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I found a great Cronenberg site. With lots of goodies on it. http://www.davidcronenberg.de God bless za Germans. |
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I just watched the clip from The Brood. Damn good movie it was, great soundtrack too, creepy violins and shit. Cronenberg has this penchant for not using lots of extras that makes the world feel like a cold and desolate place. |
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cool! love Cronenberg. that's funny, Fleetmouse, just started watching The Brood last night. great visuals and aaaah.. Oliver Reed... I love cronenbergs concepts. |
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I watched it when I was auditing my friend's film class a couple years ago. The prof made some good points about how he used camera angles to increase tension - either low or high in the kitchen for example, to kinda show the POV of the antagonists. Speaking of camera angles, the director of City of God does something similar in the chicken chase scenes, showing the chicken's POV. (did you notice the chicken narrowly got away? Kind of an allegory of how Rocket got away...) |
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*Cronenberg aficiando* |
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..or afficionado...? :P |
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cool. saw "Spider" recently at an int'l film fest .. he's got a thing for his creepy crawlies doesn't he [even if it is just in the title] |
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supposedly he's working on his next film now.. "painkillers". here's some info: Set in the world of radical performance artists, "Painkillers" is the story of Saul Tenser, an artist with a high pain threshold who is approached to capture a subversive group. He must decide if what he uncovers should be protected or handed over. "I've been interested in performance artists and the whole subculture since a fellow student of mine (at the University of Toronto) wrote a short story about a man who did surgery as a performance, literally cutting off his own hand," Cronenberg told Daily Variety. "I remember reading that story and being incredibly shocked and impressed by it." Cronenberg said he began writing the script about four years ago and expects to cast it this summer. It will be produced by Robert Lantos, who worked with Cronenberg on the 1999 Dimension Films release "eXistenZ" and Fine Line Features' 1996 picture "Crash." The film is currently scheduled to start production sometime in the first quarter 2003. Cronenberg has been writing the original screenplay focusing on a radical performance artist, Saul Tenser, who has an unusual high tolerance for pain. As he searches out odd sexual and aesthetic appetites, Tenser is approached to search out a group of enigmatic subersives. Finding himself on the edge of an underground world, Tenser must decided whether he should protect the information he has uncovered or hand it over to the proper authorities, whom will no doubt supress it. "David is one of the most original and courageous filmmakers of our time," Lantos said of his collaborator. "Painkillers ventures into a terrain other cinema has not gone before. I can't imagine anyone other than David taking this on, which makes working with him so interesting and inspiring." Cronenberg said of the project, "Robert and I have an excellent relationship that began with Crash, a film everyone was afraid to make. I have great repect for his taste and support of dangerous material" |
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Well he's the perfect man for that material, but isn't it all a little... 90s? I mean when the local "underground" weekly has run stories on tounge-splitting, the whole thing has lost some of its shock value. |
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cronenburg rocks ! 'nuff said |
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just finished watching The Brood. jesus, those dwarfs frightened the fuck out of me! that scene where the teacher gets killed is so cruel - very good. :) fleetmouse: I can't say. it's only a tidbit of information, I have no idea what he'll do with this. and there is a difference between tongue-splitting etc. and full body mutilation in the name of art (of which pretty extreme examples exist in China, for one). |
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Yes, the little fellows are unsettling, aren't they? :D I'm thinking Orlan's surgical performances are pretty extreme, but do you have a link to this Chinese stuff? |
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um, no. supposedly there was this artist who cut off one of his arms and hung it from wires as a piece. and another artist who's act involved eating stillborn childeren (not exactly self-mutilation, but kind of out there in it's own way). there was a documentary about this movement on Dutch television last year. |
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How disarming. Did he call the piece A Farewell to Arms? Was he making a political commentary on the arms trade? Did he GAK :: chokes to death on a bad pun :: |
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and about The Brood - really good how he does show their faces briefly, but after that only from afar. makes them even more creepy. very emotional film, I thought. |
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RIGHT! THAT'S IT!! my Brood are coming for you. please leave the door open - their fingers are kind of underdeveloped, they have a hard time opening jam jars, doors, handling machinery of death, etc. |
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All you lucky lucky Zone 2 European sods can buy Naked Lunch on DVD. Lucky, lucky, lucky sods. Damned laser disc people got the rights for it in Zone1 so no DVD's of Naked Lunch in Zone 1. Grrrr...Purrr...Meow. |
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ah yes.. I do have it on dvd.. yes.. beep beep yeh. |
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Videodrome and Crash are good (in a very fucked up way, but that's cronenberg for you). Naked Lunch i once claimed to be the worst and weirdest film i'd ever seen (still think it's the weirdest next to Earaserhead). but that was a long time ago. i think i would appriciate it more if i watched it now his latests Spider however, i found incredibly boring. I didn't even have the patience to watch it all. It was lacking cronenberg's weirdness ;P |
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Grr..ahrr...Grr. {breaks down} Sob. |
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Yes Spider is a very gentle and subtle movie. I think the story demanded it. Or it could have turned mental disability into a freak show. I read in Cronenbergs interview in Sight and Sound that he envisaged Spider's character as a differently abled artist. Fienes's hair and costume and mannerisms were modeled after Samuel Beckett. Highly recommend revisiting Naked Lunch. In fact if you read the book the movie seems very linear and straight forward. |
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Crash is great, dunno if I ENJOYED watching it though... I think I've seen all the important ones except Spider and... Scanners... ugh. The exploding head beckons me. Painkillers sounds interesting... does anyone know who's starring, IMDB doesn't say... |
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crash nearly got me off that's how cool i thought it to be. a fucked up rush that was. deadringers: yum :p |
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Painkillers sounds a whole lot like a fantastic book by Kathe Koja called "Skin" also about a troupe of body modifying performance artists that keep pushing the limits. scroll down to read the synopsis. |
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dead ringers is very good. must be the most intense psychological film I've seen. |
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i haven't seen that one. what's it about? |
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I saw a film recently that reminded me of Dead Ringers, called 'A Zed & Two Noughts', by Peter Greenaway - Also about twins who kill themselves, but its more of a black comedy. Crash (the book), was more intence than the film, but its still a masterpiece. |
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a pair of twin gynaecologists - one timid, the other more outward. when the outward one gets a girlfriend and gets tired of her, she is passed on to the timid one. then the timid one falls in love with one of the passed on. they get more and more loopy - making strange instruments for operating on mutant women, etc. |
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spider is top notch but existenz sucks. painkillers sounds good, hope its executed in a good way though. |
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scanners is so good! watched it this weekend. has a really great "feel" to it, like dead ringers meets alien? |
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i never thought i'd say this, but that blowing up head thingy in scanners was pretty well done, but don't get any ideas JAR about putting that as your avatar....cos watching that happen over and over is just.......toooo toooo much! =0) the movie was good, terrible dubbing job tho, guess it's cos the movie is 20 years old....very original story! |
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