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Naked Lunch

Opens on August 15

The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve.  For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats.  Screening will begin promptly at midnight.

Director: David Cronenberg Run Time: 115 min. Release Year: 1991

Starring: Ian Holm, Judy Davis, Julian Sands, Peter Weller, Roy Scheider

David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch isn’t just an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ infamous novel—it’s a hallucinatory biographical fantasia, blending Burroughs’ life, addiction, and text into one grotesque and exhilarating fever dream. And now it’s been restored in a brand new 4K restoration!

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work — which he doesn’t remember writing.

Starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider—and featuring otherworldly creature effects by Chris Walas (The Fly)—Naked Lunch is Cronenberg at his most cerebral and disturbing.

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