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In the following review, Lyons examines the typewriter imagery in Naked Lunch.
The typewriter is a lonely place. The typewriter is also a doorway into a crowded theater of beings from the Id that, if ...
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In the following review, Taubin argues that Cronenberg’s adaptation of Naked Lunch does not sufficiently recreate the homoerotic elements presented in William Burroughs's novel.
Naked Lu...
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In the following interview, Jaehne talks with Cronenberg about the making of Naked Lunch, particularly how the film tackled the difficult, then-taboo subject matter found in William Burroughs's...
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In the following review, Billson writes that despite the good acting in Naked Lunch, the film contains “an excess of refinement.”
David Cronenberg loves gloop. Some critics have interpre...
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Critical Review by Donald Lyons
