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From director David Cronenberg [The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)] comes the film adaptation of William Burroughs’s 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 Burroughs’s inner journey, .. Read more

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  Roy Scheider 1932 - 2008

  • 12 Feb 2008

  "Film orange?!?" For most of us, Roy Scheider's contribution to mobile cinema culture in the popular Orange commercials a little while back was a reminder of an esteemed actor who had been away too long. The ad made reference to Scheider's two most famous films - The French Connection (his first Oscar nomination) and Jaws. Both were huge box office hits in the early 1970s, though neither quite propelled him into the A-list. He was also in Klute, Marathon Man and All That Jazz (his best... Read more

  

  Cronenberg's exploding-head movie to be remade

  • 28 Feb 2007

  David Cronenberg's 1981 movie Scanners - known by many as the one where a man's head explodes - is to be remade, with the director of Saw II and Saw III heading up the project. The futuristic thriller, which told the story of an underground group of people with psychic powers, is set to start filming early next year, reports Variety. Until then, fans may want to catch up on Cronenberg's back catalogue which often combined psychological and physical horror to produce a number of films that are... Read more

  

  Cronenberg and Mortensen reunite

  • 20 Nov 2006

  Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg are set to work together again this week as filming begins on a new thriller entitled Eastern Promises. The pair recently collaborated on A History of Violence, a dark and tense drama featuring Mortensen as a seemingly happy family man whose violent past threatens to catch up with him. Cronenberg directed the movie, which continued his tradition of gory and graphic visual effects as seen in films such as Naked Lunch, Videodrome and The Fly. Although not... Read more

  

  David Cronenberg’s History of Violence

  • 23 Oct 2007

  "Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." - David Cronenberg David Cronenberg has come a long way since he started work on his first feature, Orgy of the Blood Parasites , 33-years ago. Set in a tower block where residents are infected by a slug-like virus that turns them into sex maniacs, the film was released under various titles - including The Parasite Murders, They Came From Read more

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    From director David Cronenberg [The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)] comes the film adaptation of William Burroughs’s 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 ...

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