The Cronenberg Thread

nah, I don't see many boring horror tropes there

http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2193-notes-from-a-videodrome-test-screening

^3rd time this has been posted

Is it just me or has David Cronenberg, in an inversion of the Soderbergh formula, been making intellectually-minded critical favorites in order to gain the room in his career to produce what he REALLY loves, schlock exploitation flicks

'cause those are what brings in bank

man this looks sick as hell. i dont even like the book and had no expectations for this, but now...

for real

daaaaaaamn

what are the "schlock exploitation flicks"?

I like the book! This teaser video makes it look like it's going to be a lot less sedate than Delillo's prose.

I finally saw A Dangerous Method and it was ok but not as great as I hoped? Really low-key for Cronenberg.

but see, Spelrein's head never exploded nor did Jung ever stomp anyone's eye out.

was hoping for more messed-up sex or sexual tension I guess

my fan edit has ten minutes of Videodrome edited into the middle for no particular reason

NN - Shivers? Videodrome? Dead Ringers? Crash? OK maybe "schlock exploitation" was the wrong phrase but more like.... sensationalist genre films are what he "gets" to do after making critically lauded mainstream movies, which is like the reverse of the normal directorial jujitsu

man this looks sick as hell. i dont even like the book and had no expectations for this, but now...

― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:42 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah, I don't see many boring horror tropes there

What?

<3 & lol @ DON DELILLO flashing in neon

man this looks sick as hell. i dont even like the book and had no expectations for this, but now...

^^^^

looks way more exciting than Delillo's boring books

Paul Giamatti as the nemesis is a little too easy, but I'll wait n' see

http://io9.com/5903396/robert-pattinson-searches-for-sex-and-a-haircut-in-the-future-hell-of-david-cronenbergs-cosmopolis-trailer

that gunshot thru the palm is kinda almost a spoiler

#occupythenewflesh

never read the book (which a trusted friend said is one of the author's worst), but this could be great if Cronenberg's feeling up to it (based on trailer I'm hopeful).

Pattz goes all Croney in a photo shoot:

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/look-robert-pattinson-recreates-39videodrome39-39dead-ringers39-39scanners39-for-freaky-cronenberg-esque-photo-shoot/7874?wssac=164&wssaffid=news

in other news, virus-laden apple does not fall far from tree

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/first-pictures-from-brandon-cronenbergs-cannes-entry-antiviral/

never read the book (which a trusted friend said is one of the author's worst), but this could be great if Cronenberg's feeling up to it (based on trailer I'm hopeful).

I'm reading the book now. It's basically a piss-take on Ulysses, and it doesn't really add up to much, but DeLillo can always put a sentence together. Anyway, I don't think it matters -- remember, Cronenberg made a movie of Naked Lunch, which can only be called a book because it's available in a bound and printed format. I think he could do something brilliant with this material.

can only be called a book because it's available in a bound and printed format

excessively challopsy

Well, it's certainly not filmable as-is, you have to give me that.

I am one of the few people who really liked Cosmopolis and if this lives up to the potential of the book/director pairing I will be thrilled

Few books are filmable as is, and the only one I can think of that works brilliantly as virtual Cliff Notes is The Maltese Falcon.

First Cosmopolis clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbhW4U9dGFA

i feel like cronenberg has this masterpiece theatre/white elephant mode that kind of lurks around some of his films and that intruded a little too uncomfortably on dangerous method. i worry that it'll come to the fore here.

otm. I feel like those moments really only work when they're juxtaposed against scenes that render them somewhat unreal. A Dangerous Method never really had that and it ended up very much masterpiece theatrey

the spanking scene was pure pbs

I didn't feel like it was that edgy, compared to other Cronenberg films! May as well have been PBS

public bondage system

never been crazy about Farbert's taxnomoy tbh

*Farber

^yeah every time i hear "white elephant" used to describe a movie i just kind of tune out

unless the movie is literally about elephants that are white

would watch a movie made by termites, though

not crazy abt Farber's taxidermy on white elephants

u ppl just don't like PERIOD CUSTUMES

i like them!

is this about that photo shoot in vice magazine

I liked the movie's courage in reproducing how two prodigies wrote and spoke to each other; it assumed the audience would Get It.

exactly

oh i liked the movie fine i just feel like there was some airless fussiness hovering around.

for me, dangerous method was cronenberg's least interesting - and entertaining - film to date (not seen m. butterfly, or fast company come to that), and am afraid i'll agree w/ this cosmopolis review, in time:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/25/cosmopolis-review?newsfeed=true

Simon Abrams strongly disagrees

Kohn a little more tepid