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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I'll have to check out the two adapted films: Spider and Crash. I read Naked Lunch (which I didn't really care for), when it was fashionable for a horny teenager to read that and The Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy, by Henry Miller. I still like Henry Miller. A wonderful writer keyed in to the repressed sexuality (still present) in the American culture.
Thanks for the heads up on those two films.
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I'd say you owe it to yourself to try the Naked Lunch movie. Cronenberg made it partly because it is unfilmable, same reason he made Crash. There was a funny interview with Cronenberg where he discussed talking to Burroughs and getting his permission to make changes to Naked Lunch, like trying to have an actual plot
Any Cronenberg movie is worth watching. If you haven't seen his early horror movies, especially The Brood, Videodrome, Scanners, The Dead Zone you should.
His later movies, I'd recommend M. Butterfly, Existenz, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises (I haven't seen the four he's made since Eastern Promises, so I am not saying they aren't worth watching).