(On David Cronenberg)[He] has helped me do really good work, better than other directors. Maybe because he understands my process and because we have some things in common in terms of our sensibility – the kinds of books we like to read, our sense of humor is similar. Viggo Mortensen with Cronenberg, another with Lisandro Alonso<\/a><\/p>\n Amy Taubin interviews David Cronenberg about Crimes of the Future <\/a><\/p>\n GROSS CLINIC (artforum) <\/p>\n DAVID CRONENBERG\u2019S Crimes of the Future is a stunning film: visually, emotionally, viscerally, and narratively. It is both hallucinatory and intensely real\u2014an echo chamber of Cronenbergiana colliding with a city whose three-thousand-year history can be mined but never contained. It sounds ridiculously simple, but it is Athens, as location and inspiration, that makes Crimes a new direction for Cronenberg, even as it is possibly his magnum opus. The movie, which takes its title and thankfully little else from one of the director\u2019s early experimental films, is set in an indeterminate future that often resembles Renaissance paintings. The only people left on Earth are a small group of performance body-modification artists, their followers, and a few functionaries of the surveillance state\u2014still dedicated to law and order while promoting chaos by playing everyone against one another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n AT: The lighting is very different from the lighting I\u2019ve seen before in your films.<\/p>\n DC: It\u2019s shooting in Athens, and in Mediterranean light, which I\u2019ve never done before. I really embraced Athens and Greece for everything, including the streets, the graffiti, the color of the Mediterranean, and that had a lot to do with the way the film looked. When I wrote the script more than twenty years ago, I was thinking of Toronto, of course. But once we decided on Athens, I embraced it completely. And part of it is the color.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Thanks to Kanopy streaming, I finally was able to see this film and read this interview of Cronenberg by Amy Taubin who concluded that many of Cronenberg films were great love stories. <\/p>\n Happy Valentine’s Day<\/strong> – here more on David Cronenberg below.. <\/p>\n The Actor: When you record the moment, you record the death of the moment. Children and death are a bad combination.<\/p>\n <> <> Cronenberg Beyond Cinema: his photos were exhibited <\/a><\/p>\n <> <> DAVID CRONENBERG (born 1943) has been lauded for his blurring of boundaries between technology and the individual, but this praise has consistently missed the point, for his films have singularly denied the existence of any such boundaries. (Read more here<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crimes of the Future (On David Cronenberg)[He] has helped me do really good work, better than other directors. Maybe because he understands my process and because we have some things in common in terms of our sensibility – the kinds of books we like to read, our sense of humor is similar. It’s comforting to … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1aaDavidViggo-e1634674740213.jpg\")
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\n It’s comforting to be working with someone you know will make a good movie. Some people will say, ‘Ahhh, he’s over the top, it’s gratuitous,’ [but] I disagree completely. He’s one of the most responsible filmmakers today as far as showing violence – which there’s very little of compared to other movies. It just stays with you because he shows very little of it. It just stays with you and he’s very direct about it. He shows you what happens, and what the consequences are physically and emotionally, in some cases; certainly he does in A History of Violence (2005), and also here [in Eastern Promises (2007)], that makes him very honest. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/a>
\nLea Seydoux was first offered to play the role Kristen Stewart played, Lea told Cronenberg that she prefers to play Caprice, the performance partner of Viggo Mortensen. <\/p>\n
\nAmy Taubin talks with David Cronenberg about Crimes of the Future<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n