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.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
can only be called a book because it's available in a bound and printed format
excessively challopsy
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
Well, it's certainly not filmable as-is, you have to give me that.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
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
― mh, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
First Cosmopolis clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbhW4U9dGFA
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 21 May 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
the spanking scene was pure pbs
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't feel like it was that edgy, compared to other Cronenberg films! May as well have been PBS
― mh, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
public bondage system
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
never been crazy about Farbert's taxnomoy tbh
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
*Farber
^yeah every time i hear "white elephant" used to describe a movie i just kind of tune out
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
unless the movie is literally about elephants that are white
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
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
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
i like them!
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
is this about that photo shoot in vice magazine
― mh, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the movie's courage in reproducing how two prodigies wrote and spoke to each other; it assumed the audience would Get It.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
exactly
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
oh i liked the movie fine i just feel like there was some airless fussiness hovering around.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 25 May 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
Simon Abrams strongly disagrees
Kohn a little more tepid
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
cronenbergesque typo
trades barbs with his scowling body guard (Kevin Durand), while making vein attempts to ignore the Occupy-like protestors
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
I find the sum of these reactions encouraging
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-cannes-2012-david-cronenbergs-cosmopolis/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
As do I. Aren't we all getting tired of Cronenberg movies that everybody likes by now?
(Not sarcasm, in case that was unclear.)
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
No. I will never be tired of The Fly. It's sort of got that "gets better with age" thing built in that way.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Ok, ok... I have to give you that one. The more time I see The Fly, the more I'm convinced that it's almost perfect. The first 15 minutes alone, with twitchy Goldblum hitting on silky Gena, are worth the whole movie.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
coming in 2013/14, a TIFF-created touring exhibition, plus a "multi-platform augmented reality game."
http://twitchfilm.com/news/2012/05/david-cronenberg-to-infect-toronto-in-new-travelling-exhibition.php
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
watched the brood last night. almost barfed at the demon womb sac.
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
so 1997
xpost
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
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the conservative gov't here slashed film production massively and put a shit ton of money into this video game
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
Through the presentation of artifacts, props, documentation and audio-visual interviews, as well as reconstructed set-pieces from Cronenberg's films, the exhibition parallels his growth as a filmmaker with his ongoing examination and interpretation of human evolutionary possibilities, tracing his work from a focus on biological change towards examinations of shifting psychological states. A parallel art project based on the same themes will be announced at a later date.
this all sounds very excessive, self-regarding, and absurd.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
tbh i have no problem with them doing a cronie exhibit (makes way more sense than the tim burton one they launched the lightbox with) but this is getting ridic
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
tracing his work from a focus on biological change towards examinations of shifting psychological states
somehow framing it this systematically/schematic and making it the linchpin of a museum exhibit is just kind of embarrassing.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
could just be the way the exhibit was written up, these kinds of things usually sound terrible
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, I get it now.
being young = being afraid of your body deterioratingbeing old = being afraid of your mind deteriorating
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
actually both of those are really "being old"
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
I revise:
being young = loving movies about being afraid of your body deterioratingbeing old = loving movies about being afraid of your mind deteriorating
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
being somewhere in between = writing program notes for museum exhibitions
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
press releases ain't program notes (we hope).
DC is as much about mutation as deterioration, no?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, long live the new flesh and all that
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
I do often think of him when a smartphone with a selfish asshole attached is blocking the subway stairs.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
iirc 'the smartphone with a selfish asshole' was one of the skits cut from naked lunch
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
watched cosmopolis at the w/end - never seen so many people walk out of a film, seriously. it is exceptionally boring, but somehow more Cronenbergian than the pallid heritage cinema of 'Dangerous Method'
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
hah
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
nooooooo
― mh, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ "exceptionally boring"
That's become my baseline expectation of new Cronenberg movies
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:25 (eleven years ago) link
I liked aspects of it, but it's probably his least accessible movie ever, and yes, *many* walkouts. Also, he doesn't handle digital very well.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link