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David Cronenberg |
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Director / Screenwriter /
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1943 - |
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Born March 15,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Key
Production Countries: Canada, USA, UK |
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Key Genres:
Science Fiction, Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi Horror, Psychological Drama,
Erotic Drama, Sex Horror |
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Key
Collaborators: Ronald Sanders (Editor), Carol Spier (Production
Designer), Howard Shore (Composer), Peter Suschitzky (Cinematographer), Mark Irwin
(Cinematographer), Robert A. Silverman (Character Player), Claude Heroux (Producer),
Nicholas Campbell (Leading Character Player), Les Carlson (Character Player), Viggo Mortensen (Leading Player) |
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Highly Recommended:
A History of Violence (2005)*^,
Eastern Promises (2007)^ |
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Recommended:
Videodrome
(1983)*, The Fly (1986)*, Dead Ringers (1988)* |
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Worth
a Look: Shivers
(1975), Rabid (1977), The Brood (1979), Scanners
(1981), The Dead Zone (1983), Naked Lunch (1991), M. Butterfly (1993), eXistenZ (1999),
Spider (2002)^ |
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Approach with Caution:
Crimes of the Future (1970), Fast Company (1979) |
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Duds: Crash (1996)* |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
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Links:
[
Amazon
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[
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ]
[
Film Reference ]
[
Spliced
Wire Interview (1999) ] [
David Cronenberg:
The Operating Theatre ] [
Salon
Brilliant Careers ] [
Art
and Culture Profile ] [
Film
Critic Interview (2003) ] [
Film Freak Central Feature ] [
Northern Stars Biography ] [
GreenCine Interview (2006) ]
[
Film
Comment Interview (2007) ] |
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Books:
[
Cronenberg
on Cronenberg ] [
The
Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg ] [
The
Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg ] [
David Cronenberg: Interviews with Serge Grünberg ] [
David Cronenberg: A Delicate Balance
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"Horror for Cronenberg
is not a game or a meal ticket; it is, rather, the natural
expression for one of the best directors working today. For
Cronenberg's subject is the intensity of human frailty and
decay: in short, the boy and its many accelerated mutations,
whether out of disease, anger, dread, or hope. These are not
easy films to take. But how can horror be easy? Anyone born
and reckoning on dying needs to confront Cronenberg."
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David
Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)
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"Horror director whose work
has transcended the genre, achieving mainstream
recognition...Horrific, gruesome, stylistically innovative,
pervaded with anxiety about sexuality and modern life, his
films slowly built a cult following ." -
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MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994) |
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"Cronenberg's work is
seldom very coherent, let alone plausible, in hypothesising
about human evolution, but the best is imbued with a cool,
nightmarish logic, based on the premise that as technology
develops, new diseases, desires, even a new flesh, will
arise...Cerebral, visceral and subversive, his work remains
in the vanguard of modern horror." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999) |
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"I
think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.
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." -
David
Cronenberg |
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