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CANNES 2012: Brandon Cronenberg's ANTIVIRAL

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"Antiviral," Brandon Cronenberg’s directorial debut, proves the apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree. Like his father David Cronenberg’s early features, "Antiviral" is more of a collection of inspired, perverse ideas than a cogent piece de provocation.
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • May 21, 2012 1:31 PM
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More: Cannes Film Festival, Simon Abrams, Brandon Cronenberg, Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Joe Pingue, Douglas Smith, David Cronenberg

VIDEO: PHYSICAL INSTINCTS Traces Phantom Limbs Inside David Cronenberg

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This mesmerising video by filmmaker Gina Telaroli takes David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers as a cinematic slab upon which she splays a corpus oozing with audiovisual reference points. In the video's accompanying essay Telaroli's explains, "Genre could be a body transplant of sorts, a series of reconstructed appendages to approximate an ultimate, mass-manufactured body, story, romance." With appearances by Hitchcock, Caligari, Caravaggio, and dozens other sources for you to tease out. Originally published at the Moving Image Source.
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  • By Kevin B. Lee
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  • February 29, 2012 12:35 PM
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VIDEO ESSAY: Outstanding Collaborative Performance: The Fly (1986)

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David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of "The Fly" would have been a shoo-in for a theoretical best collaborative performance Oscar. What makes it truly special is its empathy for its arrogant scientist hero, Seth Brundle, who tests his revolutionary new matter transporter on himself and becomes genetically fused with a fly that was not supposed to be in the telepod with him. Jeff Goldblum’s performance as Seth Brundle is a nexus point for all the film’s creative elements: direction, writing, acting, makeup, optical effects, miniatures and puppetry. Goldblum’s work here brings everything together. It’s kind of a thespian telepod.
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  • By Matt Zoller Seitz and Steven Santos
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  • February 21, 2012 9:40 AM
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