As I understand it, David Cronenberg's version of Naked Lunch
incorporates numerous components from various different Burrough
novels. IMHO Certainly an interesting effort to confront the
challenges of creating a narrative to film a (nearly)  unfilmable
novel.

>Chris Ames requests:
>
>>I'm wondering if anyone out
>>  there can think of other films made from multiple short stories woven
>>  together.  I know there are some films of Poe stories that divcide a feature
>>  film into three segments, but I'm thinking more of Altman's particular
>>  approach of using several stories by the same writer as the source for a
>>  screenplay.  I'm not interested here in films that are made from a single
>  > short story, of which, of course, there are many.  Thanks for your help,
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