Re: David Cronenberg
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2022 3:42 pm
As far as I can gather the only features missing from both sets are lost films.
Spielberg, no? Or is there something (probably famously) not on blu I’m missing?EddieLarkin wrote: Sat Oct 22, 2022 1:13 pm Completing the availability of his entire 22 feature film filmography on Blu-ray.
I wonder if there's a director who also has their entire output on Blu-ray with more films than Cronenberg? John Carpenter comes to 21 if you count his TV movies.
By my count, there are 77 of his films available on Blu-ray, and going by Wikipedia and IMDb his full filmography consists of somewhere between 173 and 206 entries. So we're not even half way there! 16 years into the format, that means we should see the rest by 2058*. Mercifully, many of us will be dead before then (saying this as someone who *sigh* owns 42 of the 77).domino harvey wrote: Sat Oct 22, 2022 4:09 pm Give it enough time and I’m sure Jess Franco will be fully represented by an assortment of boutique labels. That’s how we’ll know physical media is dead, when they run out of Jess Franco movies to release
No, you're right, and at 33 films Spielberg is surely the winner (Ridley Scott is another Cronenberg beater at 27). Bergman, Allen and Lang all have bigger filmographies but each have a small handful of films that are still DVD only.Mario G. wrote: Sat Oct 22, 2022 4:10 pm Spielberg, no? Or is there something (probably famously) not on blu I’m missing?
Now available on 4K UHD + Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome!Persona wrote:eXistenZ is actually a Top 3 Cronenberg for me. I love it deeply.
I have this now and it looks great. Almost too great with the incredible clarity of the 4K transfer. I can see every pore on the actors’ faces. It looks as good or better than I remember from multiple 35mm viewings in 1999. A solid collection of extras as well, both new and pulled from previous editions. If you don’t need the “flesh-textured hard slipcase,” a standard edition will be available January 30.Matt wrote:Now available on 4K UHD + Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome!Persona wrote:eXistenZ is actually a Top 3 Cronenberg for me. I love it deeply.
How did the protest add so much time to the screening? I was at the Oh, Canada showing that got disrupted (and the Almodovar, where he and Tilda Swinton were kind enough to provide a mic to the pro-Palestinian protests doing the disrupting), and I can't have imagined that it made the show run more than 5 minutes over.hearthesilence wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 4:25 amAnnoyingly, it was disrupted by an Extinction Rebellion protest that added another 20 or 30 minutes to a screening that already started pretty late. Cronenberg addressed this with some bemusement, recognizing that they must not be aware that he was already on the same page with their ostensible goals. They also held a protest during Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada, which I guess is further indication that they have no clue of what they're doing.
I was completely unaware of the pro-Palestinian protest, and I agree with the way Almodovar and Swinton handled it (and not surprised either - Swinton has vocally opposed Israel's destructive response from the very beginning). Colbert did something similar when protesters interrupted an interview with Nancy Pelosi - instead of silencing them or throwing them out, he asked them first to settle down and then relayed their questions and concerns to Pelosi, asking her to address them.Never Cursed wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 4:31 amHow did the protest add so much time to the screening? I was at the Oh, Canada showing that got disrupted (and the Almodovar, where he and Tilda Swinton were kind enough to provide a mic to the pro-Palestinian protests doing the disrupting), and I can't have imagined that it made the show run more than 5 minutes over.hearthesilence wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 4:25 amAnnoyingly, it was disrupted by an Extinction Rebellion protest that added another 20 or 30 minutes to a screening that already started pretty late. Cronenberg addressed this with some bemusement, recognizing that they must not be aware that he was already on the same page with their ostensible goals. They also held a protest during Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada, which I guess is further indication that they have no clue of what they're doing.
I'm hardly opposed to either cause, and I think the pro-Palestinian one was actually well-targeted and topical, but interrupting the film itself (as they did for the Schrader film) just seems a bad strategy. It also makes the NYFF security look like idiots in failing to find the huge banners that they unfurled.
I wondered what happened. How stupid that this is the reason.hearthesilence wrote: Thu Apr 17, 2025 7:07 am(At one point he discusses Brexit's impact on his films - due to the way his films are financed, he can actually no longer work with Peter Suschitzky because he's British and he needs to hire someone from an EU country.)
I'll keep it as short as I can without overgeneralizing it. Unless a major streamer is bankrolling them from the start, most name directors in the art film world end up getting their financing overseas. In order to make it work, they usually end up taking advantage of a tax credit, but those tax credits are usually passed into law to draw things like labor, so there will be a stipulation that says you have to hire a certain number of locals (or in this case citizens of the EU) in order qualify for the tax credit. It varies and not all positions (usually the higher up ones like the director or lead actor) will apply.Matt wrote: Fri Apr 18, 2025 2:47 amI wondered what happened. How stupid that this is the reason.hearthesilence wrote: Thu Apr 17, 2025 7:07 am(At one point he discusses Brexit's impact on his films - due to the way his films are financed, he can actually no longer work with Peter Suschitzky because he's British and he needs to hire someone from an EU country.)
hearthesilence wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 3:11 am I went to see Eastern Promises at a MoMA program celebrating Focus Features' anniversary, and during the opening barber scene, after two people were cracking up at what was clearly intentional humor running through the entire scene, some guy actually yelled at them. He actually said something like "is this really FUNNY?!?" and the response was "Um....yeah?"