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B[O]rn in Toronto, March 15, 1943, David Cronenberg wasn't your average kid. For example, while most youngsters would be outside playing, David would spend hours watching with rapt attention exactly how a praying mantis devoured a meal. While his parents were, by all accounts normal, they didn't exactly have common, everyday jobs. David's father was a newspaper stamp columnist for the Toronto Telegram and freelance writer and his mother a professional pianist, and he grew up surrounded by books and art. His early interests were fiction and science, and he never saw them as being incompatible. In fact, he went on to study science at the University of Toronto.
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In David Cronenberg's visionary thriller, Jennifer Jason Leigh is a game designer who has conceived a virtual reality game that hooks into peoples' bodies. When she is pursued by a radical anti-game group, Leigh joins forces with marketing trainee Jude Law on the lam in the dangerous, alternative world she has created. With Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe. 97 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English; theatrical trailer.
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David Cronenberg has had a long and interesting career. While most of his movies have been labeled “cult” fare (and not for the general public), his most recent pictures have begun changing that image. His last film, A History of Violence, was well received and featured such non-Cronenberg staples as a straightforward narrative and no weird monsters. His latest project, Eastern Promises, will further this idea of a “new Cronenberg.”
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David Cronenberg actually has a sense of humour. That same light tone continued later in press conference, when one journalist commented upon the fact that Eastern Promises seemed much more hopeful and optimistic that some of Cronenberg’s other films.
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Born in Toronto, Ontario, David Cronenberg began writing gory short stories at an early age. He was fascinated by things like "watching praying mantises eating grasshoppers," and felt that his inclination towards gore set him apart from other youngsters. He studied science at the University of Toronto, switching later to literature. When a college friend made a short film, Cronenberg was "stunned, shocked and exhilarated" by the medium, and said to himself, "I’ve got to try this!" He made two short films, and in order to get funding from the Canada Council for a feature length film, pretended to be writing a novel. Money in hand, he made Stereo (1969), set at the fictitious Canadian Academy for Erotic Inquiry, followed by Crimes of the Future (1970), in which a dermatologist creates a condition that makes its victims indulge in bizarre fetishes and acts of homosexuality.
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From All Movie Guide: Like Tobe Hooper and George Romero, David Cronenberg sprang into public consciousness with a series of low-budget horror films that shocked and surprised audiences for their sheer audacity and intelligence. Unlike the former two filmmakers, Cronenberg has been able to avoid being pigeonholed into a single restrictive genre category. His works, which consistently explore the same themes, have the mark of a true auteur in the strictest sense of the word. Cronenberg's films have the unnerving ability to delve into society's collective unconscious and dredge up all of the perverse, suppressed desires of modern life. His world features grotesque deformities, hallucinatory couplings, and carnality unhinged from its corporeal moorings. The body mutates and becomes something horrific as in Rabid (1977) or The Fly (1986), psyches fuse with technology as in Crash (1996) and Videodrome (1983), and the act of sex itself is rendered bizarre and alien in Naked Lunch (1991) and Dead Ringers (1988).
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