Naked Lunch 1991 REMUX 4K Ultra HD 2160p HDR HEVC BLURAY UHD - Review
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee (Peter Weller) and his dead-eyed wife, Joan (Judy Davis), like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider), 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.
Release date: January 1, 1991 (USA)
Director: DAVID CRONENBERG
Story by: William S. Burroughs
Adapted from: Naked Lunch
Budget: $16–18 million
Cinematography Peter Suschitzky
Starring: Peter Weller Judy Davis Ian Holm Julian Sands Roy Scheider
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/
Video:
Naked Lunch was shot on 35mm film using Panavision cameras and for this release has had a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative overseen by director of photography Peter Suschitzky and approved by director David Cronenberg, from which this UHD is sourced. The disc presents a native 3840 x 2160p resolution image, in the widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio, use 10-bit video depth, High Dynamic Range (HDR), a Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) and is encoded using the HEVC (H.265) codec for Dolby Vision and HDR10.As Sam mentioned in his review of the Arrow Limited Edition, the film elements were scanned in Toronto with Turbine doing the conforming and color grading with the final results approved by David Cronenberg. Effectively the transfer for this disc is identical - and it’s beautiful. I’m not one to often pull this movie off the shelf, definitely one I need to be in the right mood for, but the immaculate details, natural film grain, and those eerie olive-toned colors were just too impressive not to get sucked into. From the facial features to the film's impeccable production design and the wildly hallucinogenic creatures, everything is on display. And as Sam mentioned with the Dolby Vision grading (HDR10 is also available), those yellow-golden tones are vivid and clear with reds and blues getting their moments to shine. Black levels are excellent allowing for the shadows of all the different seedy creepy locations to fully envelope the imagery with an impressive sense of depth and dimension. Whites are crisp and immaculate. The old Criterion Blu-ray was always a highlight release in my opinion and a tough act to follow, but after seeing an archival print screened a few years ago and now this new 4K UHD disc, this transfer is the clear winner of the hour. With Cronenberg’s love for practical effects and interesting imagery, this is another great-looking release that lets you pause and appreciate the artistry that went into making this film.
Audio:
The DTS-HD MA 2.0 track does a terrific job of getting its information across; the dialogue is prioritised with good balance and layering given to the score and effects. Bass is tight and holds everything well, with the whole being clean and natural.The DTS-HD MA 5.1 track, however, is an altogether different beast, it is immediately wider in both separation and depth, giving a real sense of space. Dialogue is again prioritised to the frontal array with plenty of ambience (the various street markets for example) from the surround channels really opening up the surround field. The score makes good use of all the speakers, placing you in the centre of the action, while bass is tight, controlled and gives some significance to the effects without being overbearing. I much preferred it to the 2.0, due to the amount of space and headroom it gave the surround scape.
For this release of Naked Lunch, we get German & English DTS-HD MA 2.0 and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio tracks. Being a German company, Deutsch is the default audio so you English speakers will need to zip into the main menu and change that over. Now - I’ve recently come to learn that the DTS-HD MA 5.1 track featured on the 4K and Blu-ray discs for this release is not the same as what is on Arrow’s disc. From what I’ve come to understand while working to improve the German language tracks, Turbine went in and punched up the DTS-HD MA 5.1 while they were at it. I don’t have the Arrow release on hand as of yet, so I can’t immediately compare the two, but taken as its own experience it’s a very strong surround mix. The surround channels are subtle as much of the film is front/center focused but there are engaging audio effects and Howard Shore’s score to give a very satisfying immersive soundscape experience. Busier sequences in bars or street locations have a more pronounced surround presence, but even in quieter moments, I felt like there was ample activity in the channels. On top of this option, there is the DTS-HD MA 2.0 Surround track that is very good in its own right and probably gives you something a little closer to the original Dolby Stereo theatrical experience. It sounds a little tighter and a little more “present” if you will, but both audio options are dynamite. So depending on how you’re set up at home, both tracks should easily whisk you way to the Interzone.
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00:02:26.938 : en:"Exterminate All Rational Thought"
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00:36:18.677 : en:"Words To Live By"
00:40:13.578 : en:Tom And Joan Frost
00:46:40.589 : en:Yves Cloquet
00:52:10.544 : en:The Martinelli
00:57:44.044 : en:Fadela
01:07:42.392 : en:"An Unconscious Agent"
01:13:57.016 : en:Naked Lunch
01:20:31.076 : en:The Mugwriter
01:28:45.362 : en:"A Sound You Could Smell"
01:31:56.886 : en:Kiki And The Parrot
01:38:54.387 : en:The End Of The Clark Nova
01:40:51.837 : en:The Mugwump Dispensary
01:48:21.537 : en:"Welcome To Annexia"
01:51:28.724 : en:Closing Credits
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