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Trapped in the Closet: “Closet Monster” and Queer Body Horror
Kyle Turner explores the history of body horror in queer cinema in relation to the new film "Closet Monster."
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Opening Acts 3/6/2015
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There's no universal "right age" for Aliens, or any other movie by...
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Falling Stars: The Peril of Fame in Film
Looking from the outside in, the lives of the rich and the famous look pretty spiffy. They live in awesome houses, they wear awesome clothes, they have awesome accoutrements, and they get to do awesome stuff pretty much all day, every day. But if David Bowie a...
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“Maps to the Stars”
For a director who’s never shot a film in the States before, David Cronenberg surely wastes no energy to ease in to the process with his new effort, and aims for the heart from the get-go. In his uncanny Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars, everyone is haunted ...
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Looking for Something That’ll… Break Through: The Posters of David Cronenberg
Film is art. The way a scene is framed can evoke the strongest of emotions. Seeing the face of an excitedly terrified young man as he stares at his older lover through the way her leg seductively bends or having a solitary man walk across a bridge, futuristic ...
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Watch This: 1988 Interview with David Cronenberg
One of the best things about the internet is that you suddenly have a wealth of interviews and anecdotes from your favorite filmmakers is at your fingertips, and you discover beforehand unseen footage that enlightens your understanding of the filmmaker's catal...
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“Stored in the Thighs”: On “Maps to the Stars” and David Cronenberg’s Comedies of Physical Frailty
Depending on where you stand, the past year has either been a watershed for David Cronenberg or another measured auteurist step. In September, the Toronto-based filmmaker joined a small club of septuagenarian debut novelists, releasing Consumed, an equally pul...
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Sunset and Stars: On Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars”
Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg’s first film shot in the U.S., is an unapologetic slap in the face of Hollywood. Replete with star-fucking, stalking, suicide, murder, and incest, it's essentially the smarter, meaner twin that ate The Canyons in utero. Star...
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Opening Acts 1/12/2015
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What the Golden Globes Got Right by Aniruddha Guha. Guha prai...
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Opening Acts 1/8/2014
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David Cronenberg Says Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrecking Film Critic...
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