The Cronenberg Thread

It's my favourite Cronenberg, and would be my favourite King adaptation if The Shining didn't exist.

To this day, my sister still refers to The Dead Zone as "that movie with the scissors."

it has an unsettling mood, like the moment WAlken gets a headache on the rollercoaster.

plus we have our own President Stillson now

Except Tr*mp would feel no shame about having used a toddler as a human shield.

THAT BABY WAS A RINO!!!

i watched shivers the other day and thought it was excellent

gooood that one creeped me out

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/04/david-cronenberg-sci-fi-movie-crimes-of-the-future-shoot-1234633841/

The original Crimes of the Future is my favourite film of his, maybe my favourite of all time. The article implies the new film only shares its title, but doesn't provide any other details?

Here to remind you that David Cronenberg had the best and most David Cronenberg take on streaming vs. theatrical: pic.twitter.com/3rkKsweHxB

— Jane Schoenbrun (@janeschoenbrun) April 28, 2021

I still can't figure out if this new one relates at all to the old "Crimes" which is awesome

https://variety.com/2021/film/global/david-cronenberg-crimes-of-the-future-viggo-mortensen-1235033420/

According to promotional materials, the film takes a deep dive into the not-so-distant future where humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings. This evolution moves humans beyond their natural state and into a metamorphosis known as “Accelerated Evolution Syndrome” that alters their biological makeup. While some embrace the limitless potential of “transhumanism,” others attempt to police it.

From the list of performers, it sounds as if he is reusing the general premise of biological metamorphosis, but not that all the women in the world have died from "Rouge's Malady".

So I guess the "Dead Ringers" series is really going forward, huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVX7df79BNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGwtPfjt9Zc

amazing.

like how the international trailer has more sex...but also more "techno" music.

So I guess the "Dead Ringers" series is really going forward, huh?

With opening credits just like The Patty Duke Show, I assume.

"Gynos . . . Identical gynos . . ."

It looks like one of his more extreme gothic retro-future body horror films. I know I will have to watch it but this stuff makes me feel bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veBhrS9Dkmk

so great

It looks like one of his more extreme gothic retro-future body horror films. I know I will have to watch it but this stuff makes me feel bad

― Dan S, Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:20 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

I know just while watching it I was worried whether my tetanus booster was up to date.

So wait, Lamarck was right?

tomorrow!

Second-tier Cronenberg, but what a treat to watch a film interrogating what constitutes sexual pleasure and why we would want to munch on plastic.

this made me lol

This guy is up to NO GOOD pic.twitter.com/taAe0SNhSq

— Patrick Fisackerly (@fisackerly) June 5, 2022

Hey that's me! (Not really, but I shouldn't be surprised I couldn't meet a single guy even if I offered a finder's fee.)

just rewatched the trailer and that's probably enough for me

I'm glad he's revisiting the early material, but...

this is top tier croneyboney for me, though admittedly i have seen only the wrong cronenberg films. haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since i got out of the theater last night. transhumanism through art surgery and consuming microplastics. my favorite movie of the year so far

the scenes where you get a glimpse of the whole
microcosm of surgical artists (a surgical arts scene lol) were so funny. the whole movie was so funny

Second-tier for me -- the movie sorta just stops -- but like you I haven't stopped thinking about it, maybe his best recent techno-queer film.

lol sorry -- I forgot I responded on Monday.

wasn't the Ear Guy dance sequence hot as fuck?

So is Cronenberg the first director to use the same title twice for a film that is neither a sequel nor a remake?

I'd say Mati Diop's Atlantiques (documentary short) and Atlantics (fiction feature) have the same name but ymmv.

oh also this movie confirmed for me that kristen stewart as an actor is chaotic good jared leto and personally i'm a fan, glad she got to be a strange little weirdo in this film

She's hilarious.

Viggo 4ever. So happy he's part of Cronenberg's world.

oh also this movie confirmed for me that kristen stewart as an actor is chaotic good jared leto and personally i'm a fan, glad she got to be a strange little weirdo in this film

Have you seen Underwater? It rules (think Hellboy crossed with The Abyss) and she's great in it.

I really get irrationally angry anytime people make Twilight jokes about her or Patterson as both have emerged as solid actors.

I need to see this. Underwater is good fun. Stewart is incredible in Personal Shopper.

She's been good to excellent for a decade.

Have you seen Underwater? It rules (think Hellboy crossed with The Abyss) and she's great in it.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, June 8, 2022 12:30 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i have not watched this movie bc tj miller is in it and no movie no matter how great it is otherwise can survive the presence of tj miller

this movie is like what if the art crime cyberpunk thing happening in the background of bowie's outside were actually cool and worth thinking about

i can't tell if my takes on this movie are bad or not but it had a profound effect on me

ha -- I wrote down "Damien Hirst" but couldn't figure out how he fit.

even tho k stew gives the best performance my favorite minor characters were the lesbian drill assassins who had a sensual lust for/were operating on behalf of(?) the tech modulating viggo's body

I like the idea of the Bowie character in the album playing Detective Cope...and Stewart as Algeria Touchshriek.

I am Ramona A. Stone.

i finally got my butt to the theater tonight, and then read this afterward:

https://www.artforum.com/print/202206/amy-taubin-talks-with-david-cronenberg-about-crimes-of-the-future-88615

this pull quote from that interview is a good one: “At what point can you no longer claim to be a person or a human? This question is certainly in the film.” —David Cronenberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIIfKwL43Cg

^Gets a little graphic in places.

Opens here in a few days...Not hopeful after seeing the trailer last night. The body-horror stuff--precisely what most people love about Cronenberg--is my least favourite part of his films, why The Dead Zone remains my favourite. Maybe even more ominous, though, for me, is something I use as a running joke for directors whose every pronouncement is treated like the word of god: "From the mind of David Lynch," "From the mind of Stanley Kubrick," etc. Sure enough, "From the mind of David Cronenberg" in the trailer and on the poster.

i think it's about the funniest and most idea-rich movie you'd get from the mind of any of those dudes

but yes it's also got a makeout scene with an incision