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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