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4 days ago | villagevoice.com | Kalyn Corrigan

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 face appear fuzzy. For director David Cronenberg, death is a muse, and his grief is the driving force behind his latest masterpiece. The Shrouds is a movie that seeks solace through modern technology, and hopes to provide an answer to the timeless question: Can art serve as an act of catharsis?

6 days ago | villagevoice.com | Michael Atkinson

One of world cinema’s most pungent brands, now in his seventh decade of filmmaking, David Cronenberg is beyond caring what we think of him, particularly if we decide, as many still do, to take him as merely a genre dynamo, the mad scientist inventor of “body horror.” (As if it hasn’t been over 40 years since the exploding heads of Scanners, and as if that reductive label by itself doesn’t obscure the man’s unique obsessions and the gnarly ways he’s metaphorized them from film to film.) Why...

1 week ago | villagevoice.com | Jon Stojan |Tim Brinkhof |R.C. Baker |Mary Lyn Maiscott

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1 week ago | villagevoice.com | Kalyn Corrigan |R.C. Baker

Don’t try to outrun your pain: It will come back to haunt you, and it will most likely happen while you’re wearing a shirt adorned with your own face. That’s the moral of The Ballad of Wallis Island, a charming British dramedy in the same vein as Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Juno, and John Carney films like Sing Street and Once. Based on co-writers Tom Basden and Tim Key’s own 2007 short, “The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,” the feature-length version sticks to a modest scale.

1 week ago | villagevoice.com | Michael Atkinson |R.C. Baker |Tim Brinkhof

When Benito Mussolini learned that the Nazis had begun negotiating Italy’s surrender to the Allies, in the spring of 1945, the fascist dictator jumped into his Alfa Romeo and did not look back. Leaving Milan, he caught up with a group of soldiers heading toward neutral Switzerland.