David Cronenberg

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Stephen Bjork |David Cronenberg

1979 saw the release of a landmark film that provided a bitter and sometimes quite personal examination of the realities of modern marriage and divorce, with much of the story centering around the custody dispute over a young child. It delved deeply into the emotional stakes involved, including the negative impacts of uncontrolled anger, and that struck a nerve with popular audiences.

1 month ago | reelfilm.com | David Nusair |David Cronenberg

Directed by David Cronenberg, Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) details the oddball exploits of several young volunteers as they agree to participate in a parapsychological experiment.

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Beth Accomando |David Cronenberg

I love that both Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds are described (and accurately so) as their most personal films, while both also work as exquisite genre films. Coogler’s film is about family, his Southern roots and Black culture while Cronenberg’s is about the death of his wife. This just goes to prove their talents. The Shrouds opens with a nightmare that morphs into the mouth of a patient with a dentist telling him that grief is rotting his teeth.

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Jarrod Jones |David Cronenberg

★★★ instances of mournful grace interspersed with some of the most goofball bloviations I've heard from Cronenberg yet; a labyrinth of grief and paranoia navigated by the starship Tesla; the director's fascination with the disintegrating body and finding a way to get horny about it — the hallmarks of his work are present, stitched together by the slightest threads, which forms a loose patchwork that allows much of this to fray out into full-on absurdism (your mileage may vary about whether...

2 months ago | editorial.rottentomatoes.com | David Cronenberg |Miranda Richardson |Gabriel Byrne |Bradley Hall

The latest: Cronenberg is back with his 23rd film, The Shrouds!Over the course of six decades, David Cronenberg has built a bloody, slimed-over, and warped throne of flesh and bone to sit upon as the king of body horror. His first two films, Stereo and Crimes of the Future, are little-seen, ready for Cronenberg fans to re-discover and find that his obsession with pushing the boundaries of science, sexual perversity, and our oh-so-tenuous grasp on our physical self was present from the beginning.