The Cronenberg Thread

daylong crosstown journey of ny sounds like delillo 'cosmopolis'

^^^that's it. mixed up Roth and Delillo, my bad.

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.

Keira Fucking Knightley!

May she be lucky enough to get one of the squishier body-mod roles

Cronenberg + Fassbender, fuck yeah.

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!

I can't wait to see how he messes with Knightley - there's something Hitchcockian about the way he treats women in his movies.

The Talking Cure,

is this a freud biopic or something? wasn't somebody else working on a freud film? malick maybe?

btw cronenberg is really on a roll lately.

tonight's flicks are Rabid and Naked Lunch

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2f4q1iYBR1qz7gtqo1_500.jpg

pretty amped for this

i think i saw the fly as a little kid but just saw it again and HOLY SHIT IS IT A GOOD MOVIE

Interesting.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/23/david-cronenberg-jonathan-lethem

Oh and I had no idea he was filming Cosmopolis. Hope it's better than the book!

All I know for sure is that the pic they chose for that article is awesome and a half.

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.

The family wakes up to find him eating a bowl of vaginas for breakfast.

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.

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"?

"From the director of his last two movies..."

Nice!

stooooked for this

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"!

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.

yeah saw this preview awhile ago - looks promising

I do kinda wish he would return to horror/sci-fi at some point tho

"from the director of shivers and videodrome" did not test well

I don't think he needs the gross stuff anymore, though. For me, The Dead Zone and Dead Ringers are my ideal for a Cronenberg film (there's a bit of gore in each).

ugh Dead Ringers fuck that movie

Dead Zone is aces tho

and it's not the gross-out stuff I pine for (there's plenty of that in his last few!) it's the conceptual audacity, the ideas that go beyond the psychodramas of criminals and neurotics

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

I love The Dead Zone. I distinctly remember that a lot of Cronenberg fans at the time thought it was tepid, even a sell-out--those who loved Rabid and [i]Shivers and The Brood--but for me it's close to perfect, with Walken's performance the best found in any Cronenberg film. I'm surprised you're so down on Dead Ringers; if nothing else, I'd say it's conceptually audacious.

PTT just posted one of my favourite line readings in any film ever.

better title: Hunks of Psychoanalysis

^^

lol

i am stoked for this but then i will watch anything he does at least once. (and many of them i will watch many, many times.)

there's a thread for it btw

A Dangerous Method -- David Cronenberg/Viggo Mortensen's latest

i can't see why they didn't go with something simple like spanking miss knightley

― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Tuesday, June 21, 2011

My post up there comes across as a bit more pro box-office than I really mean; I absolutely love his earlier stuff (esp. The Dead Zone and Videodrome), but also dig how he's maintained a lot of the weirdness yet managed to make money since he and Viggo's bromance took root. I remember the first time I saw AHoV and the rasping shot-away jawbone bit just felt like a *pure* Cronenberg moment.

I can see I already gave her both barrels way upthread, but it still seems a shame that he's bought into the Keira Knightley hype for this, when the male cast is so stellar in comparison. Again though, she will get tickets sold, despite what sounds like the best "russian" accent this side of Malkovich in Rounders.

I'm surprised you're so down on Dead Ringers; if nothing else, I'd say it's conceptually audacious.

I'm just don't find the central conceit - TWO Jeremy Irons'! - all that interesting. I can see how it must have been fun/challenging to make given the technology at the time, but I don't find anything particularly interesting about the symbiotic, self-destructive relationship of two twins, it kind of goes nowhere.

xp

like I get it, they're different, but they're also THE SAME DO U SEE *snore*

would watch any movie where viggo plays freud tbh, cronenberg or no

is there a thread of missing contenderizer

i think keira knightley's a good actress and also i'm excited to see her get spanked *old italian guy leer*

xposts: yeah i mean there were parts of eastern promises (which i loved) that coulda been any gangster drama but then there were the close-ups of viggo snipping a corpse's fingers off with a pair of garden shears. plus one of the most brutal and literally balls-out fight scenes of the last couple years, so it's not as if dude's gone all genteel on us.

he got the only diverting performance out of both JIs that i've ever seen, plus genevieve b is always watchable -- but DR's arc "story arc" is just \

i kinda felt like the camera regarded the baby at the end of EP like some kind of special effects monster too