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Naked Lunch (film) critical and satirical novel into a conventional bildungsroman. The film has been selected for a Criterion Collection release, an organization that releases high quality DVDs for important classic and contemporary films. At the 13th Genie Awards, "Naked Lunch" received 11 nominations and was perceived as being in an unusually tight competition with Jean-Claude Lauzon's "Léolo". The film also competed for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. In "The Simpsons" episode "Bart on the Road", Bart, Nelson, and Milhouse use Bart's fake driver's license to get into the theatre to see an adult film. The film they choose, based