Nowadays many creators have been seduced into the space of otherness and the abject, as a banner we can lift the embodiments of delusion of Goya in his Black Paintings and The Disasters of War, or visit the work
of David Cronenberg in The Fly, Tod Browings with Freaks, the otherness worked by Lynch, Bacon's deformed faces, the sexual exaltation in Picasso and Kubin, Barney's beautiful Chimeras, the twisted bodies of John Currin, or the «Frankensteinian» exercises of Cindy Sherman, they like many other artists, have used this place as a sign of vulnerability of the predatory condition, of the primary lethal and self - destructive impulses of human beings.
Inspired by the modern - day macabre works of video artist Chris Cunningham and the lo - fi / high - cry films
of David Cronenberg (specifically Videodrome), these hybrid images utilize both practical and digital effects.
Mick Garris (Masters of Horror) and Alvaro Rodriguez (Machete) deconstruct the shock, suspense, and subtleties
of David Cronenberg's The Fly and how his execution has contributed to the legitimacy and intellect of the horror genre.
Join Film Society KC and Screenland Armour for a FREE member screening
of David Cronenberg's masterpiece, VIDEODROME, on July 7th at 7PM at Screenland Armour!
J.D. Dillard, whose directorial feature debut Sleight was one of the big buzz films of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, is in talks to direct and co-write a remake
of David Cronenberg «s classic horror film The Fly, which was itself a remake of the 1958 film of the same name.
Last month it was revealed that Sleight director J.D. Dillard was in talks to direct and co-write a remake
of David Cronenberg «s classic horror remake The Fly.
Brandon Cronenberg, the son
of David Cronenberg, took the Gold Hugo for «Antiviral» (Canada / USA), his dystopian futuristic shocker about an industry devoted to celebrity disease.
DVD Review: The single - disc release
of David Cronenberg's «A History of Violence» features an awesome selection of special features, including a director commentary that, despite overflowing with interesting facts, is seriously lacking in personality.
Taken from the filming practices
of David Cronenberg, the idea was to... Read
Whether you're a fan of the movie or not, give a look to the above video — a short making - of account
of David Cronenberg «s notorious J.G. Ballard adaptation Crash (1996).
ANTIVIRAL is the directorial debut
of David Cronenberg's son, Brandon which harks back to this dad's body - horror roots, and was warmly received at Cannes.
According to Variety, the Soska Sisters will direct a remake
of David Cronenberg's Rabid.
, and all the films
of David Cronenberg since Dead Ringers, including eXistenZ; the focused dramatic intensity associated with these later movies is found only sporadically in It Happened Here and Winstanley, which are relatively studied and distanced by comparison.
Rob realised cinema's power when first seeing Jaws in 1981, and later seeing his mum bolting from the living room aghast at the climax
of David Cronenberg's The Brood.
New to Blu - ray this week are both Rabid and Dead Ringers, a pair
of David Cronenberg movies that are stacked with some great extras worth digging into.
Breck Eisner will be directing Spyglass Entertainment's remake
of David Cronenberg's The Brood.
Like many of us, I'm a huge fan of Julianne Moore's work and the dark mind
of David Cronenberg so today we merge the two, in a sense, and give you a little exclusive behind - the - scenes looks at Julianne Moore in MAPS TO THE STARS, out to own on February 2nd on Blu - ray and DVD.
Like many of us, I'm a huge fan of Julianne Moore's work and the dark mind
of David Cronenberg so today we merge the...
It feels as if the Soska Sisters «remake
of David Cronenberg's 1977 body horror classic Rabid has been in the works for ages.
Take a look at the making -
of David Cronenberg's prophetic 1983 film Videodrome with this short documentary featuring the Canadian master himself and various members of the crew divulging the process behind creating some of the movie's grotesque (and still - impressive - to - this - day) special effects.
Tornatore achieves all of the hideous, ruthless atmosphere
of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and for the characters in Irena's past, the stakes are just as dire as they are in that film.
So unfolds Eastern Promises, a primal splatter flick courtesy
of David Cronenberg.
A reappraisal of Ingmar Bergman's career and Fanny and Alexander, Superman III, midsection on getting difficult movies made, Charlie Hass on Headsploitation movies, Wild Style, Joe Dante's guilty pleasures, Israeli cinema, L.M. Kit Carson and Jim McBride's Breathless, on the set
of David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone
Australian premiere screenings
of David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, Sundance favourite Like Crazy and tender French romance Goodbye, First Love are also essential viewing, as are Gus van Sant's quirky latest Restless and Lars von Trier's masterful Melancholia.
, The Shape of Rage: The Films
of David Cronenberg, Geberal Publishing Co, Toronto, 1983
That The Fly is one
of David Cronenberg's most accessible films, yet sacrifices none of his fascination with the body and technology and consequences when the two are merged together.
(Worse, it rips off the ironic PR infomercial from the opening
of David Cronenberg's Shivers and has the residents of the Green inexplicably watching it on an endless loop — which is like listening to the time - share pitch after you've bought the time - share.)
More ambitious but also frustrating is Seth Smith's «The Crescent,» a film that the program compares to the work
of David Cronenberg and David Lynch but it doesn't really work enough to merit either name drop.
«From Within: The Films»
of David Cronenberg takes a competist look at the filmmaker, with all of his films and even his earliest works showing.
Jen and Sylvia Soska «s remake
of David Cronenberg's 1977 body horror classic Rabid is set to begin shooting in early 2018.
Here are several photos taken behind - the - scenes during production
of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence.
The great achievement
of David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch is that it proves an adaptation need not be faithful to the original text to be successful.
Compare 1987's Near Dark to the insights offered by its temporal brothers: the sexual leprosy
of David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) and the crumbling pleasure - domes of Marek Kanievska's difficult Less Than Zero (1987) and Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy (1989).
Double Lover A Parisian woman (Marine Vacth) begins seeing identical twin psychiatrists (Jérémie Renier) in François Ozon's delirious cracked mirror of an erotic thriller, which plays like the kinky love - child
of David Cronenberg and Brian De Palma.
No one would expect the son
of David Cronenberg to direct romantic comedies, so it's no shock that 33 - year - old Brandon's feature debut, «Antiviral,» is about a clinic that sells celebrity's illnesses to clients.
Indeed, he's among the half
of David Cronenberg's eclectic cast that completely nails the very tricky, precise tone demanded by Don DeLillo's unapologetically inhuman dialogue.
The funniest review
of David Cronenberg's The Brood is probably the shortest one, wherein Leonard Maltin (in his annual guide) assigns the movie a BOMB rating and writes,» [Samantha] Eggar eats her own afterbirth while midget clones beat grandparents and lovely young schoolteachers to death with mallets.
Watch out for cameos from the likes
of David Cronenberg, Denys Arcand, Saul Rubinek, Atom Egoyan, and Robert Lantos.
, son
of David Cronenberg.
The company is looking to exploit across multiple platforms its library of movie titles, which includes Barker's Nightbreed and a reimagining
of David Cronenberg «s Dead Ringers.
Audio Commentary With William Beard, Author Of The Artist As Monster: The Cinema
Of David Cronenberg
NEW Audio Commentary With Writer William Beard, Author Of The Artist As Monster: The Cinema
Of David Cronenberg
The problem of language in interactive cinema (4 June, p 50) reminded
me of David Cronenberg's film eXistenZ.
Not exact matches
The CFC Media Lab creates groundbreaking productions that include Body / Mind / Change starring
David Cronenberg; Late Fragment, Canada's first interactive feature film; and the dynamic mobile visualization project
of What's Your Essential Cinema, co-produced with TIFF.
One
of the best among them is
David Cronenberg's excellent Eastern Promises (2007).
So there's this whole level
of subtlety and nuance, and I would argue like the book
of Judges, which is just Game
of Thrones meets a
David Cronenberg film, I would argue that's the editor's point.
This year, the Mouton Cadet Wine Bar will also host the prestigious Angénieux Prize, which pays tribute to English director
of photography, Peter Suschitsky, a regular collaborator
of Canadian filmmaker
David Cronenberg.
If imitation is the sincerest form
of flattery,
David Cronenberg should be feeling pretty chuffed with son Brandon's big - screen debut, a petri dish
of high - concept perversity and cultural commentary teeming with lo - fi ickiness.
The actor retained a firm hold on his craft, however, and delivered some
of the finest work
of his career late in the game, with prominent roles in
David Cronenberg's 1991 Naked Lunch (as a wiseacre physician) and Bart Freundlich's family - themed psychodrama The Myth
of Fingerprints (1997, as a seriously deranged father with a seedy and twisted past).
An adaptation
of Don DeLillo's novel
of the same name (which itself received mixed reviews),
David Cronenberg's film traces a day in the life
of a billionaire as he travels throughout Manhattan in a limousine.