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Cronenbergs make history at Cannes Film Festival -
21 May 2012
-Moviemaker David Cronenberg and his son Brandon have made Cannes Film Festival history by becoming the first father and son to debut films at the event.-The revered filmmaker's Cosmopolis opens In Competition later this week (beg21May12), while his son's Antiviral will b
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Robert Pattinson poses in David Cronenberg homage shoot -
14 May 2012
-Robert Pattinson has paid homage to David Cronenberg by recreating scenes from the filmmaker's early movies for an edgy new photoshoot.-The Twilight star, who worked with the director on new drama Cosmopolis, took part in a 13-hour shoot with photographer Eliot Lee Hazel
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Fiennes and Cronenberg to receive BFI Fellowships -
4 October 2011
-Ralph Fiennes and director David Cronenberg will be presented with British Film Institute (BFI) Fellowships at the annual London Film Festival later this month (Oct11).-The pair follow in the footsteps of Lord Richard Attenborough, Sir Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood and D
David Cronenberg - what members say
review by from West Sussex
Dated but entertaining 8 November 2004
review by Squinty from Lincolnshire
Two bodies. Two minds. One Soul. 10 April 2008
review by from London
Question reality 17 June 2004
David Cronenberg - filmography
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Cosmopolis
(2012)
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Jay Baruchel, Kevin Durand
Director: David Cronenberg
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Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
 
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
(2010)
Starring: David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, Peter Weller
Director: Yony Leyser
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Born the heir of the Burroughs' adding machine estate, William S. Burroughs struggled throughout his life with addiction, control systems and relationships. He was forced to deal with the tragedy of killing his wife and the repercussions of neglecting his son. His novel, "Naked Lunch," was one of ..read more »
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Eastern Promises
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Director: David Cronenberg
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The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna (Naomi Watts), an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally ..read more »
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A History of Violence
(2005)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt
Director: David Cronenberg
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Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action ..read more »
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A History of Violence - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt
Director: David Cronenberg
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Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action ..read more »
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Spider
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Patrick McGrath, Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson
Director: David Cronenberg
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Based on the novel by Patrick McGrath, David Cronenberg's psychological drama follows Dennis "Spider" Cleg (Ralph Fiennes), a mentally disturbed man who has just been released from an asylum. Upon taking up residence in a seedy London apartment building, the already introverted Spider begins to ..read more »
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Existenz
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Kristopher Lemche
Director: David Cronenberg
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Set in the near-future, eXistenZ depicts a society in which game designers are worshipped as superstars and players can organically enter inside the games. At the center of the story is Allegra Geller whose latest games system eXistenZ taps so deeply into its users fears and desires that it blurs ..read more »
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Crash
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Unger
Director: David Cronenberg
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David Cronenberg's controversial drama examines the relationship between sex and danger. Adman James Ballard (James Spader) becomes sexually aroused by car crashes after colliding with fellow driver Dr Helen Remington (Holly Hunter). Through Helen, who shares his arousal, James meets Vaughan (Elias ..read more »
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Naked Lunch
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Judy Davis
Director: David Cronenberg
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From director David Cronenberg [The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)] comes the film adaptation of William Burroughss modern literary masterpiece The Naked Lunch. The book was controversial and ground-breaking and banned for many years for its sensational content. A semi-autobiographical account of ..read more »
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Nightbreed
(1990)
Starring: David Cronenberg, Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby
Director: Clive Barker
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A community of mutant outcasts of varying types and abilities attempts to escape the attentions of a psychotic serial killer and redneck vigilantes with the help of a brooding young man who discovers them.
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Dead Ringers
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi Von Palleske
Director: David Cronenberg
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Director David Cronenberg based this controversial and stylish psychological horror on a bizarre true story...
Jeremy Irons delivers a disturbing performance as twin Gynaecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle. Intrigued by the mysteries of sex and anatomy, the brothers grow from inseparable ..read more »
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The Fly
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
Director: David Cronenberg
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Prepare yourself to witness a fusion of man and insect that has to be experienced to be believed! Dr Seth Brundle plays fast and loose with the laws of nature. Experimenting with "live" matter transmission. The day comes to test the ultimate guinea pig... himself! But that's the day the fly gets ..read more »
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The Fly - Blu-ray
(1986)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
Director: David Cronenberg
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A remake of the 1958 horror about a brilliant scientist who develops a machine that molecularly transports objects in seconds. Inadvertently the machine turns him into a fly, with incredible agility, and super strength. But the metamorphosis also brings insanity as an insatiable appetite ensues.
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The Dead Zone
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt
Director: David Cronenberg
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David Cronenberg's first foray into mainstream filmmaking is also one of his most satisfying pictures. Adapted from a Stephen King novel, the movie stars Christopher Walken as Johnny, a man who has been in a coma for five years and wakes up to find that he can tell a person's fate just by touching ..read more »
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Videodrome - Blu-ray
(1982)
Starring: James Woods, Peter Dvorsky, Deborah Harry
Director: David Cronenberg
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Hardcore pornography, sadomasochism, mind control, and living televisions all play crucial roles in Videodrome, one of director David Cronenberg's explorations of dangerous sexuality and technological obsession. The morally questionable hero of the tale is one Max Renn (James Woods), a television ..read more »
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Videodrome
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: James Woods, Peter Dvorsky, Deborah Harry
Director: David Cronenberg
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Hardcore pornography, sadomasochism, mind control, and living televisions all play crucial roles in Videodrome, one of director David Cronenberg's explorations of dangerous sexuality and technological obsession. The morally questionable hero of the tale is one Max Renn (James Woods), a television ..read more »
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Scanners
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack
Director: David Cronenberg
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The title of this David Cronenberg sci-fi horror film refers to a group of people who have telekinetic powers that allow them to read minds and give them the ability to make other people's heads explode. The children of a group of women who took an experimental tranquillizer during their ..read more »
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The Brood
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle
Director: David Cronenberg
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After the painful breakup of her marriage, Nola Carveth seeks treatment at an experimental psychiatric clinic known as the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmatics. While there, under the care of Dr. Raglan, the institute's founder, she is encouraged to work through her subconscious feelings of hurt ..read more »
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Fast Company
(1979)
Starring: William Smith, Claudi Jennings, John Saxon
Director: David Cronenberg
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Though known for his thinking-person's horror flicks, director David Cronenberg provides a realistic, compelling portrait of the race car circuit in FAST COMPANY. Lonnie "Lucky Man" Johnson (William Smith) knows that his sponsor, Fast Company Motor Oil, wants to let him go in favor of a younger, ..read more »
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Rabid
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Marilyn Chambers, J. Roger Periard, Joe Silver
Director: David Cronenberg
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For his second commercial feature, following a pair of experimental films and 1977's Shivers, Canadian horror auteur David Cronenberg continued to mine the themes of disease and mutation that were already becoming his perennial concerns. Marilyn Chambers stars as Rose, an attractive young woman who ..read more »
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Shivers
(1975)
Starring: Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry, Alan Magicovsky
Director: David Cronenberg
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A gripping exercise in body horror and social paranoia, prolific Canadian director David Cronenberg's debut feature offers a startling look at modern isolationist society with a parasitic twist. When a scientist experimenting with a new form of organ transplants kills a young female resident of a ..read more »
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Stereo And Crimes Of The Future
(1969)
Starring: Ronald Mlodzik
Director: David Cronenberg
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Two features from David Cronenberg. In 'Stereo (1969) The Future' the Canadian Academy for Erotic Enquiry subjects seven young adults to a kind of brain surgery to test the theories of the parapsychologist Luther Stringfellow. Also includes 'Crimes Of The Future (1970)'.
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David Cronenberg facts
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...Like so many of David Cronenberg's classic horror title (Videodrome, Rabid, etc) Scanners has not dated well. It very much looks of its time with effects largely unimpressive t...
