Really?? I always thought a closer adaptation of the novel would've made a better movie, and I wish Cronenberg had been more faithful to the novel and less to the stylistic methods used in the novel...(Cronenberg's adaptation applied the novel's mosaic approach to a range of Burroughs's works, but this introduced a critical self-awareness that always came across as a little too self-consciously clever for me). Aww, well. Whatever else you can say about him, Cronenberg certainly knows how to make a cool-looking bug. >David Cronenberg's version of Naked Lunch...IMHO Certainly an >interesting >effort to confront the challenges of creating a narrative >to film a >(nearly) unfilmable novel. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu