* Commentary by Jeremy Irons * Behind-the-scenes featurette * Cast/filmmaker interviews and filmographies * Dead Ringers Psychological Profiler (menu-based quiz) * Theatrical trailer
ok, i see. still im not gonna need to buy this. the criterion edition from a few years back has much better features.
― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm going to shock everyone by saying that Existenz is probably the one I enjoy the most.
I adore eXistenZ, it's incredibly funny! Poor Jude Law's excessive uptightness really makes it.
I like just about everything Cronenberg's ever done, including Crash. When I lived in Paris the Cahiers du Cinema people did a big retrospective, they screened all his films and brought Cronenberg there to give a few talks & such. He is super nice and seemed rather surprised by all the attention from that realm, i.e. the film scholar/auteur worshipping contingent instead of, you know, Fangoria. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
As part of the retrospective they had an exhibition of various props and plans and things from his films.. This turned out to be extremely hilarious, because on the ground floor of the same building there happened to be an exhibition of a century's worth of advertising art for Lu, the dessert company. So you'd walk in and it was all bright sunlight and cheery vintage Art Nouveau posters and candy and cookies, and then you got to go downstairs to this gloomy, dark basement (really!) and look at tools for operating on mutant women. I wonder if Cronenberg ever made it over there to see what they'd done, I think he would have been amused.
xpostHoly shit, "psychological profiler"? That's messed up. Awesome.
― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― robertw, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Personally, I think I like Crash and The Dead Zone the best.
― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
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― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Dead Ringers, the Dead Zone, Scanners, videodrome: all great. I LOVE his Naked Lunch adaptation; again, adapting this was a thankless job and he got a lot of flak for not doing the book (like he could really film the book) and instead focusing on Burroughs biography, but I think he made a real masterpiece here, his best and most emotional film.
I liked the fish gun in Existenz and that was all.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
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― N_RQ, Friday, 23 September 2005 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link
i think anyway, i switched over in protest at this botch up.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 23 September 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 23 September 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 23 September 2005 08:52 (eighteen years ago) link
what made you say that? it was howard shore, btw.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 23 September 2005 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 23 September 2005 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― chris j (chris j), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link
The Crash score is by Howard Shore and it's really, really great.
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah i know it was howard shore, but i was surprised by the running guitar motifs - i thought he was famous for/usually employed to provide orchestral scores?
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, he's fun as an actor, like in Last Night and Nightbreed.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
And I discovered the Brood around the same time I first saw Oliver Reed in Ken Russell's The Devils.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
god i love existenz!!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
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