Keyword results: David Cronenberg

Naked Lunch (1991)

27th Jun 07

Biopics are perhaps the suckiest genre in all of cinema. Interesting lives almost never translate to interesting cinema, and their main appeal is showing one famous person pretend to be another famous person, like a celebrity drag-show. So why is the hallucinatory biopic of cult author William Burroughs, NAKED LUNCH, so good?

Director David Cronenberg takes Burroughs’ life and runs it through the filter of Burroughs’ fiction.

Read more

Random Entries:

monkii.com