David Cronenberg
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Cronenberg’s films have become almost a genre in themselves, using methods taken from horror and science-fiction to explore themes such as fear of bodily transformation and infection.
We’re also thrilled to have been given permission by Cronenberg himself to screen his first 2 feature films, too, so don’t miss this!!
Films in the David Cronenberg:
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Film: The Brood (Dir. David Cronenberg) (1979)
15 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Oliver Reed (!!) stars as an unconventional therapist who encourages Samantha Eggar to undergo “psychoplasmic” therapy – whereby mental and emotional trauma takes physical form – and produces scores of deformed, murderous children who prey upon her young (human) daughter. Made after a difficult custody battle between Cronenberg and his former wife, The Brood is perhaps the director’s most cathartic and autobiographical film.
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Film: Existenz (1999)
19 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Cronenberg returns to original-screenplay work with the crafty virtual-reality adventure eXistenZ (1999), which glistened with spinal bioports and sticky-icky “game pods”. Released around the same time as The Matrix, the movie appeared as the smarter, scrappier arthouse cousin to the self-important blockbuster.
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Film: Scanners (1981)
24 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Very Cult Sci-Fi horror…
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Film: Dead Ringers (1988)
26 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
What could be better than Jeremy Irons?
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Film: Stereo (1969)
29 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
We’ll be ending the season with the master’s first two feature films.
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Film: Crimes Of The Future (1970)
29 Jul 2009, 7:30 p.m.
We’ll be ending the season with the master’s first two feature films.