that wasn't my problem -- my problem was just after building the mystery so carefully the revelation felt rather predictable and pat. which doesn't mean the film is any worse than one of those 1940s freudian potboilers by siodmak or fritz lang, just that it's not much more than that, either.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 10 October 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
so is this worth seeing or not?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/book-compost-heap-interview-david-cronenberg
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Does stuntpeople + actual fire cost that much? (Genuine q I know nothing)
― please delete outrageous tanuki crappyposter (wins), Wednesday, October 1, 2014 5:23 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for an auteur type like cronenberg i figure part of it is gaining much more control over your shoot/finished film-if you fully CGI the flames then you can just deal with your actor and don't have to deal with stuntpeople and various effects people+you can be more flexible with how you shoot it and how many takes you shoot+you don't have to edit around the stuntperson. this was presumably why all of the gun deaths in the departed were CGI instead of squibs too.
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
did the cronenberg augmented reality game ever happen?
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
you're...playing it right now
― Number None, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
In the interview he says many of his films aren't on DVD, but which? I know Shivers taken a long time to get an American DVD release but I thought that was the final feature length thing.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
I had shivers on DVD years ago.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 01:11 (nine years ago) link
I am thinking of watching The Brood tonight... never seen it before, hope it's good!
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
It's great.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 05:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was really something
kind of wanted to go for the Brood/ADM psychotherapy double-feature but I got too tired & chickened out
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
i really want someone to shop one of those brood children onto a picture of me so i can use it as my global profile pic
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
you don't need to see ADM after you've seen the Brood
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
Duly noted ... maybe i'll just rewatch The Brood
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
Ward is rong.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
ADM is a totally different, albeit minor and enjoyable, film
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
it has one really good joke in it
surveying, ranking the oeuvre
http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/the-films-of-david-cronenberg-ranked
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
survey is good, rankings are ridic
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Top 5 is accurate (in a different order, but still).
― Eric H., Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
Crash is so bad
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Eric possibly otm
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Crash is much funnier than Maps to the Stars.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
I loathed Crash in '97 (my first experience with crowds exiting a theatre) but it's due for a "rescreen."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
A Dangerous Method has to be the worst, I forgot that was Cronenberg.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
careful w morbz trigger-word there Alfred
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
I knew it was from how the precision of those images and how Freud and Jung are set up as umbilically connected as the Mantle twins.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
how
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
Dangerous Method has at least one good joke in it, which is more than you can say for Crash which is just tedious
xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
― Οὖτις,
"I"?
funnier?
Naked Lunch left me cold once Judy Davis exited, bn meaning to try again
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
the pacing of Naked Lunch is v strange and it drags for a bit in the last third but is redeemed by the ending. score is great, typewriters are great, should've been more overtly homoerotic imo if it wanted to be at all true to the source material but eh it's its own thing
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
the thing that's stuck with me from last year's r*scr**n of Dead Ringers is the sob of "I want some ice cream."
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
I feel like those rankings were picked out of a hat
― mh, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
every fetishist has his reasons
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
the write-ups aren't bad at all
i really, really like history of violence, which in its own way is perfect
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
it's really interesting to watch older cronenberg movies, esp. those from the mid-80s and earlier. he doesn't quite have his style mastered, and there are awkward moments and scenes that don't come off even as you admire what they are trying to do. but in some of the recent films you have a sense that he knows /exactly/ where to put the camera, /exactly/ when to cut, etc. there's a classical precision that's almost breathtaking.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
The way Viggo Mortensen seems to change the very structure of his face through a change in expression when he acknowledges his past identity in AHOV is still one of my favorite scenes
― mh, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
some of his recent films remind me of the moment when a lot of people felt hal hartley went off the rails.... (ca. no such thing and later). there's a sense that having achieved a summit of critical favor, the director wants to tackle projects of an appropriate sociological heft. and what results is satire that's somehow both extremely idiosyncratic and kind of obvious (in a way that seems unbecoming of such smart directors).
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
xxxp Almost boring.
Give me the shagginess of his early stuff and the emerging thematic clumsiness of his most recent few any day.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
the big confrontation in front of the house in "history of violence" (where viggo first shows his "true colors" to his family) is incredible. it's really kuleshovian, too -- it's not until over halfway through the scene, i think, that you get a shot that actually shows ed harris and his goons in the same frame as viggo and his family.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
also really striking (and i guess derived from the graphic novel?) that history of violence begins with the bad guys, kind of like a lot of westerns.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
Am willing to give History of Violence another shot, but I found it more uninvolving than clinical.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
the obviousness is in "spider," too. the big climactic reveal is beautifully engineered as visual storytelling, but it's also, disappointingly, exactly what you might have feared/expected. cronenberg is much smarter than i am, so i probably shouldn't second-guess why he's sometimes drawn to material like that.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
and, for the most part, give me the meat in the middle.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
you guys are being really glib
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I love "milking cows and shit" from Hurt in History Of Violence.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
hurt in "history of violence" is definitely a take-or-leave thing. when i first saw the film i thought he was playing too broadly, too cartoonishly. but each time i've seen it since (probably a dozen times) i figure there's really no other way to play it, and he's pretty perfect.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
well it's all been said, and gets resaid (starting w/ Shakey) with every goddamn bump
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
i mean doing an al pacino brooding intensity thing just wouldn't have been appropriate... it would have been too close to viggo's performance.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link