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David Cronenberg on “Crimes of the Future”
- labrador 4y agoSet in a haunted, ancient-yet-avant-garde Athens where people cut each other up for kicks... No thanks, I've had enough of Cronenberg for one life
- beepbooptheory 4y agoYou will be left behind as the world changes, holding on to an expired sanctity. The New Flesh has no need for those who would judge sentences instead of organs!
- Bayart 4y agoIt's very much in the lineage of Videodrome and Existenz.
- codingrightnow 4y agoThe movie was terrible, goofy, uninteresting. Don't waste your time if his material already isn't interesting to you.
- n0us 4y agoThis was one of the strangest movies I’ve seen in years, in a good way
- jokowueu 4y agoIt was a fantastic movie . Kristen Stewart was phenomenal in this movie .
- Mistletoe 4y agoPost Twilight I’m a huge unabashed Kristen Stewart fan. Saw her in some Olivier Assayas movies at the art museum and fell in love.
- yamtaddle 4y agoI also now see Pattinson's involvement in a film as a sign it's gonna at least be worth a watch. All I can figure is the script and director demanded wooden, bad acting in the Twilight films, for whatever reason.
- WirelessGigabit 4y agoYea, same with Daniel Radcliffe. Emma Watson fails to do anything good since HP.
- Jare 4y agoI'm ready to bet that both Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattison will get an Oscar in the next 5 years. They are fantastic and it's crazy that both would get the big spotlight thanks to that bankable but utterly uninteresting franchise.
- TechnicolorByte 4y agoWish I could share the enthusiasm. Felt like it wasn’t saying anything interesting. That or I missed the point because much of the dialogue was hard to understand in the theater.
- bee_rider 4y agoIn a sense, this is a “process” film, devoted to the nuts and bolts of creation, and thus one of Cronenberg’s densest and most pedantic outings. Yet it’s somehow also among his most immediate works—a kind of intellectual road map for the contemplation of existential questions of such overwhelming scale and urgency that few artists dare to confront them so directly. Does anyone know what a process film is, or what it means for a movie to be pedantic? I can’t make heads or tails of this, but I’m glad (sincerely and unsarcastically) that Cronenberg is around to make movies for people who can!
- slibhb 4y agoYou don't have to intellectualize movies to enjoy them.
- bee_rider 4y agoI agree. Some people enjoy movies more by intellectualizing them, though, and certain directors seem to have more to offer them.
- pessimizer 4y agoI suspect that by "process" film, they mean a film about the process of doing something.
- autoexec 4y agoI'm guessing a process film is this: In The Process Genre Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky introduces and theorizes the process genre—a heretofore unacknowledged and untheorized transmedial genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-process-genre https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-process-genre a 'pedantic film' may just mean it's unimaginative/boring, or even ostentatious/preachy
- Slow_Hand 4y agoCrikey. The writing from that excerpt is tedious to parse. Why is academic writing so often insufferable? Are there any other genres of writing that are usually this clunky to read? Maybe legal writing?
- cpeterso 4y agoIf you like David Cronenberg's work, definitely check out his son Brandon Cronenberg's films "Antiviral" and "Possessor".
- e40 4y agoPossessor is on Hulu... thanks!
- arcade79 4y agoI "snuck" in to watch Crash, by Cronenberg, at a con in '96 or '97. I was among the crew/organizers at the con, so "snuck" is an exaggeration. Anyhow. I was 16 or 17 at the time. It was rated 18 in my country at the time. It should've been rated NSFL. :-) I've never watched a Cronenberg since. I'm sure he makes good movies, but .. eh, I developed a healthy scare for his movies watching Crash.
- wellthisisgreat 4y agoCheck out his non-horror stuff: History of Violence, Eastern Promises
- andrei_says_ 4y agoI thought xistenz was also great. some body horror present though.
- zeruch 4y agoIf you skip his body horror films (which admittedly is 70+ percent of his oeuvre), and look at Eastern Promises, Maps of the Stars, A Dangerous Method, or a History of Violence, and you'll likely come away with a different view. Crash, Dead Ringers, and the Fly, while exceptionally interesting films, and well directed, are definitely difficult for a lot of audiences.
- doublepg23 4y agoWhile it's rough at times I think Videodrome is worth watching even if you don't care for body horror.
- dysoco 4y agoTo be fair I found Crash to be his most boring film, wouldn't watch again, eXistenZ is effing great