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| Posted By: Pope13 Posted On: Sep 20, 2007 Views: 605 | Nice catch on Spider I completely forgot about Spider, good call on that. personally, I prefer Cronenberg adapting other peoples works and I would put Naked Lunch at the top of my list of my favorites, closely followed by Dead Ringers. As for his original scripts, Videodrome is my favorite. I liked eXistenZ were good, but it had a bit too much navel gazing for my taste. |
| Posted By: Mitch Posted On: Sep 19, 2007 Views: 646 | Spider is up there I voted for Naked Lunch, but agree with those who also put Spider and eXistenz up high. Winterbottom got a lot of kudoss for making Tristram Shandy which looked like an unfilmable book to many. Well, Naked Lunch is even more of an implausible film adaptation. DC's movie linearized the story somewhat, literalized it, turned it into a story about the author, etc etc -- but that's how you tame an unfilmable book. And was the end product fascinating, enthralling, repulsive and alluring? Yes! But I'd like to mention Cronenberg's work as an actor in others' movies ... Especially his turn in Don McKellar's Last Night, in which he plays a gas company official who stays late at his office to call customers and warn them the gas service will be interrupted, due to the impending end of the world. ==Mitch |
| Posted By: Jennifer Linton Posted On: Sep 18, 2007 Views: 725 | David Cronenberg "Naked Lunch" and "Videodrome" are certainly amongst my favourite Cronenberg films, but I feel his best film to date is "Spider". BTW I'm a female Filmspotting fan in Toronto! Sorry that I didn't manage to make it out to your T.O "sausage fest" fan meet-up, but I've a newborn baby who tends to keep me at home in the evenings ;-) -- Jen |
| Posted By: Bradford Chapman Posted On: Sep 18, 2007 Views: 439 | A History of Violence I had basically written Cronenberg after Crash and Existenz, but really enjoyed A History of Violence. William Hurt's five minutes of screen time were brilliant. |
| Posted By: Nat Posted On: Sep 18, 2007 Views: 402 | Dead Ringers In a close race with Crash. |
| Posted By: Jon Colletti Posted On: Sep 18, 2007 Views: 361 | Videodrome Just watched Videodrome for the first time, a new personal favorite for me |
| Posted By: Matt Singer Posted On: Sep 17, 2007 Views: 373 | Videodrome for me Have to say VIDEODROME is definitely the glaring omission. |
| Posted By: Cory Heitman Posted On: Sep 17, 2007 Views: 374 | Cronen-fly Dead Ringers, in a close one over "The Fly". |
| Posted By: chesterfilms Posted On: Sep 17, 2007 Views: 764 | Dead Zone? Wow! Not much love for The Dead Zone. |
| Posted By: Paul Posted On: Sep 17, 2007 Views: 777 | Huh? Why would Crash be included on the list but not Videodrome or Scanners? |
| Posted By: Tom Mitchell Posted On: Sep 17, 2007 Views: 791 | Spider I was really surprised to see Spider was not on the list. It is an amazing look at madness and identity. very Kafka like, which I that he was going for. |
| Posted By: Ed K. Posted On: Sep 17, 2007 Views: 377 | Dead Ringers This really should have been in the poll. Absolute, undeniable masterpiece. p.s. After airing his views of History Of Violence, Matt Ballgame is on thin ice... |
| Posted By: Tyro Prate Posted On: Sep 16, 2007 Views: 452 | Overrated Overrated isn't strong enough a word to describe Cronenberg. Hack, perhaps. |
| Posted By: Dan Krahn Posted On: Sep 15, 2007 Views: 454 | Dead Ringers I'm always surprised Cronenberg doesn't come up more on the show... but being Canadian maybe I'm biased towards him. From the list you guys threw up, I'd chose Crash, which of all his films has haunted me the most. But, my favourite would probably be either Dead Ringers or Videodrome, and it kinda baffles me that they weren't on the list. Do I detect a gap in the Filmspotting education? |
| Posted By: Jeff Posted On: Sep 15, 2007 Views: 491 | best of cronenberg As others have pointed out, Videodrome and Dead Ringers are indeed the best of Cronenberg's films. From the list provided, I would pick A History of Violence. And don't underestimate Crash. While it was bound to turn off mainstream critics and filmgoers, it is some kind of masterpiece. Thematically, it's of a piece with Videodrome and Dead Ringers |
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