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David Cronenberg
Director / Screenwriter / Producer
1943 -
Born March 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Key Production Countries: Canada, USA, UK
Key Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi Horror, Psychological Drama, Erotic Drama
Key Collaborators: Ronald Sanders (Editor), Howard Shore (Composer), Carol Spier (Production Designer), Peter Suschitzky (Cinematographer), Mark Irwin (Cinematographer), Robert A. Silverman (Character Player), Claude Heroux (Producer), Les Carlson (Character Player), Viggo Mortensen (Leading Player), Jeremy Irons (Leading Player)
Highly Recommended: A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007)
Recommended: Videodrome (1983), The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)
Worth a Look: Shivers (1975), Scanners (1981), The Dead Zone (1983), Naked Lunch (1991), M. Butterfly (1993), eXistenZ (1999), Spider (2002)
Links: [ 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) ]
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  ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: Videodrome (1983), The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988), Crash (1996)
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: Spider (2002), A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007)
 
A History of Violence (2005)Videodrome (1983)The Fly (1986)Dead Ringers (1988)
 
     
  "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." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)  
     
  "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 ." - (The MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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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