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animatronic flesh shoe

2006-06-28T21:44:49Z

http://www.brandejs.ca/portfolio5/shoe.php

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The New Flesh Audio CD

2006-04-17T17:31:26Z

I recently found an audio CD entitled "The New Flesh" by Rus Pay. It is dated 1999 and all tracks are "composed by Rus Pay and inspired by the movies of David Cronenberg". There are 10 tracks:
1)Shivers, 2)Rabid, 3)The Brood, 4)The Fly, 5)Crash, 6)Dead Zone, 7)Videodrome, 8)Naked Lunch, 9)eXistenZ, 10)Dead Ringers. It's quite good. I especially like the first and last tracks.

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Cronenberg interviewed in Toronto Star

2006-03-31T01:06:23Z

good stuff:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142549412884&call_pageid=976600361453&col=969048864482

and a summary:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060329n.php

sad to hear about Painkillers though:
"Painkillers is dead. Who knows about the future, but it's a script I wrote around 2000 and I have just sort of disconnected from it somehow. I feel like it's not something I want to pursue. I know Robert announced it at Cannes, but he was being a good producer by trying to make it become a reality. He was trying to excite me about my own project again. So it was a strange kind of situation, but for some reason, it just feels like it's something that I've done already so I've decided not to do it. He and I agreed to let it die. It still exists as a script, but that's it."

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The New Flesh

2006-03-30T21:57:44Z

I just stumbled upon this tribe and I'm sooo excited to see there are many other cronenberg fans out there. I dont know if any of you are into psychedelic trance music, but i recently made a mix titled "The New Flesh" which was inspired by the film.

Enjoy! Long live the new flesh!!!

http://gor.uchicago.edu/audio/moksa_the_new_flesh.mp3

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THE FLY special edition DVD

2006-03-30T21:54:42Z

I just got the new special edition DVD of Cronenberg's THE FLY ahead of street date and I just want to report to everyone that it's wonderful. I've been waiting for a special edition of this film from Fox since the laserdisc heyday (remember them?) of the 90s. Typical dry but intelligent commentary by DC. There is an extensive (and maybe too long) documentary that goes into a lot of detail on the production. We finally get to see the deleted monkey-cat and butterfly baby scenes. Let's just say I am really glad the latter never saw the light of day until now. Oh, and the movie itself really looks and sounds (DTS!) finally as great as it should.

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Happy Birthday David Cronenberg (63)

2006-03-15T17:53:28Z

stolen from imdb:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/bio

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Biography for
David Cronenberg

Birth name
David Paul Cronenberg
Height
5' 9" (1.75 m)
Mini biography

David "Deprave" Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father was a journalist, and his mother was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early age (he wrote and published eerie short stories, thus following his father's path) and for music (playing classical guitar until he was 12), Cronenberg graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Literature after switching from the science department. He reached the cult status of horror-meister with the gore-filled, modern-vampire variations of Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977), following an experimental apprenticeship in independent filmmaking and in Canadian television programs.

Cronenberg gained popularity with the head-exploding, telepathy-based Scanners (1981) after the release of the much underrated, controversial, and autobiographical The Brood (1979). Cronenberg become a sort of a mass media guru with Videodrome (1983), a shocking investigation of the hazards of reality-morphing television and a prophetic critique of contemporary aesthetics. The issues of tech-induced mutation of the human body and topics of the prominent dichotomy between body and mind were back again in The Dead Zone (1983) and The Fly (1986), both bright examples of a personal filmmaking identity, even if both films are based on mass-entertainment materials: the first being a rendition of a Stephen King best-seller, the latter a remake of famous American horror movie.

With Dead Ringers (1988) and Naked Lunch (1991), the Canadian director, no more a mere genre movie-maker but a fully realized auteur, got the acclaim of international critics. Such profound statements on modern humanity and ever-changing society are prominent in the provocative Crash (1996/I) and in the virtual reality essay of eXistenZ (1999), both of which well fared at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals. Cronenberg continues to be an active filmmaker today.
IMDb mini-biography by
Marco Rambaldi<rambaldi@hotmail.com>
Spouse
Caroline Zeifman (1979 - present) 3 children
Trade mark

His films generally involve the horror caused by a mutation, by a parasite, or by particular medical conditions.

Uses dark backgrounds.

Films often include explicit carnage.

Frequent references to the Flesh or the New Flesh.

Frequently uses the music of Howard Shore.

Frequently casts Robert A. Silverman.
Trivia

Costumes in his films are usually designed by his sister Denise Cronenberg.

Was set to direct Total Recall (1990). He even wrote a few drafts of the script before Paul Verhoeven took over.

Brother of costume designer Denise Cronenberg.

Father of Caitlin Cronenberg.

Uncle of Aaron Woodley

Is of German / Dutch descent

John Carpenter paid homage to him in Escape from New York (1981). One of the United States Police Force guards is on the line with Hauk, then adds that Cronenberg is on the line for him. Another person paid homage to in the movie was George A. Romero, who had Isaac Hayes's right-hand man named after him.

President of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999

Directed an episode of "Friday the 13th" (1987). 13 years later, he appeared in Jason X (2001).

Was offered the chance to direct Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) but he declined.

His crew referred to the final Brundlefly monster seen in the climax of The Fly (1986) as the Space Bug.

Father was a bookstore owner and sometime columnist for the Toronto Telegram. Mother was a piano rehearsal accompanist for the National Ballet.

Father died at age 61.

Deferred his own salary to make Spider (2002).

Father of Assistant Director Cassandra Cronenberg.
Personal quotes

"It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived as diseases which destroy a well-functioning machine, actually turn it into a new but still well-functioning machine with a different purpose. The AIDS virus: look at it from its point of view. Very vital, very excited, really having a good time. It's really a triumph if you're a virus. See the movies from the disease's point of view. You can see why they would resist all attempts to destroy them. These are all cerebral games but they have emotional correlatives as well.

"Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost."

"My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?"

"You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do."

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

"Drugs and creativity don't go together for me. Like everybody in the '60s, I had one acid trip and some cocaine and hash, you know, the stuff everyone did. But it's been 30 or 40 years since I bothered to do that. What I need is clarity. Even not having enough sleep is a problem for me, never mind doing any kind of drugs."

"Yeah, it is metaphorical...it isn't just a special effect in a vacuum." - on the exploding head in Scanners (1981).

"When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things, too. That's the consolation of philosophy."

"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true."

"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."

"I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontations. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film."

"If you look at a baby, the most fascinating thing to a baby, a newborn, is the human face. The baby will look at your face and watch your face move and want to touch it. If it's a fantastic head and what it's talking about is fantastic, then you can't have anything better. It's the best!"

"As an artist, your responsibility is to be irresponsible. As soon as you talk about social or political responsibility, you've amputated the best limbs you've got as an artist. You are plugging into a very restrictive system that is going to push and mold you, and is going to make your art totally useless and ineffective."

"Civilization is repression. You don't get civilization without repression of the unconscious, of the id. And the basic appeal of art is to the unconscious. Therefore, art is somewhat subversive of civilization. And yet at the same time it seems necessary for civilization. You don't get civilization without art."

"You need language for thought. And you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language. And no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible."

"If religion is used to allow you to come to terms with death, and also to guide you in how you live your life, then I think art can do the same thing. But in a schematic way, in a much less rigid and absolute way, which is why it appeals to me and religion doesn't."

"The versions of The Dead Zone (1983) and The Fly (1986) that you find on video carry my name, and they are the films that I made, but I hate the way they look on tape. Too bright."

"I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You're looking for every shot in the movie to have resonance and want it to be something you can see a second time, and then I'd like it to be something you can see 10 years later, and it becomes a different movie, because you're a different person. So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend. I have aspirations that the movie should trigger off a lot of complex responses."

"We've all got the disease - the disease of being finite. Death is the basis of all horror."

"As filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel."

"My movies are body conscious. The first fact of human existence is the human body. If you get away from physical reality, you're fudging, in fantasy-land-not coming to grips with what violence does."

"We question a country's self-mythology. Perfect town and perfect family are - like Westerns - part of America's mythology, involving notions of past innocence and naïveté. But is it possible for innocence to exist while something heinous transpires elsewhere? What does it take for a country to be rich and prosperous? What does that country do to the world?"

"To me, the life that we live is heaven. My idea of paradise is life on Earth. But we often don't know it, and can't see it that way, until, I'm sure, we start to leave it. I guess that's the way I feel about film."
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:

Highly influential horror director whose works are often metaphors for larger social questions. Cronenberg began directing films at the University of Toronto, where his experimental shorts Stereo (1969) and Crimes of the Future (1970) received much critical acclaim. His first feature, They Came From Within (1975) was partially financed by the CBC, which may have regretted supporting this lurid tale of parasites that induce uncontrollable sexual desire in their victims. This theme of released repression surfaced again in Rabid (1977), which starred former porn queen Marilyn Chambers as an unwitting sexual vampire. Cronenberg's fascination with "horror from within" continued with The Brood (1979), in which children are literally born from hatred, and Videodrome (1983), a sci-fi tour de force in which TV viewers are controlled by electronic signals embedded behind violent pornography. Cronenberg's successes with these independent productions led him to Hollywood, where he directed the big-budget, mainstream genre offerings The Dead Zone (1983) and The Fly (1986, also appearing on-screen as an obstetrician). He then helmed one of his most sophisticated films, Dead Ringers (1988), a chilling tale that starred Jeremy Irons (in a brilliant pair of performances) as twin gynecologists. Never one to shirk a challenge, Cronenberg proceeded to film the "unfilmable" William Burroughs novel Naked Lunch (1991). Then in 1993 he brought the challenging Broadway play M. Butterfly to the screen. The slender, bespectacled director again appeared onscreen as a convincing heavy in Clive Barker's Nightbreed (1990).

Copyright © 1994 Leonard Maltin, used by arrangement with Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.

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Why/How do you like Cronnenberg's movies?

2006-01-08T23:24:18Z

Personally I've had more than a few experiences with my own flesh that make his flicks more personal. All of the pimples and boils and ingrown hairs popped and plucked and picked, the random blond hair growning out of my forehead, starving myself as a teen and cutting and watching the would not heal, all these dark flesh moments I have seen in his work and more. Just the flavor of his vulgarity resonated with me.

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History Of Violence: DVD and Different Versions?

2005-12-09T18:23:15Z

I just read this over at thedigitalbits.com:
New Line will also release A History of Violence on 2/28 (SRP $28.98). The film will be offered on disc in anamorphic widescreen video, with Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 audio. Extras will include commentary by director David Cronenberg, a deleted scene (with commentary by Cronenberg), 4 featurettes (including Acts of Violence, Violence's History: United States Version vs. International Version, The Unmaking of Scene 44 and Too Commercial for Cannes) and the film's theatrical trailer.

....so, I'm wondering what was the difference between the US and International versions? Anyone know?

(on a side note, the DVD sounds terrific, but the cover art is a boring picture of the family instead of that great poster)

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My thoughts on A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (Massive Spoilers)

2005-10-01T07:31:24Z

I saw A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE Friday night. Here are some of my thoughts on the film itself and responses I've seen or heard elsewhere to it. I originally posted this at MHVF.net, a pretty fantastic film discussion board.

Generally, I felt it was another success for Cronenberg, a very understated, sly, and satirical thriller, that respects you as a thinking audience member to not spell it all out for you and trusts that you will meet the movie halfway. Cronenberg tends to bring out all time best performances out of already great actors. Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, William Hurt... yeah, I'd concur there. The whole cast is excellent.

This is definitely a Cronenberg film, and fits in well with any in-depth auteuristic view of his films. Like I said, he's not interested in always spelling things out for you, but it's there if you look for it. There is as little chance I'll continue discussing AHOV without any MASSIVE SPOILERS as there'd be that I'd take out my left eye with barbed wire, so beware...

Tom Stahl/Joey Cusack, or Joey/Tom depending on your thinking, is a classic Cronenbergian character as a freakish outsider who attempts to cope with his human condition through some sort of duality or change. For reasons ultimately unimportant to the plot, Joey decides that his identity as vicious expert killer is not "really him" and he undergoes a transformation into innocent sweet small-town cook Tom. This is eventually as gooey and destructive a metamorphosis as in THE FLY, but most of it is under the skin. Look at how it rips up and changes his entire family, like a cancer, with the acts of violence and attitudes about it changing them rapidly. There is a disturbing organic Cronenbergian quality about the behaviors and instincts we learn and inherit from our parents. Anyone who recognized these similar laughs, quirks, gestures, or beliefs can understand that haunting feeling that asks "How much of this is really me, and not just too much of them?" Joey/Tom, and the entire Joey/Tom family, are in civil war within themselves as much as Brundlefly, The Mantle Twins, or Samantha Eggar attempting to birth her rage out of her body.

Random Cronenbergian moments for me: The rough sex bruise on Maria Bello's back, much like in CRASH...Tom talking about Joey like he was another person, or a dead siamese twin he had removed...the 69 sex scene, suggesting the strange interactive ying-yangs of character we will see later...the staircase sex scene, turning everything from the first scene on it's head while pairing it and giving us another all-time great sex scene in terms of staging and acting as in DEAD RINGERS, CRASH, etc. ... of course, the violence, in all of its intimacy to flesh and horrible destructiveness to flesh...William Hurt's incredible first meeting with Joey, touching heads together as if joined there, both homoerotic and strangely biological at the same time... any others, fans?

I am a little confused as to the reactions to the film's content, both from my audience and other comments online. I can understand nervous laughter here and there, but I was hoping for a little more sophistication from a Lincoln Center area movie audience. People seemed to have a difficult time handling an oral sex scene without joining in with some giggles. Similar giggles spread through the theater during the entire diner robbery and violence. "Yeah, really ****ing funny," I remarked to my friend. Is it that Cronenberg can take a general Cape Fear-type thriller and twist each element on its ear to the nervous discomfort of any average American audience not prepared for his approach? Or am I not getting the satiric element of the diner scene? I would love to hear more in depth comments from those who think the film is purely funny or purely a satire. I certainly can see the satire in Joey picking the place and wife, and eventually raising a family, that are as most opposite of himself as he could. Hence the humor of the little blonde girl.

As the movie ended, I heard someone comment behind me "Well, I guess there's a justification for violence sometimes." Huh??? Protect our borders and right justifies might? That's all this person got out of it? This reminds me of how someone was overheard leaving GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS saying "Well, now I know not to trust real-estate salesmen over the phone!" or more specifically how many people saw the climax of UNFORGIVEN as justified revenge worth whooping up and cheering for. Yeah, I wanted to see Joey emerge from Tom like The Hulk and kill all those sonofabitches just as everyone else did. In the context and aftermath, the violence is exposed more fully for what it is, in very uncomfortable and unrewarding ways. And is it justified? In this film, most of the violence is metted out by Joey in order to continue to hide Joey. Tom would say it is to protect his family. Well, did he? What exactly did he preserve about his family, other than their lives? Everything that these people thought they were or wanted to be either is a lie or has been totally transformed. New Flesh indeed. I suppose it's a troubling question nowadays: Is something worth protecting if you totally transform its integrity?*

I like the thought of this film as the anti-superhero movie. It's the story of an arch-villian with "super-powers" to kill fast and quickly with no remorse, travelled here from a strange far-away land called Philly, who hides his secret identity by posing as mild-mannered short-order cook Tom Stahl. His Metropolis or Gotham City is his immediate family and home, plus where he works. His identity confusion seems on par with Bruce Wayne's, especially in the way Tom talks about Joey. And despite his Superman-level of community acclaim for Joey's ability at killing, Joey/Tom is still that cold-blooded monster who wasn't content with just killing a man but half-blinding him with barbed wire instead. If more goons were to show up in that town to be dealt with, would his sheer brutality continue to meet cheers? Would he necessarily be even heroic in anyone's eyes? Would they even see the difference between those killers and their killer? I definitely have to read the graphic novel, even if the film is a very loose adaptation.

So, in short, go see it. Cronenberg triumphs again in his continuing probing of the human condition with his cinematic instruments for operating on the sensibilities of mutant audiences. This would work excellently in a film series with STRAW DOGS, FARGO, and UNFORGIVEN.

*Before anyone turns those comments into a big political thing, let me remind y'all that Cronenberg himself has resisted any current political connections, gently mentioning that America doesn't have a monopoly on the use of violence in it's creation/mutation/cronenbergian transformation.

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um..., uh..., hmm...

2005-09-29T00:13:02Z

Eccentric film-maker DAVID CRONENBERG shocked his cast and crew on the set of new movie A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, by publicly performing sex scenes with his wife.

The director hoped his explicit displays of affection with his wife would help stars VIGGO MORTENSEN and MARIA BELLO, who play man and wife in the film, feel more comfortable during their sex scenes together.

But, instead, the Cronenbergs just left everyone on the set stunned.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS star Mortensen says, "There's a couple of fairly racy sex scenes in the movie... between Maria Bello and myself. David, trying to be helpful, as usual, thought it might be a good idea to call up his wife and have her come down to the set.

"The crew and Maria and I just sat and watched while he and his wife got into something comfortable - nothing - and they started to say, 'We want you to (do this).' Maria and I were both going, 'OK, we get it.'

"This is a testament to their relationship, they kept going and they kept going and then we broke for lunch and some time in the evening Maria and I got to have a crack at it.

"Instead of putting us at ease, we actually were kind of freaked out... Maybe some things ought to stay private."

http://contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/cronenbergs%20public%20sex

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AUDIO - Cronenberg on KCRW

2005-09-28T22:46:50Z

http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=tt&air_date=9/28/05&tmplt_type=show

Wednesday, September 28, 2005
David Cronenberg
Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director David Cronenberg, whose films include The Fly, Naked Lunch, Crash, Spider and his newest film, A History of Violence.

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Spider DVD

2005-09-15T01:57:26Z

Just watched it with the Director's commentery. It was dry but good. It was just Mr. C., but I would have liked other people in production as well. The extra interviews were great too. I thought the story was pretty simple when I saw it in the theatre and I did get some of the stranger psychological things that were going on, but the commentary did clue me into some motivations that were beyond me.
Overall, nice, damn nice.

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A History Of Violence

2005-07-17T16:12:07Z

excellent article on cronie and the upcoming "A History of Violence":
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_07.22.04/film/mediumcool.html

IMDB listing:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/

info on the original graphic novel (which I have not read, and am having trouble finding):
http://www.rzero.com/books/HistoryOfViolence.html

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Videodrome Criterion DVD!!

2005-06-17T14:54:36Z

Long live the new flesh: Fans of David Cronenberg's ahead-of-its-time 1983 sci-fi extravaganza Videodrome, about a radical vision of mankind's future relationship with our television sets, should rejoice. The Criterion Collection is giving the cult classic the Rolls-Royce treatment, complete with a fresh transfer of the unrated ''director's cut'' of the film, commentary tracks by Cronenberg, James Woods and Deborah Harry, a new documentary about the movie's groundbreaking special effects, and loads of other goodies.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/weekend/8825149.htm?1c

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Least Favorite Cronenberg Film(s)

2005-05-06T12:43:55Z

I only have one. I anticipated it's release like no other Cronenburg film. I was so excited that he was the one doing. I felt that no other director would be able to capture the moods & feelings. HE TOTALLY FAILED:

Crash

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Spider [possible spoilers]

2005-04-30T05:22:27Z

Has anyone seen Spider? http://imdb.com/title/tt0278731/

I thought it was great, nice twist at the end, and a strong and assured sense of direction. I didn't realize what Miranda Richardson was doing till more than half-way through. Maybe I am just not as familiar with her face so I didn't recognize her in the right places. Ralph Fiennes was very good, though it's was difficult to get much from his performance since it was so subdued (intentionally, of course).

Obviously this is not strictly standard Cronenberg fare, but that sense of obfuscated identity/reality and general malaise felt extremely familiar.

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Scanners sequels

2005-04-29T18:00:35Z

never saw 'em - Scanners II and Scanner Cop - I don't think they're on DVD - I know Cronenberg didn't do them, but are they worth tracking down on VHS for the helluvit?

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CLIVE BARKER presents THE BROOD, FEB 17th 2005

2005-02-18T16:26:14Z

This looks cool. If I was Hell-A located, I'd definitely beat a path down to this screening. I'd love to hear Clive Barker's take on Cronenberg's BROOD. Any denizens of the City of Angels planning to attend?

CLIVE BARKER presents THE BROOD
Thursday, February 17, 7:30 p.m. $10 General, $8 Members*, $6 Students
Advance tickets: (866) 468-3399 or (service charges apply)
In this memorably twisted film by David Cronenberg, a newly and unhappily divorced woman, Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar), seeks treatment from an eccentric psychiatrist (Oliver Reed). Using the doctor’s innovative, theatrical methods, Nola is encouraged to work through her feelings of hurt and rage over the breakup of her marriage through bodily manifestation. But Nola goes a step further: she gives birth to living incarnations of her deepest, darkest impulses, generating deformed children on a killing spree against Nola’s ex-husband (Art Hindle) and his loved ones. (1979, 92 min.)

Bestselling horror and fantasy writer and filmmaker Clive Barker is perhaps best known for the highly acclaimed horror flick Hellraiser, which marked his feature-film directing debut. Based on a novella by Barker entitled The Hellbound Heart, the film has developed a loyal cult following and has spawned several lines of comic books and three movie sequels. In 1995, he directed his second feature film, the fantastic Lord of Illusions. Barker was also the executive producer of Candyman, which was based on his short story "The Forbidden."

A moderated discussion with Barker follows the screening.

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Videodrome playing at Castro in SF

2005-02-06T05:14:55Z

This Monday Videodrome playing at 7:00, and 9:15. Anyone going?

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Cronenberg's Birthday

2005-01-20T01:41:56Z

March 15th, david cronenberg's birthday.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/

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Cronenberg Sucks!!

2005-01-20T01:40:18Z

I posit that David Cronenberg is a horrid filmaker, relying on shock tactic, misogyny, homophobia, fear of sex, sensationalism, and perversion to carry his so-called films. Your assignment is to defend him against these accusations... GO!

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Thoracic Cavity Storage T-Shirt

2004-09-01T06:36:33Z

http://www.koyono.com/bct/BCTgallery5.htm

I gotta get me one of these, covered in the material from the "faux human skin" bags.

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Looking for Cronenberg press coverage/interviews

2004-08-03T21:21:49Z

Hello,

I am searching for any rare or hard to find interviews of Cronenberg on video, preferably any footage of "Crash," including press coverage, interviews, or film festival footage. Please e-mail me at seinwiz83@yahoo.com
Thanks.

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skin bags

2004-07-29T22:16:11Z

not sure if this is exactly cronie-stylee, but check out:
http://www.skinbag.net/skinbag-gb/code/modeles.html

clothing and accessories made out of faux human skin. heehee-whaaaaa!

the laptop case especially seems extremely *apropos*
http://www.skinbag.net/skinbag-gb/fiches/F-computer.html

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Dead Zone

2004-05-22T04:13:51Z

Okay, I have an open question for all of you. I am a huge Stephen King fan, and am writing my thesis on (among other topics) The Dead Zone. My question relates to the fact that I am a King fan looking at a Cronenberg film, and I want to know how the reverse feels. As Cronenberg fans, how does this film stack up to his other films? How does it compare to his other adaptations? Do you think that it was appropriate for him to do this film? It seems to me that Scanners really set him up for this adaptation, it is most Dead Zone like, do you agree? Any Dead Zone issues you want to get off your chest?
Thanks for talking with me!

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Shorts

2004-05-20T03:28:45Z

Some rare movies spotting.

Just by chance checking out a web site and found that there are a couple of short films available. Both of them are in DVD-r format, which mean they are some sort of pirate, but nonetheless I never saw it anywhere else before.

There's a disk called "David Cronenberg Shorts", which I think clone from a Japanese released. There are 2 shorts in it: "The Lie Chair" and "Peep Show". Both were dated 1976.

And then, there's another one called "The short films of David Cronenberg" with 2 earlier movies "Stereo" and "Crimes of the future". I think someone will release this as a legit version soon, but my curiousity is building.

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Not as off-topic as you MIGHT think..

2004-04-01T16:26:35Z

Any J G Ballard fans who feel the British writer may have been HARDLY DONE BY with DC's treatment of 'Crash'? And if you're a BONAFIDE fan - is there any OTHER JGB story you think DC should have a shot at.. ya know just to redeem himself??

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London Fields

2004-03-22T21:42:38Z

Don't know what this does to History Of Violence, the *other* new Cronenberg project, but david has signed on to helm London Fields, screen adaptation of Martin Amis' book. It's a great book, and seems to fit well with cronie's works.

http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4008
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David Cronenberg (Spider) is directing London Fields, based on Martin Amis' 1991 novel of the same name.

The script, written by Roberta Hanley and Amis, follows a promiscuous psychic troubled by disturbing premonitions that are all the more unnerving for never being wrong. The story is set in and around a seedy London pub, where the psychic has come to meet the end her dreams have foretold: to be murdered by one of two men she meets there -- but which one?

No distributors have come aboard as yet, but discussions are taking place with several, and the film is going out to cast.
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Fast Company

2004-03-09T08:23:13Z

Did anyone enjoy Cronemberg's "Fast Company"?

Hehe... I'm just joking.

Well... maybe someone liked it!

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Dead Dreamer

2004-03-05T23:15:51Z

Have y'all seen this guys artwork and website? Go to http://www.deaddreamer.com and there it is: "long live the new flesh" posted right under his name. I'm not sure if it's a direct reference to Cronenberg, but his artwork really touches me in the same way. A true fusion of technology, sexuality, and perfect overtones of strange geekyness.

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history of violence

2004-02-20T20:45:44Z

a NEW new cronenberg project:
http://www.killermovies.com/h/ahistoryofviolence/articles/3664.html

David Cronenberg has signed to direct A History of Violence, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Adapted by Josh Olson from John Wagner and Vince Locke's graphic novel of the same name, A History of Violence tells the story of an ordinary family's life after the father receives unwanted national attention for a seemingly vigilante-style self-defense killing at his diner.

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In My Skin

2004-02-14T19:01:57Z

Anybody see this yet? not out on DVD yet, so I'll have to wait it out, but it's being compared to cronenberg thematically. sounds horrifically wonderous!
http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/i/in-my-skin.shtml

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Butthole Surfers mini movie

2004-02-14T10:08:19Z

Has anyone seen the Butthole Surfers' Hairway To Steven mini-movie/video. It's a disturbing home video parody about a family that encounters a Manson family-esque barbecue joint that serves a disturbingly familiar kind of meat (hint: it tastes like pork, but its not). Anyway, as the family walks through the picnic area, the camera pans by various band members. One of the girls is watching a little tv with a loop of the Scanners head bursting scene playing over and over again, while giggling maniacally to herself. Now you kids try this at home.

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Favorite Cronenberg Films?

2004-02-10T21:14:27Z

So, my little freak fans, what is at the top of your list for the works of the Canadian Horrormeister. Mr. Cronenberg?

For me, It's a tough battle between Videodrome and Naked Lunch. Both pure concentrated Cronenberg, but completely different directions for his audience. Obviously Naked Lunch was an interpretation of the ultimate un-filmable novel by W.S. Burroughs, but I think it was a perfect conduit for his vision of the fallibility of the human condition.

Pray tell, what is your ultimate in his oeuvre?

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cronenberg world

2004-02-08T05:07:50Z

would you want to live in a world that was like the one's that he creates in his films? i would love to be able to live in a reality where the type of things he imagines could be reality.

a world of organic machinery, exploding heads...(its 2am & i'm sure i'm not expressing myself well).

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Painkillers...

2004-02-01T22:02:17Z

Has anyone heard any news about Cronenberg's next project - Painkillers?

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DC Influenced Music

2004-01-22T03:33:21Z

...and, how'z about muzik? Off the top of my head:

Matmos - Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure
Skinny Puppy
Wumpscut
???

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crash!

2004-01-20T04:34:47Z

get your crash freak on with a big-rig crash gallery:
http://www.truckweb.ca/Fto_Paule_Wreck1.htm

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Completist...

2004-01-14T00:28:32Z

FAST COMPANY, STEREO and CRIMES OF THE FUTURE to be released on DVD:

http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=1847

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David Cronenberg to Guest Star on Alias

2003-12-04T17:13:04Z

If you get the show Alias on your telly, keep an eye out for a guest appearance by DC on Nov 30th:
http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=2279

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Cronenberg Influenced Artwork

2003-12-01T03:49:31Z

I would like to see what the members of Tribe Cronenberg see as further visual accompaniment to the works of David Cronenberg. Do you have links to artists or images that stick in the fleshy recesses of your mind near where you store your fears and memories?

just a few to start:

http://www.sub88.com/
http://www.johnslep.net/artwork.html
http://www.finelinefeatures.com/crash/cmp/art.html

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Cronemberg themes

2003-11-17T14:42:24Z

For me MOST of his films deal with the notion that we as a society should ALL be very 'careful what we wish for' as our scientific developments and creations WILL inevitably turn against us someday: think tvs, videogames, hyper-drugs, genetic engineering etc.

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Naked Lunch Criterion DVD

2003-11-16T07:06:11Z

Time to get your freak on, as the Criterion DVD of Naked Lunch was released today:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000CDUT5/ref=nosim/notistru-20/

Mine is already on it's way. C'mon, you know you want it.

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DC #9 out of Top 40 Directors

2003-11-14T17:57:06Z

A very good list, by the way. Any list compiled outside of the walls of Hollywood is a step in the right direction IMHO. I have some opinions about some of the rankings here, but I'll save them for another tribe.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/page/0,11456,1082823,00.html

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Cronenberg Online

2003-11-11T00:14:20Z

Leave your links to the best Cronenberg pages and info here! I'll get it started with:

INFO:
http://www.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Cronenberg,+David

FAN SITES:
http://www.davidcronenberg.de/
http://freespace.virgin.net/kevin.bishop3/

INTERVIEWS:
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/30/cronenberg/
http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3909/avfeature_3909.html
http://www.splicedonline.com/features/cronenberg.html

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