David Cronenberg
Also Known As: David Paul Cronenberg, Дэвид Кроненберг, 데이비드 크로넌버그, 데이빗 크로넌버그, Дэ́вид Пол Кро́ненберг, Дэ́вид Кро́ненберг, "Baron of Blood", "the King of Venereal Horror" , 大卫·柯南伯格, دیوید کراننبرگ
Biography: David Paul Cronenberg CC OOnt (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and the intertwining of the psychological, physical, and technological. Cronenberg is best known for exploring these themes through sci-fi horror films such as Shivers (1975), Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983) and The Fly (1986). However, he has also directed dramas, psychological thrillers and gangster films. Cronenberg's films have polarized critics and audiences; he has earned critical acclaim and sparked controversy for his depictions of gore and violence. The Village Voice called him "the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world". His films have won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Prize for Crash at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, a unique award that is distinct from the Jury Prize as it is not given annually but only at the request of the official jury, who in this case gave the award "for originality, for daring, and for audacity". From the 2000s to the 2020s, Cronenberg collaborated on several films with Viggo Mortensen, including A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), A Dangerous Method (2011) and Crimes of the Future (2022). Seven of his films were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or, the most recent being The Shrouds (2024), which was screened at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Cronenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Birthday: March 15, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
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To Die For
Overview: Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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The Death of David Cronenberg
Overview: David Cronenberg stands in a softly lit bedroom and looks deeply into the camera before his gaze shifts to a motionless figure in the bed...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-14
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Resurrection
Overview: A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along with perversely ironic biblical quotes.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-05
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Nightbreed
Overview: A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-16
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Into the Night
Overview: Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-22
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Jason X
Overview: In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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The Fly
Overview: When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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Last Night
Overview: Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Overview: A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Overview: A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-09
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Blood & Donuts
Overview: In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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Tomorrow's Shadows
Overview: Where futures are known and happiness is guaranteed by G.O.D., a mother is given a choice - her child or her perfect future.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-29
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The Judge
Overview: When a key witness in a case of corruption is killed in courts all suspicion falls on Judge Armando Acosta. Now the judge Madiani will defend his innocence.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-06
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The Grace of God
Overview: Centering on L'Ecuyer's identity as a gay man, the film unfolds as a series of vignettes depicting various key moments in his life.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-10
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Shivers
Overview: When the residents of a luxury apartment complex outside Montreal are infiltrated by parasites and transformed into violent, sex-crazed maniacs, it's up to Dr. Roger St. Luc to contain the outbreak from spreading to the city.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-16
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Crash
Overview: After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins to use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-17
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Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
Overview: Through the use of interviews (both vintage and new) with various cast and crew members, including Rick Baker, Bill Sturgeon, David Cronenberg, James Woods among others, as well as behind-the-scenes footage, this tells the story of how the special effects in the film were created.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-27
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Tales from the Organ Trade
Overview: A look into the underground world of trafficking human body parts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-20
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Henry & Verlin
Overview: Verlin is 9 years old and does not talk, nor does he even seem to hear. Henry, a child-like adult, befriends Verlin and pulls him from his shell. Verlin's mother mistrusts Henry, who she feels is dangerous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-07
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Room 999
Overview: In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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Rewind
Overview: Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-26
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Naked Making Lunch
Overview: A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-29
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The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter
Overview: Tells the story of David Secter, Canada's first acclaimed indie filmmaker.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-03
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Citizens of Cosmopolis
Overview: An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-25
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Falling
Overview: John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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The American Nightmare
Overview: An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-11
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David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme
Overview: A brief documentary about Cronenberg made by the BBC to precede a showing of 'Videodrome' on television.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-19
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Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
Overview: Documentary about the career of director David Cronenberg, with clips from his films and interviews with friends, colleagues, film critics and Cronenberg himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Humane
Overview: In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-26
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David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh
Overview: “I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh” is an insightful and candid interview with the man himself about his films and his motivations. Cronenberg is cheerfully frank about his often grotesque images and controversial subject matter, and clearly relishes in the opportunity to explore the themes and motifs behind each one.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-20
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Blue
Overview: New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-10
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Take One: Fear on Film
Overview: Mick Garris hosts this look at horror films with John Carpenter, John Landis and David Cronenberg all discussing their favorite scare films as well as what they think makes them work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Extreme Measures
Overview: Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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Videodrome
Overview: As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-04
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The Stupids
Overview: An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-08
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Ape Sodom
Overview: Three degenerates navigate the descending hierarchy of post-consumerist enlightenment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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The Nest
Overview: A doctor must remove a parasite infestation from within a patient's breast.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-02
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Boozecan
Overview: The owner of an after-hours bar dreams of opening a legitimate establishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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Too Commercial for Cannes
Overview: A day in a life tour diary with David Cronenberg, as he brings his film "A History of Violence" to the Cannes Film Festival (2005) for its first public screening.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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A Special Day
Overview: At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Overview: This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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To Each His Own Cinema
Overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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Dead Ringers
Overview: Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Palace of Pleasure
Overview: John Hofsess’s The Palace of Pleasure emerged from the psychedelic haze of 1960s postmodern art. It was a blistering work that combined arresting abstract imagery with the wounded expressions of a young couple, edited into a collage of mass culture imagery and album and book jackets, all of it framed as a therapeutic treatment. Addressed to a generation coming up in an era of protest and social change, where many found themselves increasingly burdened with hopelessness, paranoia, and neurosis, The Palace of Pleasure was offered as a cleansing ritual, a post-Freudian expelling of dammed-up energies that anticipated The Primal Scream. In this video, Stephen Broomer discusses Hofsess’s therapeutic ambitions, how the film was composed of Hofsess’s earlier films, and the sensual spell of the work, the way in which it commands us to enter into a universal fellowship of touch that circulates, from us to us, through us, to strain the boundaries between the self and the other.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Buffalo Airport Visions
Overview: An experimental investigation of Toronto street life and youth culture.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Making of Dead Ringers
Overview: A short behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of "Dead Ringers," including interviews with writer-director David Cronenberg, star Jeremy Irons, co-producer Marc Boyman, and optical effect supervisor Lee Wilson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Masters of Horror
Overview: Documentary showcasing the work of prominent film directors in the horror genre. Featuring interviews with the directors, behind the scenes footage and clips from popular horror films, and hosted by Bruce Campbell, star of The Evil Dead (1981).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-06
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The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
Overview: A featurette made in 1982 to promote the new film by David Cronenberg, including interviews with the cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Disappearance at Clifton Hill
Overview: Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-28
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L’ inquiétante absence
Overview: "L'inquiétante absence" is a documentary that examines the current state of genre films in Québec. In an attempt to answer their questions, the filmmakers conducted several interviews with leading figures of Québec's genre cinema from various backgrounds, in addition to meeting with fans at festivals and conventions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-14
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Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier
Overview: The invisible art of production designer Carol Spier. The relationship between director and production designer is a special one. FRAME BY FRAME is a documentary that goes behind the scenes of David Cronenberg's sci-fi film, eXistenZ, for a rare and fascinating look at the art of production designer, Carol Spier.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-08
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Barney's Version
Overview: The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-26
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On Screen!: Shivers
Overview: The debut feature from Canada's most celebrated filmmaker, David Cronenberg, Shivers provided the young director with a crash course in feature filmmaking and established many of the unsettling themes explored in his later work. In the film, medical professor Dr. Hobbes (Fred Doederlein) creates a genetically-engineered organism he plans to use to bring about a more sensually aware society, but his experiments turn deadly when the aphrodisiac-producing parasite gets out of control and spreads throughout a swinging Montreal apartment complex. Despite the film's success on both sides of the border, the critical backlash against the film was used to launch a cultural attack on Canada's film funding.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-10
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Trial by Jury
Overview: Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-09
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Acts of Violence
Overview: ACTS OF VIOLENCE is a behind the scenes documentary, structured in a scene by scene breakdown of all the incidents of violence in David Cronenberg's film, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. Directed by Cronenberg's wife, Carolyn Zeifman, who has been married to her subject for more than 26 years, it provides a new insight on the filmmaker -- reputed over the years to be the king of cinematic depravity because of his exploration of graphically violent and sexual themes. The documentary chronicles the easy-going, familial mood that the long time, loyal crew have long attested pervades a Cronenberg set, as well as the many unique challenges of the production and explores the film's many themes of violence, especially in America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-14
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Moonshine Highway
Overview: The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry when the local sheriff is determined to kill the driver over an affair with his wife.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-05
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Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece
Overview: New featurette, writer/director Brad Bird, writer/director Andrew Haigh, director Danny Boyle, and cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond, amongst others, discuss the Nic Roeg's diverse body of work and his visual style as well as Don't Look Now.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-29
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A Kaleidoscope of Meaning: Colour in Don't Look Now
Overview: New featurette, David Cronenberg, cinematographer Anthony B. Richomond, and professor Sarah Street (University of Bristol), amongst others, discuss the use of color in Don't Look Now as well as the manner in which it affects the film's tone and atmosphere
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-29
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Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
Overview: When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman creator of The Toxic Avenger and founder of the longest-running independent film studio, Troma Entertainment. Over the years he has discovered talents such as Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park, The Book of Mormon) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) to name a few. Candid interviews, tips, tricks and tidbits scattered throughout the DVD give filmmakers practical tools for getting a movie shoot off the ground, keeping it afloat and seeing it through to the end - Lloyd Kaufman shows you how it's really done.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-13
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The Politics of the Dead Zone
Overview: A discussion on the politics behind the 1983 David Cronenberg thriller, The Dead Zone.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-26
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Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard
Overview: A film essay on Ballard's fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg's (yet to be filmed) Crash, featuring an interview with the director, prior to making of his film.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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David Cronenberg: The Early Years
Overview: Director David Cronenberg discusses his transition from the experimental filmmaking of 'Stero' and 'Crimes of the Future' to working within the commercial Canadian film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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By Any Means Necessary: The Making of "Jason X"
Overview: Produced for the "Jason X" Special Edition DVD.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-01
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David Cronenberg, en chair et en os
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Original Language: fr
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At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World
Overview: In an unspecified future, a man prepares to kill himself in a cinema toilet. Two unseen radio commentators say he is the last Jew in the world, and that this is the last cinema, slated for destruction. They are not sorry to see it go.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-20
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Ready or Not: Here I Come
Overview: The sequel to the 2019 film. Plot TBA.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
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100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Overview: Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and authors/critics.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-29
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The Shrouds
Overview: Inconsolable since the death of his wife, Karsh, a prominent businessman, invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated, and he sets out to track down the perpetrators.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-03
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