Also, the melodramatic strings soundtrack to The Brood really does remind me of peak-era Hitchcock
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, I didn't know this, from his wiki:
Since 1988's Dead Ringers, Cronenberg has worked with cinematographer Peter Suschitzky on each of his films (see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations). Suschitzky was the director of photography for The Empire Strikes Back, and Cronenberg has repeatedly said that Suschitzky's work in that film made it the most beautiful sci-fi film he had ever seen, which was a motivating factor to work with him on Dead Ringers.
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
wow david crononberg don't watch much sci fi huh
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, I'm trying to think of other 1980-or-before sci-fi flicks that the dude would find that striking. Kubrick's stuff? Solaris? Alien? Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind?
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Blade Runner
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
not pre-80 but certainly pre 88
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Star Wars duh
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i seem to make some connection btwn star wars and empire strikes back but i may be rong
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah but SW isn't as visually striking as Empire can be.
And Blade Runner was the first thing I'd thought of, except the year's wrong
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
SW can be pretty striking - the opening scene for one but imo every shot is a work of art. Does have more limited environments though, just desert or spaceships.
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Also
shivers is great, like if romero directed an orgy flick
haaaaa I wish Blount was still around.
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2010 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I watched Empire again quite recently and was surprised by how well shot it is. Thinking especially of the stuff on Dagobah and almost everything on Bespin - the final battle between Luke and Vader is so atmospheric and powerful, esp the shadows, smoke and neon opening in the carbonite chamber.
― Bill A, Friday, 26 February 2010 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Apropos of nothing, the 1980 Oscar nominees for cinematography:
The Blue Lagoon (1980) - NĂ©stor AlmendrosCoal Miner's Daughter (1980) - Ralf D. BodeThe Formula (1980) - James Crabe Raging Bull (1980) - Michael Chapman (I)Tess (1979) - Geoffrey Unsworth; Ghislain Cloquet
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 26 February 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
(Sort of retrospectively shocking that The Shining was snubbed in favor of those first three nods, but I guess the movie's stature wasn't particularly high back in 1980.)
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 26 February 2010 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, seems amazing that it would miss out, especially to tat like The Blue Lagoon.
― Bill A, Friday, 26 February 2010 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently, the cinematography branch in the '70s was possibly the most insular of all academy branches, hence repeated nominations for, say, Owen Roizman for generally ruddy-looking movies.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 26 February 2010 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Ghislain Cloquet, btw, lensed Bresson films AND Woody Allen's Love and Death.
The Shining just utilized late Kubrick's usual, what is the word? Glare.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 February 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a challop for the ages...
― Bill A, Friday, 26 February 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
In fact, I think it was his first (and least) glare movie.The challops in 1980 was that The Shining didn't fucking suck.
so Croney doesn't have a new project ready to go?
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 February 2010 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
topic for the aged, perhaps.
eh except i agree with morbs totally there.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 26 February 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The challops in 1980 was that The Shining didn't fucking suck.
Yeah, I did say that already. Happily, time has been especially kind to that, Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut (i.e. Kubrick's three best films).
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 26 February 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I think you mean Paths of Glory, 2001 and Barry Lyndon <3
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 February 2010 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I think you should go to bed.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 26 February 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
good idea! maybe i'll put that Hal Holbrook movie on again...
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 February 2010 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Rituals, I hope?
― Shannon Whirry and the Bad Brains, Friday, 26 February 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
no, That Evening Sun to make me sleepy.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 February 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Shining was marketed like a slasher so it wasn't taken all that seriously at the time? Probably wasn't seen by a lot of academy voters anyway...
― Nate Carson, Friday, 26 February 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
thought he was doing that Philip Roth adaptation
― mark roflr (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 February 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
He was working on an opera of "The Fly," no foolin'. Don't know if that's still in progress, done, abandoned, or what.
― blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Friday, 26 February 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
thought that was over. Roth thing was posted here somewhere, something about a day-long cross-town journey of NY. I've never been able to stomach more than 10 pages of Roth so I dunno what book this was...
― mark roflr (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 February 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
daylong crosstown journey of ny sounds like delillo 'cosmopolis'
― johnny crunch, Friday, 26 February 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^that's it. mixed up Roth and Delillo, my bad.
― mark roflr (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 February 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Cronenberg is currently attached to direct an adaptation of The Talking Cure, set to star Keira Knightley, Christoph Waltz, and Michael Fassbender.[8]. He also plans to write and direct a film adaptation of Don Delillo's Cosmopolis.[9] He was also recently set to direct the film version of The Matarese Circle with Denzel Washington and Tom Cruise until Cruise backed out.
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Keira Fucking Knightley!
― Bill A, Friday, 26 February 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
May she be lucky enough to get one of the squishier body-mod roles
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Cronenberg + Fassbender, fuck yeah.
― Simon H., Friday, 26 February 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
She's just such a *nothing* in every role she plays, a charisma vacuum. Some balance might be achieved by Fassbender, who is ace and likely a perfect fit with C'berg's approach. I've only seen Waltz in IB, but he totally owned that.
ha! you beat me to it for the F/bender love Simon!
― Bill A, Friday, 26 February 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't wait to see how he messes with Knightley - there's something Hitchcockian about the way he treats women in his movies.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 26 February 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
The Talking Cure,
is this a freud biopic or something? wasn't somebody else working on a freud film? malick maybe?
― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 26 February 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
btw cronenberg is really on a roll lately.
― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 26 February 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
tonight's flicks are Rabid and Naked Lunch
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Saturday, 13 March 2010 07:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2f4q1iYBR1qz7gtqo1_500.jpg
pretty amped for this
― just sayin, Friday, 14 May 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i saw the fly as a little kid but just saw it again and HOLY SHIT IS IT A GOOD MOVIE
― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 May 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Interesting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/23/david-cronenberg-jonathan-lethem
― jaymc, Friday, 25 June 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh and I had no idea he was filming Cosmopolis. Hope it's better than the book!
― jaymc, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
All I know for sure is that the pic they chose for that article is awesome and a half.
― kenan, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/2010/6/23/1277301017096/Rome-Film-Festival-2008-D-006.jpg
I'd have desaturated it a bit, though. Sinister is good vibe for the pic, but evil Oompah-Loompah is... a different vibe. Like if the movie Elf was made by Cronenberg.
― kenan, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
The family wakes up to find him eating a bowl of vaginas for breakfast.
― kenan, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
not too jazzed about cosmopolis, but i am thrilled to hear that somebody's gonna take a shot at and she crawled across the table. fact that it's cronenberg is just icing.
― contenderizer, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link