In this handsome period production, Cronenberg has solved the issues thematically but not artistically.
Cronenberg never goes overboard in his depiction of violence, a la Quentin Tarantino.
Though he's on his best behavior here, Cronenberg can't help but add his own provocative, off-kilter tone to the material.
However, she did record the original soundtrack for David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and she has re-recorded the concertino for this CD.
Earlier this year, David Cronenberg decried the lack of an intelligent adult cinema that allows the audience to think for itself.
Once again, David Cronenberg uses a movie to play with our minds, and to make us feel disgusted about having a body.
Cronenberg, known for films including The Fly, Crash and Eastern Promises, will be the first Canadian to receive the BFI's highest honour.
The new David Cronenberg film, set among Russian mobsters in London, stars Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai, a part-time chauffeur and full-time threat.
Despite the constrictions, Cronenberg keeps the space handsome and active, and much of the movie is dreamy and funny in an off-centered way.
The ascension, years later, of horror gods like Cronenberg and Raimi to critical and mainstream respectability validated all those hours of flipping through Fangoria.
Actor Ralph Fiennes and director David Cronenberg and are to receive BFI Fellowships at the 55th BFI London Film Festival (LFF) later this month.
The movie may be a grim warning against the perils of technology and its ability to spew alternative realities, but Cronenberg himself can hardly claim to have his feet firmly planted on the ground.
Mr. Pattinson, who no doubt wants to escape the ghoulish goldmine that has made him a star, isn't quite in step with the film's agenda: He's a bit too likable, as well as constricted, although those qualities are used by Mr. Cronenberg to the film's advantage.
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