Naked Lunch 1991 David Cronenberg’s free riff as much on William S. Burroughs as on his novel of which I remember absolutely nothing nor am I familiar with the author’s life, but that seems to be the consensus of the reviews I have read. Having seen the remarkable Video Drome I can say that much of the same type of hallucinatory images are to be found in this film but without the sinister implications, and in a way prescience, of Video Drome . This film has an excellent score of somewhat hysterical jazz solos while the studio scenes of Tangier, while clearly fake, compliment the unreality of the script.

Bill Lee (Peter Weller) and Joan Frost/Lee (Judy Davis) share an interesting moment.