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Sometimes nicknamed "the King of Venereal Horror," David Cronenberg is a Canadian film director known for exploring themes of bodily mutation and psychological transformation in his movies.
His latest film is EASTERN PROMISES and it won the top award at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.
EASTERN PROMISES
opens Sept 14, with wide release Sept 21
Starring Viggo Mortenson and Naomi Watts, this film focuses on a nurse who is drawn into the world of Russian mobsters when she investigates the life of a 14 year old girl who dies while giving birth to a baby. Mortensen is a gangster and driver for a Russian crime syndicate operating behind the facade of a London restaurant.
- Eastern Promises trailer
- Watch Eastern Promises trailers and video clips
- First review of Eastern Promises
- Fabfunk's Seen David Cronenberg's EASTERN PROMISES! - from AICN
- Eastern Promises (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Eastern Promises is a 2007 drama and thriller feature film to be directed by David Cronenberg. The screenplay is by Steven Knight, whose previous credits include Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things.
- Production Begins on David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises
- Eastern Promises, the new thriller from director David Cronenberg, begins production in London next week. The film is written by Steven Knight (Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things). The Kudos Pictures and Serendipity Point Films co-production will be distributed domestically and internationally by Focus Features; Canadian distribution will be handled by Alliance Atlantis* Motion Picture Distribution LP.
- Cronenberg to Make Some "Eastern Promises"
- Scott Weinberg writes: "True, he just signed on last week to direct a flick called "Maps to the Stars," but there's certainly nothing wrong with lining up the next gig while that awards buzz is still flowing. "A History of Violence" director David Cronenberg is expected to sign on for "Eastern Promises," a British thriller from the guy who wrote "Dirty Pretty Things."
Inner Lives Turned Inside Out
All of these Cronenberg movies feature characters whose seemingly-ordinary lives take a turn for the unusual. His fondness for bodily revolt is more mental and emotional in these stories.
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About David Cronenberg
- Cronenberg, David
- Cronenberg, David, filmmaker (b at Toronto 15 Mar 1943). Cronenberg studied literature at the University of Toronto and while there made 2 short films. Stereo (1969) and Crimes of the Future (1970)
- Salon Brilliant Careers | David Cronenberg
- For more than three decades, his films have been taking you to the weirdest of worlds. Lucky for you, you can always walk out -- unless you're too terrified to move.
- David Cronenberg
- by Ashley Allinson - profile of film director David Cronenberg
- David Cronenberg - Celebrity Atheist List
- In a February 1992 interview in Esquire magazine Cronenberg is said to describe himself as "not just an atheist, but a total nonbeliever."
- David Cronenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- David Cronenberg is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is sometimes known as the "body horror" genre, which explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical.
- David Cronenberg Interviews Salman Rushdie
- David Cronenberg and Salman Rushdie talk about the viscious media, the internet, CRASH and more. - Copyright 1995 SHIFT Magazine Inc.
- David Cronenberg- The Director
- Censors do what only psychotics do... they confuse reality with illusion. A friend of mine saw 'Videodrome', said he really liked it, and added, you know someday they're going to lock you up. [Suicide] ...it's probably the only way we can give our death a meaning, because otherwise it's completely arbitrary. I don't have a moral plan. I'm a Canadian."
- Variety.com - Working with bigscreen directors, opera authoritie
- The combination of buzz and an unexpected perspective is also the reason Los Angeles Opera has been at the forefront of using movie directors -- such as William Friedkin, Garry Marshall and Herb Ross -- since its debut in 1986. The newest director for the company will be David Cronenberg, who will helm an opera based on his sci-fi pic "The Fly" next year.
- Premiere - Sex on Film: David Cronenberg
- The director of 'A History of Violence' on why sex and violence go together like a horse and carriage.,
Cronenberg (and a few others) On Cronenberg
These titles offer biographies, critical commentary and interviews with David Cronenberg about his work, his screenwriting and his films.
Official Movie Sites
- Eastern Promises (2007)
- Eastern Promises is the next Cronenberg film, currently in production.
- A History of Violence Movie: Trailers, Maria Bello, Viggo Mortensen Movies Cannes Film Festival 2005
- A History of Violence Drama/Thriller Movie. Actor Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Maria Bello and William Hurt in upcoming new movie trailers and behind the scenes video clips at the Cannes Film Festival 2005 International Movie Awards.
- Spider, the movie
- The only thing worse than losing your mind... is finding it again.
- Cannes Film Festival - David Cronenberg
- Biography and Filmography - Films Presented in Cannes - Awards - Member of the Jury - News
- Fine Line Features | Crash
- CRASH -- the official Web site for David Cronenberg's Crash, starring James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Unger, and Rosanna Arquette. Crash is rated NC-17, and is based on the novel by J.G. Ballard. From Fine Line Features.
Alternate Realities
In each of these films, the main characters have an established alternate reality and their perceptions tend to shift back and forth from the "real" world and a surreal one that may or may not be just in their heads.
Commentary and Criticism
These articles discuss Cronenberg's work, both overall and in the context of specific films.
- Film Scouts Interviews
- David Cronenberg on "Crash" by Harlan Jacobson, May 19, 1996
- DAVID CRONENBERG RE-EXAMINES DAVID CRONENBERG: Film Freak Central's Retrospective
- Offered the opportunity to revisit with David Cronenberg recently, I sat down with the legendary director the morning after moderating a post-screening Q&A with him at Denver's Landmark Mayan Theater (where a sell-out crowd of over 450 was enthusiastically in attendance for a sneak of Spider)
- David Cronenberg
- David Cronenberg posters, filmography, news, and forum from rottentomatoes.com
- Eviscerating David Cronenberg
- The purpose of this essay is to eviscerate David Cronenberg's pith; or, rather, to examine the thematic insistence of evisceration in his films.
- DAVID CRONENBERG Moves beyond bug powder, car wrecks and porking robots
- It seemed to me that it would be impossible to sit down for a chat with David Cronenberg and not discuss people snorting bug spray, or having sex with machines or copulating with bile-dripping hallucinatory creatures.
- NPR : David Cronenberg on 'A History of Violence'
- He's been called the King of Venereal Horror. He directed the films M. Butterfly, The Fly, Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch, all of which tell a story of sexually deviant behavior. n Crash, Cronenberg continued the theme, combining sex and car wrecks. But in his new film, A History of Violence, the director has crafted a psychological thriller about one man's potential for violence.
- Quiz - What Cronenberg Movie Are You?
- Is there a David Cronenberg movie that sums up your life? Check it and see...
- disinformation | david cronenberg
- If there is a filmmaker who has accurately captured the pathological undercurrents of late 20th Century terminal life: institutionalised disaster areas, deviant sexual impulses spinning out of control and the rise of a Dark Culture, it is truly Canadian David Cronenberg.
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Bodies In Revolt
Clips, Videos and Interviews
Here's what YouTube has to offer on the topic of David Cronenberg. You'll find a mix of interviews, movie clips and video edits that utilitze excerpts from his films.
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