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| Posted By: Pope13 Posted On: Sep 20, 2007 Views: 398 | 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: 440 | 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: 520 | 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 |
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