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
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Paul Giamatti as the nemesis is a little too easy, but I'll wait n' see
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 April 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://io9.com/5903396/robert-pattinson-searches-for-sex-and-a-haircut-in-the-future-hell-of-david-cronenbergs-cosmopolis-trailer
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
that gunshot thru the palm is kinda almost a spoiler
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
#occupythenewflesh
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, 19 April 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 May 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
in other news, virus-laden apple does not fall far from tree
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/first-pictures-from-brandon-cronenbergs-cannes-entry-antiviral/
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
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