David Cronenberg — Actor (25)
David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh (1999) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh
director: André S. Labarthe actor: David Cronenberg / Serge Grünberg
“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 in the opportunity to explore the themes and motifs behind each one.
Blue (1992) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blue
director: Don McKellar actor: Brad Armstrong / David Cronenberg
New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.
Palace of Pleasure (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Palace of Pleasure
director: John Hofsess actor: Patricia Murphy / Norman Walker
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 imagery and album and book jackets, all of it framed as a therapeutic treatment. Addressed to a generation coming up in an era of protest and social change, where many found themselves increasingly burdened with hopelessness, paranoia, and neurosis, The Palace of Pleasure was offered as a cleansing ritual, a post-Freudian expelling of dammed-up energies that anticipated The Primal Scream. In this video, Stephen Broomer discusses Hofsess’s therapeutic ambitions, how the film was composed of Hofsess’s earlier films, and the sensual spell of the work, the way in which it commands us to enter into a universal fellowship of touch that circulates, from us to us, through us, to strain the boundaries between the self and the other.
Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Unmade Films of J.G. Ballard
director: Chris Petit actor: J.G. Ballard / David Cronenberg
other title: The Unmade Films of J.G. Ballard
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.