'crimes of the future'

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throws cronenberg in a whole new light for me this; absolutely savage vision of a world bored, empty, preened, aestheticised beyond the zero, conquered by make-up... "creative cancer". filmed through a rouge lens remarkable in the way it induces said ennui in its viewers, unbearably long and pointless shots while the protagonist "adrian tripod" mumbles through overwritten intellectual blah. teeters on the brink of being the mpost textbook worst filmschool movie ever

homophobic i wonder?

the soundtrack is amazing as well, silence, sighs, scrapes and drones and plinks neither placed for effect nor selfconsciously to imply randomness (you can just tell i guess), arbitrary

― zemko (bob), Monday, 27 January 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah sorry this was a film cronenberg did at university that i managed to catch over the weekend at the OTHER cinema, anyone else seen it etc etc

― zemko (bob), Monday, 27 January 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

and first one to say something like "i thought this would be a thread about stealing someone's gravity boots" gets a slap

― zemko (bob), Monday, 27 January 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

It is fantastically self indulgent. That's all I remember of a slight stumble through bit of it late on the Sci-Fi channel once.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 27 January 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I had the Criterion Collection laserdisc of "Dead Ringers" and it was a bonus. I thought it was very interesting but also very boring. Nicely shot for a student film. It did contain the kernel of ideas found in many later films, but without a compelling plot or performances (actually many of his early films didn't have complelling performances either.) And I didn't think it was homophobic, quite the contrary. In a book about his films Cronenberg says that after he screened it in film school some of the gay students ended up hitting on him; the tone of the film is rather gay; chalk much of that up to the narration by a very gay sounding voice, although it does go beyond that. Anyway, when I got a DVD player, I ended up trading the laserdisc for a nice looking DVD... to discover that although much of the bonus material was present, "Crimes of the Future" wasn't! It's ok, it's not like I'd play it all the time, but it was nice to have around. I believe it was only ever issued on that laserdisc package. I should have at least videotaped it.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry, I thought this would be a thread about stealing someone's gravity boots. ;o)

Actually, I thought it might have something to do with Minority Report, but I suppose not...carry on.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

mm yeah sean it was boring but i have decided to attribute that to cronenberg's genius DO YOU SEE :) anyway it was hella gay, or at leats had all the signifiers but i think the boredom was deliberate and demolishing rather than just poor direction, thus my wondering re "rouge's malady" (see how foppish?! malady) but perhaps it is more a doublebluff critique of oldmen's views on deviancy. but it wasn't just gay; the overexplanation of nothing at all, lingering shots of nothing particularly important, it was the whole phenom of tarting things up whether physical or psychic

― zemko (bob), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah nick: SLAP

― zemko (bob), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

(btw ur right it only came out on that very laserdisc)

― zemko (bob), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

May I also add that while Jeremy Irons was very fine in "Reversal of Fortue" (funny, even); "Dead Ringers" is the film he should have won an Academy Award for.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

and genevieve bujold shd have won the award of becoming MINE ALL MINE ahem

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

you make this sound good even though yr quite upfront abt it's made by cronenberg.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

hah who am I kidding I ws never too cool for (film) school, cronenberg's k.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

read yr thomson man! 'the fly' esp

― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the thomson the bottom of a big bundle.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

is, is!

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Cronenberg's "Stereo" is basically the same film, but even MORE minimal.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

seventeen years pass...

Love the 1970 film, curious what the 2022 film of the same title is going to be like.
The original is the epitome of creating an entire fictional world with the most minimal means possible.

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 3 April 2022 20:06 (three years ago)

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