Movies: David Cronenberg

A film essay on Ballard's fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg's (yet to be filmed) Crash, featuring an interview with the director, prior to making of his film....

A short behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of "Dead Ringers," including interviews with writer-director David Cronenberg, star Jeremy Irons, co-producer Marc Boyman, and optical effect supervisor Lee Wilson....

A couple gets marooned in an isolated household. The owner and her helper live under the guise that deceased loved ones still live. This gets projected on the unrelated couple who start to become affected themselves....

The debut feature from Canada's most celebrated filmmaker, David Cronenberg, Shivers provided the young director with a crash course in feature filmmaking and established many of the unsettling themes explored in his later work. In the film, medical ...

Tells the story of David Secter, Canada's first acclaimed indie filmmaker....

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television....

“I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh” is an insightful and candid interview with the man himself about his films and his motivations. Cronenberg is cheerfully frank about his often grotesque images and controversial subject matter, and clearly relishes ...

Acid-scarred teenager Pheromone Labonza (aka Acid Head) is a vengeful, bloodsucking cannibal goth-girl killer that slashes her way though rural Buzzard Nuts County, N.Y.'s roadside and Vom College sorority House (which also serves as an underground w...

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television....

John Hofsess’s The Palace of Pleasure emerged from the psychedelic haze of 1960s postmodern art. It was a blistering work that combined arresting abstract imagery with the wounded expressions of a young couple, edited into a collage of mass culture i...

When a troubled teen aged girl goes missing, an ex-detective is forced to take on the case which he slowly realizes is a lot stranger than it originally seemed....

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television....

Where futures are known and happiness is guaranteed by G.O.D., a mother is given a choice - her child or her perfect future....

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television....

Centering on L'Ecuyer's identity as a gay man, the film unfolds as a series of vignettes depicting various key moments in his life....

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television....

Verlin is 9 years old and does not talk, nor does he even seem to hear. Henry, a child-like adult, befriends Verlin and pulls him from his shell. Verlin's mother mistrusts Henry, who she feels is dangerous....

New featurette, David Cronenberg, cinematographer Anthony B. Richomond, and professor Sarah Street (University of Bristol), amongst others, discuss the use of color in Don't Look Now as well as the manner in which it affects the film's tone and atmos...

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In an abandoned power plant, a paranoiac electrician dreams he discovers a piece of shapeless flesh in a jar. Armed with plans, he wanders about a world of post-apocalyptic ruins through various scenes charged with symbols....