Cronenberg

[James]

Your favorite Cronenberg flick?

[TheGSMoeller]

My goodness what an impressive list of films. Cronenberg has produced some of the most original, and best, films of the past 25 years. Naked Lunch, Crash, and Dead Ringers make for an excellent three in a row grand slam. And yes, Crash is an amazing film. Spider and Eastern Promises deserve more attention, wonderful characters and plots.

My vote went to Dead Ringers.

[mn dave]

I went Dead Zone.

[mn dave]

Oh, also, this...

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[snyprrr]

Boy but doesn't he need to get back on the MAKE GOOD MOVIES wagon?? wtf?? and MORE of them?


maybe now that we know that the rothcild banks are the true monsters we don't need him to divert our attention?


SCANNERS --- BOOOOOM!!!!!!!!

[Drasko]

Videodrome or Dead Ringers or Crash. I'll go for Crash.

[DavidW]

Scanners and Videodrome but I like them all.

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!

[bigshot]

The Mugwump who hangs over my bar likes Naked Lunch.

[Octave]

The Mugwump who hangs over my bar likes Naked Lunch.

Oh my god, is that really yours?  And a MARS ATTACKS Martian?!  How did you manage that?  Are those genuine movie props?

[snyprrr]

The Mugwump who hangs over my bar likes Naked Lunch.

yea, that's not least bit disturbing

[Octave]

yea, that's not least bit disturbing

It's perfect: stand by the bar, and you need the drink!

One film that got "othered" but not mentioned is DC's ostensibly-anomalous FAST COMPANY, which I guess is "for completists only".  Though the obsession dimension fits the auteurist "themes" checklist.  And some of those loving, tactile images of automotive innards....

[Octave]

Another one not listed ("othered"), which I saw recently, is M. BUTTERFLY (1993), based on the play by David Henry Hwang.  I liked it but it does somehow seem like an outlier in the Cronenberg oeuvre.  Just a few days ago, I was amused to see this movie pointedly referenced in an Albert Brooks comedy (MOTHER) from 1996.

I really wish I'd seen Hwang perform the key role in his own play.

[TheGSMoeller]

The word out there is that M. Butterfly is not really a strong movie, one of his definite weakier efforts. Again, I wouldn't mind seeing it as a curiosity.

Watched Cronenberg's ganster movie a few days back .. Eastern Promises .. great stuff, and I'd put it right up with there with The Godfather, Goodfellas etc.

I ordered A Dangerous Method ..

Eastern Promises is fantastic, only Cronenberg could have created such a tense atmosphere with this material, and it's done without any guns or explosions, etc. It's a form of intensity that is commonly found within Cronenberg's films, and no other filmmaker has made humans seem so strange, brooding or alien within our normal everyday society. Perhaps Lynch is close, but he paints earth as in a parallel universe.

[bigshot]

Oh my god, is that really yours?  And a MARS ATTACKS Martian?!  How did you manage that?  Are those genuine movie props?

Yes, it's from the scene at the end where they are loading dead martians on a stake bed truck.

I had a friend who worked in effects and would dumpster dive when the studios he worked for were emptying their storage lockers. He showed up at my front door one day unannounced with monsters slung over his back and sheepishly told me his wife wouldn't allow them in the house. I'm single, so... here they stay.

[bigshot]

yea, that's not least bit disturbing

If you think that's bad, you should see THE BATHROOM OF HORRORS. I have friends who refuse to set foot in it and walk all the way to the other end of the house to go to the bathroom.

[bigshot]

I've managed to evade the yolk for my first half century.

[North Star]

Eastern Promises is fantastic, only Cronenberg could have created such a tense atmosphere with this material, and it's done without any guns or explosions, etc. It's a form of intensity that is commonly found within Cronenberg's films, and no other filmmaker has made humans seem so strange, brooding or alien within our normal everyday society. Perhaps Lynch is close, but he paints earth as in a parallel universe.

Hm, I suppose I should watch it sometime soon, it's been waiting in the media box for 14 months..

[petrarch]

What an intriguing & intimate period piece, up there with the very best. Intellectually stimulating, but also wonderfully shot and brilliantly acted.

It is an interesting movie, though it feels somewhat artificial (it doesn't help that I don't like Keira Knightley at all, however I do like Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender quite a bit). My fave Cronenberg is Eastern Promises.

[Mirror Image]

I always loved Cronenberg's adaptation of The Fly. The mutation and sheer psychological effects of this mutation are caught in a truly eerie way. This is hands down my favorite Cronenberg film. I might not watch it that often, but it's a film that has stayed with me since I was a kid.