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Intricately layered and hypnotically complex, David Cronenberg’s brilliant adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s stage play “The Talking Cure” (in turn based on John Kerr’s book “A Most Dangerous Method”) takes on the deep-rooted neuroses associated with want, lust, and desire as exemplified by the destructive and symbiotic relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortenson), Carl Jung (Michael … Continue reading
David Cronenberg has repeatedly claimed that he does not make Hitchcockian appearances in his own films, which is, of course, a bunch of bullshit. Cronenberg appears in no less than five of his own films and perhaps more, in addition to making a handful of wonderful cameos in the films of others. Here’s my list … Continue reading
Videodrome is dangerous. I’m talking literally and metaphorically. The Videodrome signal, within the confines of the narrative film Videodrome, is a dangerous, flesh mutating, life-changing broadcast. Videodrome the frame, the movie by David Cronenberg, is dangerous in a far more ephemeral way. Videodrome is a hallucination, a series of subjective dreams and nightmares experience by … Continue reading
(Continued from Part I and Part II) Videodrome operates with a menacing tone that threatens to seep into ones own consciousness; it proves that it can. The reds used in the color palette, the soundscape mismatched to strange cuts of surreal material filmed at a crispness that focuses on the actors’ flesh with the weight … Continue reading
(continued from Part I) As for the reality to this fiction, sex plays a big part in the film’s ideology. It seemed to me at first glance simply a misdirect for the bigger plot points. I had assumed that Cronenberg wanted the audience to think the film was about the horrors of snuff films, and … Continue reading
Video Word Made Flesh . . . Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, the 1983 classic film Videodrome by David Cronenberg! This is mostly an essay on modern science as it pertains to the film’s fictitious premise. If you haven’t seen the film you may wonder: What does Video Word Made Flesh mean? … Continue reading
Today David Cronenberg turns 68. All of us at Video Word Made Flesh would like to wish our namesake, a Happy Birthday. In honor of our namesake, here are a few clips from some of his greatest movies. Enjoy! “I have such a direct connection with what my films are, but it is a connection … Continue reading
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