Tag: David Cronenberg
The Shrouds | Review
Death Be Not Shroud: Cronenberg Hits Dead Ends in Sluggish Mystery
The burial business serves as the battle ground for a complicated conundrum in David...
2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Fest: Neo Sora, Murat Fıratoğlu, Damian Kocur & Mo Harawe in Comp
The Marrakech International Film Festival have announced its complete line-up and in the official competition (first and second feature films) film titles we find...
2024 NYFF: Corbet, Tsangari, Baker, Lesage, Guiraudie Plus Surprise Devor & Loktev Titles in Main Slate
We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d'Or winner Anora) items with a...
2024 TIFF: 10 Key Take-Aways From Gala & Special Presentations Announcement
The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its Gala and Special Presentations programs and now have have confirmations not only...
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
In his late career resurgence with Crimes of the Future having been showcased in the comp in 2022, David Cronenberg makes his entrance with...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia, Lanthimos, Baker, Gomes & Agathe Riedinger’s Debut Vie for Palme d’Or
With today's announcement of nineteen competition titles aiming in contention of the Palme d'Or (note that we might add another pair or trio next...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Possible Palme d’Or Competition Films
Usually in the twenty to twenty-two film range, the competition for the Palme d'Or has been a tad more inclusive in recent years in...
2023 NYFF: Trân Anh Hùng, Garth Davis, Hayao Miyazaki, Harmony Korine & Steve McQueen in Spotlight Section
Last year's Spotlight Section managed to nab pair of highly sought-after titles in Bones and All and Women Talking and a pair of world...
2023 Eurimages: Cronenberg, Serebrennikov, Nordahl & Agnieszka Holland Land Coin
The Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2023 have just been announced and among the 32 supported films we have some veteran filmmakers in David...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Competition
Armageddon Time - James Gray
Boy from Heaven - Tarik Saleh
Broker - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Frère et sœur - Arnaud Desplechin
Close - Lukas...
Crimes of the Future | Review
Origin of the Neo-Species: Cronenberg Crafts a Discourse on Human Evolution
Whatever the evolution happening in the world of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future,...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7- David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
This year's Canadian entry has a touch of Greece in it as David Cronenberg shot his latest film with a whiff of the Aegean...
2022 Cannes: Abbasi, Dhont, Reichardt, Mungiu & Claire Denis Among 18 Titles Vying for Palme d’Or
The likes of first-time comp contenders Kelly Reichardt, Ali Abbasi and Lucas Dhont are joining former Palme d'Or winners Ruben Östlund, Kore-eda Hirokazu, the...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #15. David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
Crimes of the Future
Produced by Robert Lantos
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by David Cronenberg
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Don...
The Conversation: Producer Michel Merkt
Swiss producer Michel Merkt, who runs his own company KNM alongside his wife and often produces noted international projects with Said Ben Said of...
Rabid / Dead Ringers | Blu-ray Review
Shout Factory rejuvenates two titles from David Cronenberg’s prolific vault, his 1977 horror film Rabid, which featured adult film star Marilyn Chambers in her...
The Conversation: Producer Saïd Ben Saïd
For the past sixteen years, Franco-Tunisian producer Saïd Ben Saïd has been steadfastly supporting the works of many a European maverick auteur. Beginning in...
The Conversation: Producer Paulo Branco
One of the most prolific, contemporary European art-house producers has to be Paulo Branco, who has been fostering considerable auteur driven fare since 1975,...
Maps to the Stars | Review
What’s the Matter with Havana?: Cronenberg’s L.A. Story a Hot Mess of Tangled Ideas
Couched within its episodic instances of harpooning Hollywood stereotypes, there is...
Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut | Blu-ray Review
Back in 1990, just prior to its release, 20th Century Fox recut Nightbreed drastically, attempting to shift its somewhat progressive, fantastical subtext into the...
2014 NYFF: Chazelle, Broomfield, Bonello, Ferrara, Sang-soo, Hansen-Løve Make Cut
While Sundance (Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip) and Berlin (Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters, Yann Demange's ’71, Alain Resnais' Life...
Latest From Ozon, Bahrani, Baumbach, Gordon Green, Petzold & Hansen-Løve Heading to TIFF…Telluride & Venice
Much like back to school sales in mid July, in our books, TIFF's first announcement wave reminds us that the end of summer is...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Miller’s Foxcatcher is Gold Medal Greek Tragedy & Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars Charts Familiar/Familial Grounds
Cannes Monday 19th -
Despite its rather grim subject matter and ultimate denounement, the reception was warm and positive for this morning's 8:30 a.m. Grand...
Cannes 2014 Derby: David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars Tops Blake’s Palme d’Or Predictions
So let’s get one thing straight: the stylistic tendencies of the jury president’s own work doesn’t make much of an impact in the grand...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #12. David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars
Maps to the Stars
Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: Bruce Wagner
Producers: Said Ben Said, Martin Katz, Michel Merkt
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Julianne Moore,...
Body Language: Alfama Films Set to Produce Luca Guadagnino’s Body Art
It seems David Cronenberg hasn’t had enough of Don DeLillo, with Variety reporting that the director is set to go in front of the...
Lynne Ramsay, Andrzej Zulawski & Yorgos Lanthimos: Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2014
11. Zama – Dir. Lucretia Martel
Why This Makes Top 10: At number eleven we have Argentinean filmmaker Lucretia Martel’s latest film, her first since...
Cosmopolis | Review
Consuming Dystopia: Cronenberg’s Latest a Morose Microcosm of Greedy Consumption
David Cronenberg returns to a familiar formula, that of creating a uniquely original film from...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
His fourth feature film at Cannes since Crash was awarded the Special Jury Prize (1996), the novel to screen adaptation of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis...
