ” lately , mr . diaz seems to have widened his appeal , earning acclaim for his dostoyevsky - inspired “norte , the end of history” and for this new drama , which won the golden lion at the venice film festival in 2016 . at nearly four hours , it is also one of mr . diaz’s shortest films .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
judy hopps • nick wilde • finnick • chief bogo • mayor lionheart • clawhauser • bellwether • yax • flash • mr . big • koslov • fru fru • mr . otterton • mrs . otterton • duke weaselton • bonnie and stu hopps • mr . manchas • gazelle • peter moosebridge • jerry jumbeaux jr . • gideon grey • nangi • doug • dr . badger • priscilla • bucky and pronk oryx - antlerson • zootopia police officers • swinton • major friedkin • fabienne growley
in transit a founding figure of the direct - cinema movement , albert maysles died in 2015 , shortly before this film’s premiere . his last feature observes the passengers on amtrak’s empire builder route , which connects chicago and the pacific northwest . mr . maysles directed with lynn true , nelson walker , ben wu and david usui .
they would raise about $ 20 million in marketing money by selling off a portion of the film’s nontheatrical rights . amazon , for instance , bought streaming rights .
now he is back — and betting that an unorthodox distribution plan for his new heist comedy , “logan lucky , ” will serve as a model for auteur directors who are as fed up with the hollywood system as he has been .
camera obscura suffering from post - traumatic stress disorder , a war photographer begins to see real premonitions of deaths in his pictures . it’s a horror film , naturally .
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a lighter touch by the censors might produce films that were more authentically chinese and artistically interesting . it would also avoid embarrassing incidents . the chinese film that has garnered most attention in the west lately is “a touch of sin” by jia zhangke—a gloomy art - house portrayal of modern china that won the award for best screenplay at cannes this year . the government has banned it from cinemas and journalists from interviewing mr jia . more westerners have probably seen reports of this in recent months than have watched a chinese film .
“we know that a lot of big - time filmmakers are watching this , ” mr . fellman said . “we want this to be the beginning of a bunch of movies . ”
terrific film . entertaining in every way . wonderful script and acting . . . unpredictable storyline kept me guessing . just loved it ! what a stellar night of . . .
clawhauser is a supporting character in the 2016 disney animated feature film zootopia . he is a member of the zootopia police department , working as a receptionist and a radio dispatcher .
as he explored options , mr . soderbergh first considered forming an alliance with the national association of theater owners , a trade organization . why not cut out distributors completely by going straight to multiplex operators ? mr . soderbergh soon realized that was not an ideal solution , in part because the justice department keeps close tabs on the adherence of theater chains to federal antitrust laws .
while he is only seen wearing his police uniform in the film , clawhauser ' s casual wear in concept art often consisted of a green shirt and blue jeans . [ 11 ]
most marquee directors hold those twin desires , but none more than steven soderbergh , the iconoclast behind “erin brockovich , ” the “ocean’s eleven” series and “sex , lies and videotape . ” exasperated by the movie business , both financially and creatively , he announced his retirement from film directing in 2011 . he said “ side effects ” in 2013 would be his last film .
icarus bryan fogel decided to try a regimen of sports doping to learn about it and to see if he would get caught . he ended up in what are said to be explosive interactions with grigory rodchenkov , who helped facilitate one of sports’ most elaborate doping schemes . ( mr . fogel helped arrange interviews with mr . rodchenkov for the new york times’s prizewinning reports on doping . )
despite the title , you don’t start out thinking of jim dixon as particularly lucky . he was low man on the totem pole at a provincial english university where the one on top , professor welch , was a quirky twit of a man — - absent - minded and egocentric with an excess of class prerogative . jim was not so lucky in love either . the woman he was with , a fellow academic , plied whatever feminine wiles were available to one with a rather plain appearance . christine , the more striking young lady jim met an
this is a very well - made and enjoyable film . while not exactly a wonderful film , it is very worth watching and an excellent example of cary grant ' s acting and charm . it ' s a wartime propaganda film that takes a different slant - - instead of being heavy - handed and centering on war , it focuses on a con man who thinks he ' s slick for avoiding the draft - - fighting is only for
suckers
. as the film progresses , his unshakable bravado suddenly becomes shaken when he meets lovely loraine day . somehow , she gets through to this charming jerk and he knows he can ' t continue as he ' s been doing . it ' s an interesting character study and a welcome change from the usual .
h . c . potter’s mr . lucky is one of cary grant’s weaker romantic - comedies . suffering from a heavy handed script , misfiring jokes and an overly earnest second half it struggles to compare with his more famous sparkling screwball comedies . grant plays a con artist and draft dodger who , in need of money to get his gambling ship up and running , attempts to swindle a war relief charity out of their hard earned money until he falls for the kindly charms of dorothy bryant .
i tend to be very unfair to comic ( humorous ) novels , i have this unreasonable demand that every page makes me laugh . quite a tall order for the poor authors i think , but i can’t help it , so i generally avoid reading comic novels . i stumbled upon an audiobook of lucky jim on youtube and thought i’d give it a go as it is often listed as one of the all - time great novels ; my aversion to comic novels notwithstanding ( freebies conquer all ) . lucky jim is the story of james dixon a history lecturer at a
lucky jim reminds me of the beatles . i like the beatles . i enjoy the beatles . i can recite all the reasons why the beatles are supposed to be the greatest , most culturally relevant rock band in history . and yet . . . as a person who grew up post - beatles , and who has heard the beatles all the time her entire life , the difference between the impact that i am told the beatles should have on me , and the actual impact that the beatles have on me , is a huge , yawning chasm of incomprehensibility . lucky jim
now established as a major name in both fiction and film , flynn ' s second adaptation comes hot on the heels of gone girl , again a murder mystery concerned with the fallibility of human witness .
mr fox stares with a look of childlike bewilderment into the distance , as the film’s sounds die out . from his pov we see his familiar bucolic terrain fading into a horizon of icy mountains , miles and miles away . we hear the delicate sound of a mournful choir and we see what mr fox has spotted : a giant black wolf , unclothed but for shaggy pelt , staring back at him from the crest of a jagged rock . foxy bellows a few absurd pleasantries at the wolf ; no answer . “i have a phobia of wolves , ” he yells finally , desperately , at his distant relative . no answer .
corrupt church : reverend green ( the implications of this don ' t sit well for american audiences , supposedly , which is why he ' s turned into a corrupt corporate executive
mr . green
) .
in 2012 concept art for the film , clawhauser was a tabby cat named hugo , and wore the shirt that was eventually given to nick wilde . [ 3 ] he was eventually changed to a cheetah .
the standard option for a wide release , meaning at least 2 , 500 locations in north america on opening weekend , involves renting a major studio’s machinery . a studio like warner bros . foots the marketing bill ( about $ 40 million is standard for a production like “logan lucky” ) and handles all aspects of the release . for its services , the studio collects a fee ( roughly 15 percent of total ticket sales ) and deducts its expenses . any remaining profit goes to the owners of the film .
in response to questions about the screenplay’s author , mr . soderbergh said in an email , “clarify ? me ? why would i do that ? i can tell you that rebecca blunt is enjoying all this immensely . ”
9 . northanger abbey , 2007 ( itv movies ) a sliver of a film based on austen’s zippy send - up of the gothic novel . social intrigue and a visit to a spooky abbey are seen through the wide eyes of catherine morland who naively believes life is like her favorite books , with a mystery behind every curtain . it’s a perfect rainy day film — and , ahem , a commentary on overzealous fandom .
although the single - volume books mr . mercedes and the mist have provided enough material for full television series , the massive dark tower series—beginning in 1982 and spanning over 4 , 000 pages—notoriously eluded adaptation until this year , when a dark tower film is finally hitting theaters . with a budget of $ 66 million and two a - list actors headlining— idris elba and matthew mcconaughey —it’s perhaps the highest - profile king project this year .
ever hear of rhyming slang ? well , if you haven ' t , get set to have your ears assailed by a torrent of this colorful gibberish in
mr . lucky ,
which moved into the radio city music hall yesterday . it ' s bewildering , but it ' s fun . want to ponder a sample ? says cary grant to a wide - eyed , uncomprehending laraine day :
hand me the fiddle - and - flute ; get your titfor - tat .
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how this whole thing works out – how the plot untangles itself – is something you’ll just have to see for yourself . i thought i knew where the film was going – but the ending is actually quite a surprise , and i found myself suddenly quite moved by it . it has the feeling of inevitablity – like the film has been moving towards it all along – and yet somehow it still packed a huge punch .
jesús after committing an assault , a teenager ( nicolás durán ) in santiago is forced to confront his father ( alejandro goic ) in a film inspired by a real - life hate crime in chile in 2012 .
satanic rituals desk , the new york review of books , new york :
tremble , mortal ! thou has summoned belphegor , lord of the opening , prince of hell . what wouldst thou ask of the demon of discovery ?
oh mighty belphegor , the time has come to plan nyrb ' s fall 2012 lineup . what would you have us publish , lord ?
lucky jim .
beg pardon ?
lucky jim . kingsley amis . always wanted to read it .
but - - but , lord ! hasn ' t penguin classics already published it ?
i care not .
but . . . what i mean to say , master , is that lucky jim is hardly the most obscure book out there . amis wrote a lot more , too . wouldn ' t it be better to reprint his more forgotten stuff ?
good idea . publish them too .
what ?
ten books by kingsley amis . lucky jim plus nine more over the next few years . i ' m tellin ' ya , it ' ll be great .
i hear and obey , my lord .
makes sense to me .
mr . kail beautifully sustains this sense of collective lives in motion throughout . it feels right that while the numbers here have been scaled up and shined up for a big broadway house ( mr . odom’s jivey “the room where it happens , ” a wicked meditation on being a political outsider , is now a full - fledged showstopper ) , you never feel that any single performer is pushing for a breakout moment . well , with one exception .
then they would make an atypical distribution deal with bleecker street media , an upstart with a total staff of about 20 . bleecker street would execute the marketing campaign — with mr . soderbergh approving everything — and receive a token fee of less than $ 1 million . if the film hit certain box office thresholds , bleecker street would receive a slice of ticket sales . bleecker street would also participate in other revenue streams , including dvd sales .
production is underway on the audience network series “mr . mercedes , ” and people of all ages and types are needed and can submit by email to be considered for work as a paid extras . the show is based on the stephen king novel about a psychopathic killer who drives his mercedes into a crowd . he later [ . . . ] the post casting call for steven king series ‘ mr . mercedes ’ season 2 appeared first on acting auditions .
gotti john gotti , the crime boss and “first media don , ” was already the focus of a 1996 tv movie , in which he was played by armand assante . in this theatrical film , which covers 30 years in his life , john travolta assumes impersonation duties , as he did for robert shapiro . mr . travolta’s wife , kelly preston , plays gotti’s . the screenwriters are lem dobbs ( “the limey” ) and the character actor leo rossi .
hearing is believing the star of this documentary is rachel flowers , who was born prematurely and went blind , but learned to play music and grew into a vibrant performer . the film follows two years in her family’s life .
after the harrowing industrial tale serena was turned into a film in 2014 ( early 2015 for us audiences ) , ron rash ' s earlier 2006 novel of american historical fiction is expanded from an o . henry prize story .
mr . soderbergh noted that the box office bar for success is lower under this setup . with nearly everything prepaid , and no hefty distributor fees coming off the top , even a modest $ 15 million opening would be a win .
all about the money a man who goads his friends into vacationing in colombia has an ulterior motive : he wants to claim the bounty on a drug dealer . this comedy stars eddie griffin and blake freeman ; mr . freeman directs .
in the latin american spanish version of the film , his last name is
garraza
, a play on the words
garra
( claw ) and
garza
, a spanish surname of galician and basque origin .
dawson city : frozen time in the silent era , the gold rush town of dawson city in the yukon was the last stop on the film - shipping circuit . the creative solutions used to dispose of flammable nitrate stock resulted in the inadvertent preservation of 500 films — forgotten reels were excavated in the 1970s . bill morrison ( the found - footage collage “decasia” ) uses those clips to tell a story that interweaves film history and a sociological history of dawson .
this month’s austenland stars keri russell as a drippy jane austen fanatic who shells out her savings for an immersive regency experience — complete with fake proposals and , at least for our heroine , real romance . it’s the latest entry in an austen film canon that includes period adaptations , modern updates , and meta - films about contemporary janeites , unhappy in love , who yearn for a simpler and more corseted time — or perhaps just for colin firth as mr . darcy .
18 . austenland , 2013 i’m loath to disparage a film that’s slapsticky and well - intentioned . unfortunately , this movie — which bears the producing imprint of vampire virtuoso stephenie meyer — has almost no direct jokes , references , or ideas about jane austen , beyond a love interest who , like mr . darcy , is rude . moreover , it seems to suggest that austen fans are all lovelorn spinster types with teacup collections and the hots for anything male in breeches .
mr fox sits down to breakfast . he’s turned his back on a life of crime and now works as a columnist on a local newspaper . he wears a tie to work , he drops french aphorisms into conversation ; he’s upwardly mobile .
“i understand why they resist new ideas , ” mr . soderbergh said . “with so much money at stake , it’s hard to sit in that room and say , sure , let’s jump off a cliff and try a whole new approach . ”
ghostly goals : the early 2000 ' s computer version ( distributed in boxes of cereal ) had the murderer , location , and weapon cards secreted away by mr . boddy ' s ghost ( a pair of hands glowing with blue fire ) .
of the three movies released this summer that self - consciously reactivate an old - school outlaw mythology — the others are edgar wright’s “baby driver” and josh and benny safdie’s “good time” — this one has the most to say and the least to prove . whereas the other directors aggressively promote their own coolness , flaunting borrowed attitudes and showy retrofitted styles , mr . soderbergh revels in squareness , and in a loose self - confidence that disguises its mastery . “logan lucky” is a terrific movie . that’s a matter of skill , and maybe also of luck . but mostly it’s a matter of generosity .
“i was also very adamant about the trailer , ” mr . soderbergh said . “i wanted it to feel like a throwback and not seem like it gave away all the jokes . ” he said the trailer was not tested with a focus group .
satanic rituals desk , the new york review of books , new york :
tremble , mortal ! thou has summoned belphegor , lord of the opening , prince of hell . what wouldst thou ask of the demon of discovery ?
oh mighty belphegor , the time has come to plan nyrb ' s fall 2012 lineup . what would you have us publish , lord ?
lucky jim .
beg pardon ?
lucky jim . kingsley amis . always wanted to read it .
but - - but , lord ! hasn ' t penguin classics already published it ?
i care not .
but . . . what i mean to say , master , is tha
14 . miss austen regrets , 2008 ( bbc film ) the creators of this sometimes dull , sometimes diverting biopic thankfully didn’t invent a great love for the never - married author . warning : contains scenes of austen’s final illness that will leave fans sobbing .
the film is a touching coming - of - age tale and an even more touching account of an unlikely friendship marked by love and respect . beresford , working with material that inevitably recalls his oscar - winning driving miss daisy , never lets the overt sentimentality become too schmaltzy , even if he ' s a bit hampered by the sometimes melodramatic plotting and schematic characterizations . the film is emotionally manipulative , to be sure , but it ' s ultimately hard to resist , especially given the quality of the lead performances .
“i have a phobia of wolves , ” is how mr fox pretentiously puts it ; he says it often . what he means is , as a civilised canine , he is afraid of the primal animal that lurks beneath his gorgeous corduroy suit : his ravenous appetites , his selfishness , the danger he poses to his loved ones . i cannot imagine a more ambitious nor a more valuable subject for an animated family film – the war we’re all quietly fighting , perhaps especially as children , with the fact that we are primates .
films often do seem cursed , not just by their own overconfidence or stupidity , but by coincidence , misunderstanding or fate . things go well enough early on in
logan lucky
that you start wondering about the movie ' s point of view on destiny , bad mojo , and the like . is the movie ' s title sincere , ironic , or neither ?
harmonium a prizewinner at cannes , koji fukada’s film captures the ripple effects on one family after the father ( kanji furutachi ) invites an acquaintance ( tadanobu asano ) , a recent ex - convict , to work with him in the garage next to his home .
stranger things and mr . mercedes actor peyton wich has been cast in sony ' s goosebumps 2 , joining wendi mclendon - covey , ken jeong , chris parnell , madison iseman , ben o ' brien , caleel harris , and jeremy ray taylor . ari sandel is developing this latest version based on the popular book series by r . l . stine . rob lieber penned the screenplay for the sequel , which will open in theaters october 12 . neal h . moritz is producing the pic under his original film shingle , along with…
regarded by many as the finest , and funniest , comic novel of the twentieth century , lucky jim remains as trenchant , withering , and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954 . this is the story of jim dixon , a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice
mr . willy wonka , the eccentric owner of the greatest chocolate factory in the world , has decided to open the doors of his factory to five lucky children and their parents . in order to choose who will enter the factory , mr . wonka devises a plan to hide five golden tickets beneath the wrappers of his famous chocolate bars . the search for the five golden tickets is fast and furious . augustus gloop , a corpulent child whose only hobby is eating , unwraps the first ticket , for which his town throws him a parade . veruca salt , an insufferable brat , receives the next ticket from her father , who had employed his entire factory of peanut shellers to unwrap chocolate bars until they found a ticket . violet beauregarde discovers the third ticket while taking a break from setting a world record in gum chewing . the fourth ticket goes to mike teavee , who , as his name implies , cares only about television .
you may also wonder if this is the kind of film that believes in curses . some films do , some don ' t , and others leave you guessing . there are no curses in
the sting
or
ocean’s eleven ,
but characters in coen brothers
“the question is this , ” he said . “can you do what the studios normally do from a wide distribution standpoint , only with a lot fewer resources — spending on marketing — and with a much better economic structure for the people who actually made the film ? ”
“logan lucky , ” steven soderbergh’s gravity - defying , ridiculously entertaining new film — one that ends a blessedly brief retirement from big - screen directing — concerns itself with a desperate attempt to even the odds . it’s a caper movie , a modern - day robin hood tale organized around an elaborate , improbable but curiously plausible heist . a gang that includes a wounded veteran , an unemployed former coal miner , a hairdresser and other motley members of the noncoastal nonelite conspires to knock over a nascar race sponsored by coca - cola . the event sucks a lot of cash from people like them , and the thieves quite literally set out to suck it right back up .
novelization : there ' s a series of books based on the game . all of them give clues in the story and invite the reader to try to guess who did whatever crime occurred in the story . the crimes ranged from figuring out who stole something , to figuring out who ate a piece of pie , to ( at least once per book as the grand finale ) trying to find out who murdered mr . boddy . status quo is god in these stories , so mr . boddy would always somehow survive and the criminal would either be forgiven or undiscovered entirely .
david burris makes his debut as a feature film director with jeremy irvine of steven spielberg ' s war horse as high school drop - out travis and noah wyle ( spielberg tv project falling skies ) the ex - teacher with a sideline in drug dealing who takes him in .
it ' s been four years since eddie murphy ' s last movie ( the execrable a thousand words ) and a decade since his last worthwhile performance ( his oscar - nominated role in dreamgirls ) . but those who ' ve dismissed him for his slapdash paycheck comedies will be eating their words after seeing his sensitive dramatic work in bruce beresford ' s new indie drama receiving its world premiere at the tribeca film festival . playing the title role of mr . church , murphy delivers the sort of superb character turn that may well mark a sea change in his career .
it comes at night reviewing the domestic - discord drama “krisha , ” the debut feature of trey edward shults , last year , manohla dargis wrote that the film’s opening shot made it feel like a horror movie . mr . shults makes good on that promise with his second feature — an actual horror movie , in which a patriarch ( joel edgerton ) , determined to protect his wife and son from a threat outside , must decide what to do about another family that comes a - knockin’ . with riley keough , carmen ejogo and christopher abbott ( “james white” ) .
cast : cary grant ( joe ) , laraine day ( dorothy ) , charles bickford ( swede ) , gladys cooper ( capt . steadman ) , alan carney ( the crunk ) , hanry stephenson ( mr . bryant ) , paul stewart ( zepp ) , kay johnson ( mrs . ostrander )
lemon this year’s designated sundance squirm comedy stars brett gelman ( who wrote the script with his wife , the film’s director , janicza bravo ) as a 40 - year - old drama teacher who alienates everyone around him . judy greer , michael cera and gillian jacobs endure his disagreeable behavior .
wild ill at ease with civilized life , ania ( lilith stangenberg ) forges what becomes an increasingly close and physical bond with a wolf . if festival reviews are any indication , the film is poised somewhere between a tall tale and a provocative social commentary . nicolette krebitz wrote and directed .
american influence in china’s film business is nothing new . “everything we learned , we learned from hollywood , ” says yu dong , the boss of bona film group , one of china’s largest independent studios . in some ways china’s movie industry resembles 1930s hollywood , when studios controlled all business lines—from talent to production to theatres—before a 1948 supreme court ruling forced them to divest . in china , this is called “being a dragon from head to tail” . huayi brothers , one of china’s largest studios , whose name evokes the fraternal warners , oversees actors , production , distribution and cinemas .
but the big difference is in the location of power . in america power lies with the studios ; in china with the state . the government controls which films are made and has a hand in every aspect of the film business , from production to exhibition . china film group produces movies and distributes hollywood and chinese films . the government rewards independent producers for making films it approves of—desen international media , a production company , received a bonus of 3m yuan for “full circle” , which promoted filial piety , for instance—and blocks hollywood films during national holidays , to help chinese ones .
the cast features a number of familiar faces , including henry stephenson ( sir macefield in the charge of the light brigade ) as dorothy’s grandfather and gladys cooper ( bette davis’ mother in now , voyager ) and mary forbes ( lady agatha in the picture of dorian gray ) as war relief volunteers . walter kingsford ( dr . carew in the dr . kildare series ) is mr . hargraves and j . m . kerrigan ( the slave - seller gallegher in gone with the wind ) is mcdougal , one of the victims of joe’s coin trick , which will feature in the film’s final scene .
moscow never sleeps an irish filmmaker , johnny o’reilly , pays tribute to his adopted city of moscow with this ensemble film . the trailer at least paints a much sunnier view of the city than russian imports usually do . aleksey serebryakov ( the protagonist of “leviathan” ) is in the large cast .
like fellow young adult fiction film versions the hunger games , harry potter and twilight , the series ' third book will be split into two parts , arriving in march of 2016 and 2017 respectively . march 20 , 2015 , marks the week for divergent trilogy fans to stake out local multiplexes .
awakening the zodiac shane west and leslie bibb play a couple who find a 40 - year - old film reel that they believe was shot by the zodiac killer in california . they try to sleuth him out . this displeases the zodiac killer , who is probably a member of aarp by now .
in recent years the worlds of tv and books have merged more than ever before , with such viral television hits as “ game of thrones , ” “the handmaid’s tale” and “ big little lies ” all being based on novels . what does renowned author stephen king , who penned the crime novel that was adapted into audience network ’s “ mr . mercedes , ” think about the ever - expanding tv world ? “i’ve always been a fan of episodic television’s ability to tell a story with texture and depth — following a novelistic arc , ” king confesses in a secret letter that was delivered to the tv academy membership via the show’s emmy fyc mailer . see stephen king’s ‘mr . mercedes’ : return to emmys for david e . kelley ? “i think the two mediums are a natural and complementary fit , ” king continues . “so , i am especially pleased with this adaptation of ‘mr . mercedes’ — and i hope you enjoy it too .
robertson , so impressive in last year ' s disney misfire tomorrowland , delivers a beautifully modulated performance here : radiant as a lovestruck teen ; poignantly moving as a daughter helplessly watching her mother slip away ; and convincingly gritty as a struggling single mom , she sustains the film through its myriad emotional phases .
the survivalist a standout at the 2015 tribeca film festival , stephen fingleton’s debut feature is a terse portrait of life in a postapocalyptic wood . martin mccann is the title character , who lives alone and fends off all comers until two women ( mia goth and olwen fouéré ) turn up at his doorstep .
: well , more like
localization name change .
a few different characters and other elements had their names changed between different versions , particularly between the uk and us version ( s ) : murder victim dr . black became mr . boddy ; his home , tudor house , became boddy manor ; reverend green became
afterimage the polish director andrzej wajda , who died at 90 in october , grappled one last time with his country’s history in his final film , a portrait of the painter wladyslaw strzeminski ( boguslaw linda ) , who pushed back against the postwar communist regime’s mandates for art and sacrificed his career as a result .
director gurinder chadha married english lit with bollywood , focusing on a cross - cultural romance between arrogant american hotelier will darcy and feisty indian farmer’s daughter lalita bakshi ( aishwarya rai ) . appropriately over - the - top musical numbers can’t obscure chadha’s genuine homage to austen , and to the film traditions she loves .
having added theatrical performances and indie movie credentials to his resume since the harry potter days , daniel radcliffe appears a sound choice for a film whose main role is not that of the eponymous scientist nor his monstrous invention but the hunched assistant igor in this alternative retelling of mary shelley ' s classic horror novel .
most chinese movies lose money : only around a quarter make it into theatres , and piracy means there is no legitimate dvd market . but then many films in hollywood and elsewhere are unprofitable these days : according to a report by the british film institute earlier this month , only 7 % of british films turn a profit . chinese people like films and they like to gamble , so money is racing into the movie business . in september , for instance , wang jianlin , china’s richest man , announced he would build the world’s largest film - studio complex , for an estimated $ 8 . 2 billion , in qingdao .


padaharella ammayi ( english : sixteen years girl ) is a 1986 telugu , comedy film , produced by r. d. reddy on sri sailaja films banner and directed by p. s. krishna mohan reddy .

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having started his career in 1977 rajendra prasad acted as a sidekick in many movies till ladies tailor arrived . after its success he started acting as a comedy hero .
cast : murali mohan , saritha , allu ramalingaiah , nirmala , sri sailaja , jaya vijaya , chakravarthi dialogues and lyrics : athreya music : ms viswanathan cinematography : raghunatha reddy editing : nr kittu art : mohan presenter : murali mohan director : ns mani supervising director : k . balachander banner : kalakendra movies release date : 8 may
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directed by ps krishna mohan reddy , starring gadde rajendra prasad and sudha in the lead roles .
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