The Directors - David Cronenberg

Product Description Although he began his career making quirky low-budget features, writer-director David Cronenberg quickly grew from cult status to mainstream acclaim in the 1980s. A controversial and unique filmmaker, he has firmly established his reputation as a well-respected auteur. Crononberg's films have won him awards and recognition around the world -- his offbeat masterpieces include Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash and eXistenZ. Actors that discuss their experiences working with Cronenberg include Marilyn Chambers, Willem Dafoe, Deborah Harry, Holly Hunter, Michael Ironside and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Amazon.com Anyone who has closely followed the career of David Cronenberg will be pleased to know that this one-hour program is one of the best in the entire Directors series. Articulate and highly thoughtful about his work and its dominant themes, Cronenberg is an engaging intellectual throughout an extensive interview, explaining how he'd been inspired by the New York underground scene of the 1950s (perhaps destined to be "an obscure novelist," he says) when an independent Canadian film titled Winter Kept Us Warm prompted him to pursue filmmaking. "The body is the first fact of human existence," the director observes, in reference to the fascination with flesh, mutation, and other bodily matters that recur throughout his films. Shivers and Scanners are given their due, including enjoyable interview clips with ex-porn star Marilyn Chambers and Michael Ironside (the latter providing a revealing anecdote about Cronenberg describing a bizarre dream). Cronenberg blames Paramount for botching the release of The Dead Zone, and discussion of Crash allows him to reveal his disdainful "strange relationship" with film critics, while Holly Hunter observes that Crash is an exercise in "exploring the moral code." Like Cronenberg's films, these interviews and film clips are filled with challenging perspectives and passionate defense of the artist's prerogative, and the result is a welcomed and illuminating examination of a truly original director. --Jeff Shannon
ASIN: B00004TJRB
VSKU: DBV.B00004TJRB.N
Condition: New
Author/Artist:Willem Dafoe|Marilyn Chambers|Holly Hunter|Jennifer Jason Leigh|Deborah Harry
Binding: Dvd
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