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| | Do you want to understand the world around you? Not if you're smart! But if you're dumb like me this movie will answer lots of questions you'll wish you never asked. VIDEODROME has joined the ranks of things like Kurt Vonnegut's "Welcome to the Monkey House" and "Harrison Bergeron," and movies like NETWORK and BRAZIL that seemed wild flights of fancy when published, but now play like news reports and documentaries. Cronenberg's most paranoid film (which is like saying Shirley Temple's most sentimental film). So many haunting beautiful things… Dr. Brian O'Blivion, the genius who only exists on thousands of videotapes... Nikki (Deborah Harry from Blondie in her nudest role) the masochist Talk Show host who wants her breasts burned with cigarettes, and ends up living in James Woods' TV… the large vagina that grows in James Woods' stomach to provide a place to hide a gun, so he can become an assassin… and of course Viudeodrome itself, a sinister hypnotic satellite TV network that shows nothing but nude women chained to a mud wall being flogged against a soft clay wall. "Videodrome is dangerous. It has a philosophy" DVD FEATURES: Widescreen anamorphic - 1.85:1 • Region 1 • Available Audio: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) • Available subtitles: Spanish, French, English (captions) |
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| | This one-hour documentary program is a treat for Cronenberg fans. Articulate and highly thoughtful about his work and its dominant themes, Cronenberg is an engaging intellectual throughout an extensive interview, explaining how he'd been inspired by the New York underground scene of the 1950s (perhaps destined to be "an obscure novelist," he says) when an independent Canadian film titled "Winter Kept Us Warm" prompted him to pursue filmmaking. "The body is the first fact of human existence," the director observes, in reference to the fascination with flesh, mutation, and other bodily matters that recur throughout his films. Shivers and Scanners are given their due, including enjoyable interview clips with ex-porn star Marilyn Chambers and Michael Ironside (the latter providing a revealing anecdote about Cronenberg describing a bizarre dream). Cronenberg blames Paramount for botching the release of The Dead Zone, and discussion of Crash allows him to reveal his disdainful "strange relationship" with film critics, while Holly Hunter observes that Crash is an exercise in "exploring the moral code." An illuminating examination of a truly original director. |
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| | Cronenberg's most impressive movie in YEARS. Really good. "A brilliant and powerful psychological thriller about a deeply disturbed boy, Spider, who ‘sees’ his father brutally murder his mother and replace her with a prostitute. Convinced they plan to murder him next, Spider hatches an insane plan, which he carries through to tragic effect. Years later, his delusional account of his past begins to unravel and Spider spirals into fresh madness. Starring: Academy Award® Nominee Ralph Fiennes (Red Dragon,Schindler’s List,The English Patient), Golden Globe Winner Miranda Richardson (Enchanted April, Damage), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, Enemy of the State), Golden Globe Winner Lynn Redgrave (Shine, Gods and Monsters)" Commentary by David Cronenberg • Theatrical trailer • "In the Beginning: How Spider Came to Be" featurette • "Weaving the Web: The Making of Spider" featurette • "Caught in Spider's Web: The Cast" featurette • Widescreen anamorphic format |
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