Death is impossible. It’s a door that you keep waiting to swing open, announcing the entrance of a dinner date who never arrives, or the recurring dream of a person whose prolonged absence makes their ...
Before the pandemic, David Cronenberg pitched a series to Netflix. The director of movies like “Videodrome,” “The Fly” and “eXistenZ” – stories that investigated the dangerous frontier of cutting-edge ...
David Cronenberg never planned to become an adjective. But now that he is one, he’s happy to claim it. “Ever since ‘Bergmanesque’ and ‘Felliniesque,’ I think one has to aspire to becoming an adjective ...
David Cronenberg has been firing up and freaking out audiences for well over 50 years. But as writer Violet Lucca attests in “David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials,” the Canadian filmmaker widely regarded ...
Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. When you think body horror, you think David Cronenberg.
Two works—a new film, The Shrouds, and a career-spanning monograph by the film critic Violet Lucca—present a more sanguine image of the master of body horror. In 1975, David Cronenberg’s debut feature ...
Despite an uproar over the use of AI to adjust his voice in post-production, Adrien Brody still managed to win Best Actor at the 97th Academy Awards. “I must confess, there was a scandal [with] ‘The ...
There are only a handful of filmmakers who can be considered true masters of a genre, and David Cronenberg is certainly a master of horror. Not the traditional jumpscare horror, but his own brand of ...