Should Go Back To Making Horror and Sci Fi
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JohnQuincyPublic — 10 years ago(August 11, 2015 03:47 PM)
Thank goodness. How many other directors keep surprising their audiences pleasantly, I mean. Not like Terrence Malik, for example.
What are you saying? That Malick
unpleasantly
surprises his audience?
You're pretty lousy at this empty snark thing.
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TheBloodyNine — 14 years ago(February 19, 2012 08:19 AM)
I agree. TBH I really have not enjoyed the modern Cronenberg, his ultra realistic, grounded stories have just bored the beep out of me. They're well made and well acted, but I just wish he made something more engaging, Eastern Promises and The Dangerous Method were just so dry. I love the Fly, Videodrome, The Dead Zone and eXistenZ
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Curzon_Street — 13 years ago(April 12, 2012 09:35 PM)
This is SciFi, and there's plenty of violence, although I wouldn't call it horror.
http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/david-cronenberg-catching-fire-alfonso -cuaron/
David Cronenberg Catching Fire Possibility?
Unfortunately, neither Margarethe von Trotta nor Catherine Breillat is in the running as a replacement for Gary Ross, who officially left The Hunger Games' sequel Catching Fire a couple of days ago. The names currently being bandied about online (and purportedly by Lionsgate) belong to three North American males: Mexicans Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Canadian David Cronenberg (photo).
All three filmmakers would add "prestige" to Catching Fire, something that, if a Los Angeles Times report on the issue is to be believed, would please author Suzanne Collins, "who is much more interested in quality filmmaking than box-office prowess." Now, let's not be cynical. Aren't we all more interested in "quality filmmaking" than in "box-office prowess"? Really
If his speech at the Gotham Awards last year was genuine, Cronenberg might enjoy tackling something like Catching Fire. The director called himself "a complete fraud" after receiving a Career Tribute from a group honoring independent films, explaining that he has remained an "indie" filmmaker simply because "I've failed to sell out. I've tried endlessly, since the beginning, I've tried to sell out to Wall Street, to the studios, to the networks, to the bourgeoisie, to the mainstream, to the moneymen, and it has never worked out." Well, if this Catching Fire "list" isn't pure b.s., maybe now it's his chance.
Cronenberg's next release, which should benefit from the Catching Fire publicity, is Cosmopolis, featuring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, and others. The film opens in France in May, and has a good shot at getting screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
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franzkabuki — 13 years ago(April 15, 2012 11:57 PM)
AHOV & EP are excellent, but after having seen A Dangerous Method, I´m certainly on the verge of agreeing with the OP as it was such a bland, toothless, well mannered, even sort of superficial number. In fact, it´s his only film that´s virtually unrecognisible as Cronenberg´s work.
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JohnQuincyPublic — 10 years ago(August 11, 2015 04:05 PM)
In fact, it´s his only film that´s virtually unrecognisible as Cronenberg´s work.
I thought it was eminently recognizable as a Cronenberg film - I just didn't like it at all! lol
David Cronenberg comments on A DANGEROUS METHOD
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GeF_fEn — 11 years ago(May 19, 2014 03:20 AM)
@ OP.
I couldnt agree more OP!!! Ive been hoping that he would go back to make some more horror/sci-fi. I dont know why he made the movies that hes been making lately. Maybe cuz he become a little popular and people who had no idea who he was became aware of him with A History Of Violence. Those are the people who dont know much/or anything about movies. I absolutely think he should go back and do what he does best. On the other hand one cant blame the guy for wanting to try something different. -
coex — 11 years ago(March 09, 2015 07:53 AM)
I think it's great that he doesn't want to be stuck as a genre director forever, but I think the problem is he stopped coming up with his own stories. eXistenZ is great not because it's SF or horror, but because he can really write some amazing stuff! writing a script based on a comic book or some other book is nice, but Cronenberg shines when he bares his soul.
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JohnQuincyPublic — 10 years ago(August 11, 2015 03:49 PM)
He's the auteur, not you. He can do whatever he damn well pleases.
I would be happy just to see him write a new original screenplay!
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preachcaleb — 9 years ago(December 05, 2016 01:25 PM)
Gotta disagree. While Cosmopolis and A Map to the Stars were certainly his weakest in a long time, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises were well crafted stories that showed a maturity in Cronenberg's abilities.
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preachcaleb — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 06:54 AM)
How so?
We see Cronenberg actually use the violence in the movie to illustrate a point. It's not as, for lack of a better word, "fantastic" as in movies like The Fly or Videodrome.
It's real and it's brutal to highlight the brutality of it all. It's gruesome in an unsettling way. Which goes hand in hand with how Tom's own history of violence unsettles his family.
Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.