Coming
up this week: I still need to blog the
Warrior taster, there's my
first social outing with Manchester Andy's Man Club, and then I break from work
for Christmas. It's Mad Friday! The last Friday before Christmas
should see a plethora of people hitting Manchester. I have no solid
plans but I expect there'll be a story out there somewhere. Tweet me
if you've got one.
Also,
I've got an Amazon Prime 30 day trial. I've activated it- I just have
to remember to cancel it in time... Keen to see if they have any of
the numerous films that are sadly lacking from Netflix.
Last
week I finished reading Cronenberg on Cronenberg, from publisher
Faber and Faber and edited by Chris Rodley. It comprises of responses
from interviews with Canadian surrealist filmmaker David Cronenberg,
he of Crash / The Fly / Scanners fame. The interviews follow the
chronology of his career, starting with his polite, middle class
Toronto upbringing and his progression through film school and into
the realisation of his early works (something, since reading about,
I've put on my Amazon wishlist).
It goes on to investigate his later, more successful movies like the
Fly and Crash, but was published in '97 so before Existenz and
subsequent films.
David
Cronenberg makes weird, fucked up movies. You want someone fucking a
flesh wound in a woman's leg? He's filmed it. A flesh-eating
skin-graft in a woman's armpit? Check. Mind readers who explode their
subjects' heads. You got it. His explanations of the hidden meanings
in his films make for fascinating reading, although obviously if the
films aren't for you, the book won't be either. He's more than a
low-budget schlock horror movie maker, so if you want gore, he's your
man, but if you want intellectual concepts along with that, you will
be far from disappointed.
Are his movies on Amazon Prime, though? They aren't on Netflix...
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