― 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
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:35 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 23 September 2005 08:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 23 September 2005 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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
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
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:03 (two weeks ago) link
I think that's too judgy, and that the last name is enough of a CV.
"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 Cronenberg…mind you really looked forward to his last one and that was a major disappointment
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 19:38 (two weeks ago) link