Are You Lonely Tonight: Katrin Cartlidge in Naked
By July 21, 2011
Film Info
- United Kingdom
- 1993
- 131 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- English
- Spine #307
The brilliant and controversial Naked, from director Mike Leigh, stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself around London on a nocturnal odyssey, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances from Thewlis and costars Katrin Cartlidge and Lesley Sharp, Leigh’s depiction of England’s underbelly is an amalgam of black comedy and doomsday prophecy that took the best director and best actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
| Johnny | David Thewlis |
| Louise | Lesley Sharpe |
| Sophie | Katrin Cartlidge |
| Jeremy | Greg Cruttwell |
| Sandra | Claire Skinner |
| Brian | Peter Wight |
| Archie | Ewen Bremner |
| Maggie | Susan Vidler |
| Woman in the window | Deborah MacLaren |
| Café girl | Gina McKee |
| Masseuse | Carolina Giammetta |
| Giselle | Elizabeth Berrington |
Credits
| Director | Mike Leigh |
| Screenplay | Mike Leigh |
| Producer | Simon Channing-Williams |
| Director of photography | Dick Pope |
| Editor | Jon Gregory |
| Costumes | Lindy Hemming |
| Music | Andrew Dickson |
| Production design | Alison Chitty |
| Art director | Eve Stewart |
| Casting | Paddy Stern and Susie Parriss |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Mike Leigh, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary by Leigh and actors David Thewlis and Katrin Cartlidge
- New video interview with director Neil LaBute
- Episode of the BBC program The Art Zone in which author Will Self interviews Leigh
- The Short and Curlies, a short comedy from 1987 directed by Leigh and starring Thewlis, with audio commentary by Leigh
- Original theatrical trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by film critics Derek Malcolm and Amy Taubin
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