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As Penetration Fantasies Go, eXistenZ Is a Tease
David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ is, among other things, a typographical nightmare with a futuristically inspired 16-item glossary of its own. As in several of his previous horrific enterprises, most...
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Toronto Festival: Post-9/11 Cinema
Suit up and plunge: The 27th Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing, and diversity is the name of the game in a post-9/11 cinematic world. While New York struggles with loss and recovery,...
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A Web of Narrative Trickery Snares Connoisseurs of Horror
David Cronenberg’s Spider , from a novel and screenplay by Patrick McGrath, provides the perfect title, if not quite the ideal subject, for an auteur who, in 14 feature films, has created his own genre...
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Death Row Double-Cross
Slapping itself to death with red herrings, convoluted bleeding-heart propaganda and contrived plot maneuvers so confusing even Brian De Palma would have ordered a rewrite, The Life of David Gale is...
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Stunning History: Are We Numb to Film Violence?
David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, from a screenplay by Jack Olson, based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, may go down in movie history as the suspenseful thriller in which...
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Eastern Promises and Across the Universe Threaten to End Damon Gravy Train
The Brave One may have made the most money in Manhattan over the quiet weekend, but Eastern Promises and the musical Across the Universe made the most noise. David Cronenberg’s follow-up to last year’s...
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Russian Roulette
EASTERN PROMISES Running Time 96 minutes Directed by David Cronenberg Written by Steve KnightStarring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, from a screenplay by Steve...
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Bad Company
“Htory of Violence kind of worked like a long preparatory experience for Eastern Promises. Like a dress rehearsal,” said Viggo Mortensen, via phone from the Toronto Film Festival where last Saturday...
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Wild Thing, I Think I Love You …
It looks like Resident Evil: Extinction (#1) will not be following its own advice. After a $24 million dollar opening weekend, the Sony franchise based on a video game looks like it is here to stay....
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Cronenberg Casts Washington in Cold War Thriller
David Cronenberg’s crossover into the mainstream is almost complete. The indie stalwart, who got back on the Hollywood radar after modest successes with A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, is...
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Tom Cruise: The Comeback Kid!
A funny thing happened on the way to the funeral being held for Tom Cruise’s career … Valkyrie became a hit. Well, maybe calling it a "hit" is a bit too much. But still, the film, which was dragged...
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NYFF Announces Its Galas: A Dangerous Method, The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodovar (Getty Images) The New York Film Festival is ready to party. On top of its opening night, centerpiece, and closing gala, the Festival is to throw itself two additional galas: for Pedro...
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Freud and Jung’s Hunky Hollywood Iterations are Gluttons for Keira Knightly’s...
Mortenson as Frued. An antiseptic departure for shock jock David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method is a psychological tug of war between the father of modern psychiatry, Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortenson),...
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Creative Destruction: Robert Pattinson Perfectly Bad in Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
What is to be done with Robert Pattinson? The monumentally popular actor from the Twilight series—which is mercifully grinding to a close later this year—utterly lacks magnetism onscreen. Without the...
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Slideshow: Other Reasons Famous Directors Passed on ‘True Detective Season 2’
Last week Vulture posted the most amazing #DirectorBurn of all time from the Reykjavik International Film Festival, where David Cronenberg opened up about passing on the opportunity to direct the...
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Holly Hunter, Back on the Big Screen
The Academy Award-nominated actress talks Hollywood, politics and the intersection of the two.
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Better Learning Through Criterion: The Five Best Films to Buy For Your...
Working in the music/DVD room at my local Barnes & Noble indeed has its pros and cons. But perhaps the biggest struggle for us film geeks on the payroll is resisting the urge to blow through our...
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David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ is, among other things, a typographical nightmare with a futuristically inspired 16-item glossary of its own. As in several of his previous horrific enterprises, most...
View ArticleToronto Festival: Post-9/11 Cinema
Suit up and plunge: The 27th Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing, and diversity is the name of the game in a post-9/11 cinematic world. While New York struggles with loss and recovery,...
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