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
and, as, whatever
I saw the trailer for A Dangerous Method tonight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ7JKmcLTsI
I haven't liked a Cronenberg film since Dead Ringers, but this one looks good. "From the director of A History of Violence and Eastern Promises," though--ouch. What next, "From the director of Shutter's Island and The Aviator"?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
"From the director of his last two movies..."
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
Nice!
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
stooooked for this
― thick-necked and hateful (latebloomer), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 05:21 (twelve years ago) link
This looks ace.
"From the director of A History of Violence and Eastern Promises,"
I really like them both, and coming after a long run of commercial failures it doesn't surprise me that this trailer plays on them. I suspect there's plenty of people who saw them that know next to nothing about Cronenberg's earlier stuff (except maybe The Fly), and in box-office terms there cannot be any harm in reminding people about his previous work with Viggo; I've a co-worker who I'd never have taken for a C'berg viewer who stans for both of these primarily because of "that lovely man"!
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
From a commercial standpoint, you're right. I'm just such a fan of his '80s work and so indifferent to the later films that it hit a discordant note. Maybe they could split the difference and at least mention The Fly, which was a big hit at the time and probably known to most everyone through TV or video.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
yeah saw this preview awhile ago - looks promising
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I do kinda wish he would return to horror/sci-fi at some point tho
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link