Movies: David Cronenberg

In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut...

'Karim' tells the tale of a troubled boy who finds himself trapped in a world where fear, violence and abuse surround him, preying on his every thought and action. The film follows Karim on a day that will forever change his life, culminating in a sa...

The work of Montreal sculptor Jim Ritchie, living in France at the time. There is no narration but a music track accompanies this documentary for Canadian public television made by David Cronenberg while in France....

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera....

Director David Cronenberg discusses his transition from the experimental filmmaking of 'Stero' and 'Crimes of the Future' to working within the commercial Canadian film industry....

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch....

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Through the use of interviews (both vintage and new) with various cast and crew members, including Rick Baker, Bill Sturgeon, David Cronenberg, James Woods among others, as well as behind-the-scenes footage, this tells the story of how the special ef...

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

"L'inquiétante absence" is a documentary that examines the current state of genre films in Québec. In an attempt to answer their questions, the filmmakers conducted several interviews with leading figures of Québec's genre cinema from various backgro...

Mick Garris hosts this look at horror films with John Carpenter, John Landis and David Cronenberg all discussing their favorite scare films as well as what they think makes them work....

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....

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....

Michael Ironside discusses his role as Darryl Revok in the 1981 sci-fi/horror cult classic "Scanners."...

One day, two film making students meet evil....

A recording of the eponymous ballet choreographed by Olga Roriz, produced for Canadian public television....

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...

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

This TV play, written and directed David Cronenberg, explores one of his enduring themes: obsessive relationships with technology. A group of bike fanatics determine to get their hands on a Ducati 900 Desmo SuperSport owned by a rich guy, by any mean...