― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― franken-vader, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link
i think it is the best film formally he has made
― anthony, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Just Kidding (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link
So, yes. Ebert liked it way more than I did, though.
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link
POV:Dead RingersDead ZoneScannersVideodromeThe Fly
I really want to see Shivers.
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Not that I find his style starchy -- more like gooey (ha) -- but as the Star Wars threads (and esp. movies) have reminded me, it doesn't just take a good actor to be a good actor. It takes a relatively decent filmmaker as well. Th fact that Cronenberg consistently gets such good actors and such good stuff out of them is a testament to his ability to work with actors, and that's a laudable talent. Makes the movies better for all of us. A round of applause, please, for Goldblum in The Fly and Irons in Dead Ringers and even Jude Law in eXistenZ. Cronenberg doesn't always give these guys top-shelf material to work with, I won't argue that, but he apparently gives them the room to actually *act* in movies that are not perfect, and that's good direction.
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link
It COULD be, depending on many, many things. At least the very thought doesn't make me want to die like pretty much any other director on this shit would.
― box of socks, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I always feel compelled to compare Cronenberg to David Lynch and as much as I admire Lynch, I think Cronenberg is much more successful at doing the same types of things Lynch attempts. For example while Lynch flirts with bad acting, camp, b-movie conventions, and general awkwardness, Cronenberg seems to operate in that territory quite naturally. He kind of skirts a thin line between the arthouse and schlocky failure that I find very exciting. Where other directors working in a similar vein might come across as too clever and knowing, Cronenberg manages to make movies that can be truly confounding and get the most intense reactions out of people.
So anyway, I think he's very underrated. Crash and Naked Lunch in particular are quite underrated. Total classic.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Really? Unintentionally?
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 06:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 06:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 06:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 07:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link
ShiversNaked LunchVideodromeExistenZDead Ringers
I like Crash and The Fly, too, and Scanners (although I was anticipating the head-blowing-up scene too much to really appreciate much else of the film).
― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm not the biggest fan of Crash, but I think a lot of that has to do w/ the subject matter (and the portrayal of it) (the fierce unyielding atavistic obsession the characters have re: the fetish), so I'm thinking the movie worked really well. I'm thinking "atavistic obsession" could summarize DC's career succinctly.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
the only other director who can finesse some of the same essence out of a scenario the way that he can is nicolas roeg. they're working in two different arenas, in general, but both are adept at channeling the anxiety of being an awkward fleshy thing with a brittle skeleton beneath, and i very much like the endings in their films. and the beginnings middles and rests too.
ok, strike the only out of that sentence. i hate that kinda talk.
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
* 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― robertw, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
it's a synthesis of ideas he's been turning over for his whole career but doesn't feel exactly like any of them. and it is hilarious
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 November 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
We watched Crimes of the Future last night too, but we all basically liked it and/or were fascinated by it. It was the kids' first Cronenberg so they were just kind of amazed that this existed as a movie. And the philosophical explorations were broken up frequently enough by weird gross stuff that they didn't get bored. I also thought it was funny on purpose at several moments. I wouldn't call it so much a rehash as kind of a summing up of a lot of his core obsessions. (That he recycled the title from his first film adds to that impression.)
I also had the thought that if you showed this at a Qanon movie night (if Qanon people have movie nights) as a Hollywood insider's knowing nod to child mutilation rituals, it go over big.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 6 November 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
I'll get right on that.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 November 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
I also thought it was funny on purpose at several moments.
The scene with Kristen Stewart chasing Viggo around the office was the funniest thing I'd seen in a long time.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Sunday, 6 November 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
yes
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 November 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
Yes, that was really good, and Viggo's "Sorry; I'm not very good at the old sex" after the world's most off-putting kiss was a great punch line.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 6 November 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
I think Cosmopolis has become my favorite of his movies
― ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat (Eric H.), Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
Or Crash ... one of those two, for sure
― ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat (Eric H.), Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
don't think I'm alone in missing films because I don't know if or when it's coming around here. There's never enough films I want to see to keep up with the weekly local cinema listings.đ€
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 7 November 2022 07:58 (one year ago) link
huh, Crimes is on hulu now. hope that there are some fun online âwhat the hell was that?â responses
― mh, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
I still convulse & uncontrollably shudder to myself when remembering Keira Knightley's performance in A Dangerous Method
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
just feel lucky it was her and not ornaldo bloomps
― mh, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
I really like the dialogue in Crimes, I wish more taken this approach
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 November 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
Just saw that Caitlin (daughter of David) Cronenberg has her debut on its way.
â'Humane' takes place over a single day months after a global environmental collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce the earthâs population. In a wealthy enclave, a recently retired newsman invites his four grown children to dinner to announce his intentions to enlist in the nationâs new euthanasia program. But when the fatherâs plan goes horribly awry, tensions flare and chaos erupts among his children.â
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
I liked his son Brandon's recent one. Sure, give me more Cronenbergs!
― mh, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
long live the new flesh indeed
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
Crimes was good and I enjoyed it well enough, but the final shot is what stuck with me. I love a movie that ends at the climax.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
I finished processing the plot about five minutes after the end of Crimes
at which point I was thinking "ooh, that was good"
― mh, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
I missed the news that Amazon is making a tv series of Dead Ringers starring Rachel Weisz as Beverly and Elliot:
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― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
More pictures here
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
Every David Cronenberg film summarised by dril— â Daydream of Hell đłïžââ§ïž (@hellsdaydream) May 21, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 May 2023 19:18 (eleven months ago) link
they're on private, looks like :(
― mh, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:01 (eleven months ago) link
Saw a preview announcement last night for Humane: "From the mind of Caitlin Cronenberg." That seems very premature for her first feature film--you have to make at least three or four ponderous vanity films before you've earned a "from the mind of." Must be genetic.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 16:26 (two weeks ago) link
I think that's too judgy, and that the last name is enough of a CV.
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 16:42 (two weeks ago) link
Shows sufficient humility by not characterising said mind as twisted imo.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 16:50 (two weeks ago) link
going to provisionally allow it based on her family's name
Brandon's gotten pretty good at this movie thing. I'm willing to check it out
― É„ÉŻ ïž” (°âĄÂ°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:03 (two weeks ago) link
"From the nepo baby of David Cronenberg"
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:23 (two weeks ago) link
nepo brood
― subpost master (wins), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:25 (two weeks ago) link
From the bowels of
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:25 (two weeks ago) link
absolutely, I'll see that movie (when it hits streaming)
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:54 (two weeks ago) link
Looking forward to the new CronenbergâŠmind you really looked forward to his last one and that was a major disappointment
― X-Prince ProtĂ©gĂ© (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 19:38 (two weeks ago) link