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Four directors take wildly different looks at mortality

LA Times

Auteurs may be known for the distinctive personal themes their films often address. Of course, Azazel Jacobs’ “His Three Daughters,” Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada,” David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds” and Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” offer wildly different looks at mortality, with their creators’ signatures all over them. “It’s the biggest story of all of our lives,” says Jacobs, whose …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

David Cronenberg is much more than a master of body horror, author argues

LA Times

On the Shelf 'David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials' By Violet Lucca Abrams Books: 288 pages, $50 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “There’s this tremendous loneliness that I find really affecting.” One film that Lucca cites as an example of this strange melancholy: Cronenberg’s 1996 adaptation …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Exotic dancer drama 'Anora' wins Cannes Film Festival's top prize

Hindustan Times

* Exotic dancer drama 'Anora' wins Cannes Film Festival's top prize George Lucas receives honorary award * India's 'All We Imagine As Light' wins Grand Prix * 'Emilia Perez' nabs best actresses, jury prize By Miranda Murray CANNES, France, - "Anora," a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch's son, …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Exotic dancer drama 'Anora' wins Cannes Film Festival's top prize

Hindustan Times

By Miranda Murray Exotic dancer drama 'Anora' wins Cannes Film Festival's top prize CANNES, France -"Anora," a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch's son, won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, on Saturday. "Anora" continues a streak of sex worker-focused films by Baker, including the 2021 …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Anora, US film on exotic dancer, wins Cannes’ top award Palme d’Or

Al Jazeera

The second prize went to All We Imagine as Light, the first Indian entry to the festival in 30 years. Anora, a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch’s son, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or. Jury members including US actor Lily Gladstone and Japanese …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

In hypnotically trashy Trump biopic and other showstoppers, Cannes goes under the knife

LA Times

No monster shambles into being fully formed. Shrewdly, “The Apprentice,” a hypnotically trashy biopic detailing Donald Trump’s rise to prominence in the ratty, Koch-era New York of the 1970s and ’80s, requires no sympathy for the future president. Dark, chomping movies consumed patio discussions and online chatter as ceremonial cows like Kevin Costner’s fuzzy three-hour western, the first part of …

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1 year, 6 months ago

‘Dead Ringers’ limited series shares the film’s DNA, but it’s no twin

LA Times

“Dead Ringers” showrunner Alice Birch, with input from actor Rachel Weisz, created an entirely reconsidered update of the David Cronenberg film of the same name. The Prime Video miniseries “Dead Ringers” revisits the strange story told in David Cronenberg’s 1988 feature starring Jeremy Irons in the lead roles of Beverly and Elliot Mantle. “It was Rachel’s idea,” says award-winning playwright …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Review: Brandon Cronenberg’s weird and wonderful ‘Infinity Pool’ is a unique ride

LA Times

Infinity pools are built as optical illusions where water seemingly has no boundary, slipping into nothingness, bleeding into the horizon. There could be no better title for Brandon Cronenberg’s latest identity crisis-as-body horror film, “Infinity Pool,” which arrives on the heels of 2020’s “Possessor.” Set at a high-end all-inclusive resort in the fictional country of Li Tolqa, “Infinity Pool” is …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Crimes of the Future film review: S&M kitsch and an arch Kristen Stewart result in mid-level Cronenberg

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. This is one of the typically disconcerting early scenes in Canadian …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Crimes of the Future: Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart toy with pleasure and pain in David Cronenberg body horror

ABC

William Shakespeare looked upon the world and saw a stage; David Cronenberg sees an operating theatre. The Canadian auteur's latest film marks a moodily captivating and surprisingly funny return – after more than two decades exploring some of his less gruesome interests – to something like body horror, the subgenre in which he made his distinctive mark, as both pioneer …

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2 years, 5 months ago

‘Heat'-ing up: Michael Mann writes sequel-prequel ‘Heat 2'

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself. He does hope to make another “Heat” movie, but he has chosen to introduce his new narrative through words only, the novel “Heat 2.” Written with the award-winning crime novelist Meg Gardiner …

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2 years, 5 months ago

'Heat'-ing up: Michael Mann writes sequel-prequel 'Heat 2'

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2 years, 7 months ago

David Cronenberg on the evolution to ‘Crimes of the Future’

LA Times

A remarkable number of the films by David Cronenberg could easily be called “Crimes of the Future.” In fact, he already used the title once before, on a short feature in 1970. Playing now in theaters, the new “Crimes of the Future” is Cronenberg’s first feature film in eight years, since 2014’s “Maps to the Stars.” That same year he …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Review: The pain and beauty of ‘Crimes of the Future’

Associated Press

Pain is a essentially a thing of the past for some in David Cronenberg’s “ Crimes of the Future,” a dense, gorgeous and grotesque meditation on bodies, creation and art. Cronenberg, whose name is forever destined and doomed to be mentioned any time any filmmaker attempts to put their spin on “body horror,” went viral for a comment in which …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Q&A: Cronenberg on bodies, death and the future of movies

Associated Press

CANNES, France — David Cronenberg is sitting on a balcony when a squawking seagull flies overhead. Cronenberg, who sat for a recent interview at the Cannes Film Festival where “Crimes of the Future” was premiering, first wrote the film’s script in 1998. Mortensen, who’s starred in Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence,” “Eastern Promises” and “A Dangerous Method,” calls “Crimes of …

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2 years, 7 months ago

David Cronenberg says he ‘harassed’ Viggo Mortensen into starring in Crimes of the Future

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy David Cronenberg has said that he had …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Q&A: Kristen Stewart on body horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

Associated Press

CANNES, France — In David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee. Art actually saves lives.’” In an interview, Stewart reflected on how the themes of “Crimes of the Future” encapsulate and …

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2 years, 7 months ago

David Cronenberg imagines future of sex at Cannes

Live Mint

Sci-fi shockmeister David Cronenberg grossed out the Cannes Film Festival Monday with an ultra-creepy take on the future of sex starring Kristen Stewart, Lea Seydoux and long-time collaborator Viggo Mortensen. "Body is reality—that's always been my mantra in one way or another," he told a small group of reporters ahead of the film's red-carpet premiere. His partner Caprice has developed …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Crimes of the Future review: Surgery is sex in a body horror

BBC

Crimes of the Future review: Surgery is sex in a body horror Nikos Nikolopoulos With Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg 'returns pleasingly to the obsessions of his earlier films, without reaching the heights of many of them', writes Nicholas Barber. It has traces of Terry Gilliam's analogue, retro-futuristic satire, and some bony biotechnology borrowed from Alien, but Crimes of …

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2 years, 8 months ago

75th Cannes to feature Cronenberg, Chan-wook and ‘Elvis’

Associated Press

PARIS — Films by David Cronenberg, Park Chan-wook and Kelly Reichardt will vie for the coveted Palme d’Or at a Cannes Film Festival set to unspool against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. Cannes film festival artist director Thierry Frémaux and president Pierre Lescure announced the lineup to this year’s festival, Cannes’ 75th, in a press conference Thursday in …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Why twisted erotic thriller Crash still stuns, 25 years on

BBC

Why twisted erotic thriller Crash still stuns, 25 years on Alamy David Cronenberg caused hysteria with his take on J G Ballard's novel about car crash fetishists. These words accompanied a fiery full-page diatribe penned by the Standard's film critic, Alexander Walker, deploring David Cronenberg's latest film Crash – an adaptation of the JG Ballard novel about a group of …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Censor, Thatcher, and the moral panic over video nasties

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s the 1980s, a moral panic about “video nasties” is gripping …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Sonic the Hedgehog at 30: How Sega conquered the video games industry – and then threw it all away

The Independent

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4 years, 1 month ago

Falling review: Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut is as inscrutable as the man behind the lens

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Cert 15, 112 mins It’s no surprise that Falling, Viggo Mortensen’s …

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Four directors take wildly different looks at mortality

David Cronenberg is much more than a master of body horror, author argues

Exotic dancer drama 'Anora' wins Cannes Film Festival's top prize

Exotic dancer drama 'Anora' wins Cannes Film Festival's top prize

Anora, US film on exotic dancer, wins Cannes’ top award Palme d’Or

In hypnotically trashy Trump biopic and other showstoppers, Cannes goes under the knife

‘Dead Ringers’ limited series shares the film’s DNA, but it’s no twin

Review: Brandon Cronenberg’s weird and wonderful ‘Infinity Pool’ is a unique ride

Crimes of the Future film review: S&M kitsch and an arch Kristen Stewart result in mid-level Cronenberg

Crimes of the Future: Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart toy with pleasure and pain in David Cronenberg body horror

‘Heat'-ing up: Michael Mann writes sequel-prequel ‘Heat 2'

'Heat'-ing up: Michael Mann writes sequel-prequel 'Heat 2'

David Cronenberg on the evolution to ‘Crimes of the Future’

Review: The pain and beauty of ‘Crimes of the Future’

Q&A: Cronenberg on bodies, death and the future of movies

David Cronenberg says he ‘harassed’ Viggo Mortensen into starring in Crimes of the Future

Q&A: Kristen Stewart on body horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

David Cronenberg imagines future of sex at Cannes

Crimes of the Future review: Surgery is sex in a body horror

75th Cannes to feature Cronenberg, Chan-wook and ‘Elvis’

Why twisted erotic thriller Crash still stuns, 25 years on

Censor, Thatcher, and the moral panic over video nasties

Sonic the Hedgehog at 30: How Sega conquered the video games industry – and then threw it all away

Falling review: Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut is as inscrutable as the man behind the lens