^also adolescent in its core
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
checked Cosmopolis out of the library; it reads like a script.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
Some dick is remaking Videodrome.
http://twitchfilm.com/news/2012/08/videodrome-remake-cronenberg-berg.php
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
script by the guy who wrote the Transformers movies.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
They are the new flesh.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
it's not even just that semi-talented people are remaking once-untouchable movies now, it's also that they're remaking movies to look more like video games, yet we can't even play our way through the emotionally bereft slickness, so, seriously, they should just fuck off with this
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
if there's no market for a Total Recall remake and I don't see why anyone would think there would be one for Videodrome.
Still: Who is today's Debbie Harry equivalent that they should cast for the role?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
I would play a Videodrome point and click adventure
― Number None, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
point and squick
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, August 22, 2012 5:12 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
there sort of is a market for a total recall remake... just not a $200 million one.
― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
They'd probably swap Debbie Harry for Lady Gaga or Nicki Minaj or other misc pop singer that likes to give crazy wide eyes in front of fish eye lenses.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
saw Cosmopolis today, and may have been too tired and distracted to really get into it, but it was certainly compelling at points. I felt like the claustrophobic style was obviously motivated but it sure was exhausting and even a little boring. I was even spacing off during the final bit before the credits! (again that's probably my fault)
I did like the sense that it was about a guy having a total mental/life breakdown and keeping this odd composure through it all. I liked the dialogues...i liked how they portrayed how people talk when they are over-consuming information. they sorta talk AT each other.
― ryan, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
i was sorta hoping for a movie of impending doom and dread and pessimism, but for all that certainly being there i didn't feel it much. maybe that makes it that much more despairing?
― ryan, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
Crash is his last great movie, among the ones I've seen.
― Eric H., Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:31 PM (1 week ago)
yah, up until crash I had seen all his films save m butterfly, and crash felt like the logical end to what he was doing - science fiction made not with technology but with actual human behavior. one of my favorite directors, and I practically ignored him after that, have only seen a history of violence. I'm glad he's been able to build a successful career making movies that would end the careers of others, tho.
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 27 August 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
You're in a good spot, though, now. You're in the Woody Allen zone – you keep your budgets low, you get enough dough back in Europe, the people in the US that dig it dig it and then you make the next one.
That's true, and every time I've tried to play with the studios it's never worked out. I don't blame them or me, it's the mix of sensibilities is not there, we don't fit. Listen, I see some big movies and I think “Oh, it would be fun to make that, challenging.” Then reality sets in and it's not going to happen. Your estimation of where I'm at with filmmaking is pretty accurate....
I'm usually reluctant to include deleted scenes. They're deleted for a reason....
Have you seen the new High Frame Rate that Peter Jackson used for The Hobbit?
No, though you see it on television all the time. Sports shows are 60 frames. Those flawless slo-mo playbacks with no smearing. I haven't seen The Hobbit yet, but I do believe it would be nice to get away from 24 frames per second — even just to 30 frames per second. I don't have a nostalgic longing to stick with the smearing or strobing you get when you pan with a film camera. It's not nice. It comes from ancient technology that we don't need anymore. Even upping to 30 might get rid of that, I don't know why 48 as opposed to 50 or 60, frankly. In a weird way, 48, as double of 24, is still clinging to the old technology.
http://movieline.com/2012/12/31/david-cronenberg-talks-cosmopolis-high-frame-rates-and-bullshit-oscars/
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
OW! Oh, crap, the cat just jumped on me.
I like cats.
Yeah, he's adorable, but very heavy.
quality journalism here
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
I like cats too
― CGI fridays (Edward III), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
it's so strange how journalism keeps getting worse as journalists' paychecks and job prospects keep getting smaller
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
oh no... 3 senteneces about cats... journalisms dead... stfu
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
no... please DON'T stfu. i'm talkin to you, Poliopolice!
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
tell me more about the state of journalism in 2013, damn it!
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
so I hafta quit film threads for the year too, huh
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe you guys hate cats like that
― CGI fridays (Edward III), Thursday, 3 January 2013 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
next one w/ Weisz, Viggo, Pattinson
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/rachel-weisz-joins-david-cronenbergs-maps-to-the-stars-with-robert-pattinson-viggo-mortensen-20121107
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Don't get us excited if you don't mean really it
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 4 January 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
try to get shakey to do it
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 January 2013 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks to the Red Sox, I was able to see Dead Ringers last night. Cronenberg was there to introduce it (with Jeremy Irons), and Irons stayed for a Q&A afterwards--very funny. (First comment: "That's a strange film, isn't it?")
I've always thought it a masterful film--I checked upthread, and I named it as one of my two or three favourites--and I still do. Very sad, too--I was really struck by the sadness of the opening credits this time. I will say, though, that it's the beginning of a certain hollowness that made so many of the Cronenberg films that came after a disappointment for me. I prefer The Dead Zone and The Fly. I'd have to take some time to find the right words to explain that, because the tone of Dead Ringers is perfect throughout.
― clemenza, Friday, 1 November 2013 12:22 (ten years ago) link
I am ashamed it took me so long, but I watched Dead Ringers for the first time last night.
― mh, Friday, 1 November 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Any Toronto people going to the Cronenberg exhibit at TIFF? http://tiff.net/cronenberg
― Dan I., Friday, 1 November 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
I am not a Toronto person but that looks really tempting
― mh, Friday, 1 November 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Man, would I love to smoke some crack with Rob Ford and go to that.
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Friday, 1 November 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
A friend came across this Twitter photo (not sure if it will embed):
http://twitter.com/PhilNobileJr/status/409872028406018048/photo/1/large
Kid on the left is great.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 00:42 (ten years ago) link
No, it will not embed--here's the link:
twitter.com/PhilNobileJr/status/409872028406018048/photo/1/large
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
has anyone been to that exhibit at TIFF that Dan mentioned?
― mh, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
faces on those children: excellent
Hadn't seen Scanners in eons (not right when it came out, but no more than a few years later). I remembered some of the gross stuff, so I wasn't expecting to like it much; there's actually wasn't all that much gore, though, and it's impressive in other ways. Probably a key film for him--here, The Dead Zone, Dead Ringers, Spider, others, Cronenberg would have fit comfortably into that Robert Kolker book A Cinema of Loneliness. Had completely forgotten about Jennifer O'Neill--think it's the only film of hers I've ever seen other than Summer of '42.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 December 2013 02:48 (ten years ago) link
did you go to the exhibit clemenza? just went last week
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 23 December 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
HOW WAS IT
also, if anyone in toronto wants to get me one of those coffee mugs I am willing to send a cash bounty
― mh, Monday, 23 December 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
what mug?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 December 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
(xxpost) Didn't go to the exhibit, no (think it's still on). I don't usually go to those--I saw the one when they opened for their 100 greatest films, and also the Chris Marker one upstairs. That was it.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 December 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Is this a Cronenberg mug in the gift shop, mh (and if you're not in Toronto, how did you know about it)? If that's what you mean, I'll be there next week and could put one in the mail for you.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 December 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
http://tiff.net/tiffshop
Long Live the New Flesh
btw the baby onesie is amazing but I don't think any of my child-having friends would love it as much
― mh, Monday, 23 December 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
oh shit would totally put my baby boy in that
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 December 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
Okay--I looked at the gift shop page, but didn't get that far. If you do want something specific, click on my user name, follow the link, and we'll make arrangements.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 December 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
the mug was pretty nice i was thinking about it but it didnt have a price on it which is annoying
anyway—the exhibit was great but i wished it wasnt $15
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 23 December 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
well, good thing I didn't book a flight to Toronto mostly for the exhibit :D
clemenza, I'll hit you up later today, thanks!
― mh, Monday, 23 December 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
The Brood's quite something--conceptually, it's got to be one of the grimmest and most well thought out horror films ever. The performances are better than I remembered--Reed's a little portentous at times, but he's not bad--and the climactic scene is gross, but not unwatchably so (and I have a low threshold nowadays). I believe Robin Wood hated Cronenberg's work then because it didn't fit into his theory of what horror films should do--lay waste to patriarchy, the nuclear family, sexual repression, etc. Wood wrote some great stuff on the genre, but I don't think you should ever put a theory before the work itself. The final shot of The Brood leaves all those considerations behind. (I've argued before, especially as applied to Vertigo, that a film's autobiographical content is of limited interest to me. Inconsistent, but for The Brood's backstory--Cronenberg's Kramer vs. Kramer, as he would always say--does make it feel that much more audacious.)
― clemenza, Friday, 3 January 2014 05:50 (ten years ago) link
oh geez, I completely spaced on my last message. thanks again for the offer, clemenza, but I'm good.
keep it up with the movie write-ups, though
― mh, Friday, 3 January 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Wise decision. I suspect postage would be more than the cost of the mug itself.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 January 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Can't find the shot I have in mind, but I think this is specifically meant to echo Night of the Living Dead (also a year before Nicholson punches his way through the wall in The Shining):
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mrMyvYI7S5E/TnkMcA9KNZI/AAAAAAAAAtY/buIU-jIGcoA/s640/brood.PNG
My recollection of Don't Look Now is very dim, but I was wondering if the visual conception of the brood was tied in with Roeg's film.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 January 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link