‘I’ve never made a boring movie:’ David Cronenberg

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  • čas přidán 7. 06. 2022
  • Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg talks to Andrew Chang about people’s incorrect impressions of him, the changing film industry and why he thinks the movie theatre is over.
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Komentáře • 97

  • @Devilsblood
    @Devilsblood Před 5 měsíci +27

    One of the few artists in the world that never compromised their vision.

    • @ruling528
      @ruling528 Před 3 měsíci +1

      That's because he never had one to begin with.

    • @Devilsblood
      @Devilsblood Před 3 měsíci +8

      @ruling528 Keep watching your marvel films.

    • @ruling528
      @ruling528 Před 3 měsíci

      @@Devilsblood Even Marvel films are more entertaining than this guy's pretentious crap.

    • @Devilsblood
      @Devilsblood Před 3 měsíci

      @@ruling528 that's because you are naive and don't understand anything he's about. Now go back and watch your sanitized A24 crap.

    • @Devilsblood
      @Devilsblood Před 3 měsíci +6

      @@ruling528 you just don't watch enough good movies to understand that. But then again, you are probably one of those A24 looneys that think they discovered art.

  • @americanpancakelive
    @americanpancakelive Před měsícem +4

    I hate the cliche but wow, David is such a national treasure. I remember his early movies blowing me away, really digging it's surreal horror hooks in me.

  • @eddiegordon5616
    @eddiegordon5616 Před měsícem +4

    He’s been one of the directors who I’ve followed for a long time.

  • @SSS.1984
    @SSS.1984 Před 8 měsíci +22

    In my top 3 film makers (along with Lynch & Carpenter), but I will say that 3 films I find hard to get into are Fast Company, M. Butterfly & Cosmopolis. None are what I'd call boring however. There are audiences who will find their subject matter as interesting as their film maker clearly did. I am not among them, but at the same time I applaud David for standing behind them as films he's proud of!

  • @ianchristopher9422
    @ianchristopher9422 Před 8 měsíci +10

    He never made a bad movie either... some can be more interesting than others of course but never bad.

  • @dustinswarb9190
    @dustinswarb9190 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Love this man❤ sheer genius. A pure madman.

  • @goregrindisthebestgenre
    @goregrindisthebestgenre Před 4 měsíci +5

    One of the greatest writer/directors.

  • @aaronmarko
    @aaronmarko Před 6 měsíci +5

    If people aren't decrying your art, do you even matter as an artist

  • @perrycomeau2627
    @perrycomeau2627 Před rokem +24

    David Cronenberg is sensational for an adult mind with some sort of experience. Take his fascination with other agents such as Clive Barker.

  • @glassjaw2007
    @glassjaw2007 Před měsícem +3

    How dare you ask: “Were any moments that you were insecure?” The man has made a whole disturbing body of work that defined the medium, he knows he is a Giant, a Titan of uncompromised proportions and ideals, he is what every true filmmaker should aspire to, you must have a forceful impregnable conviction to build a career like that…

  • @Vgallo
    @Vgallo Před 5 měsíci +4

    I loved his latest film.

  • @FUKAOKEVERSE
    @FUKAOKEVERSE Před rokem +5

    I've met ppl who say my all-time fave film *Dead Ringers* is boring, soo....let's just say that film -and art generally - it's wholly subjective, and yes, that indeed makes Cronenberg's claim a fatuous one.

  • @samantasotelo5510
    @samantasotelo5510 Před rokem +30

    the interviewer is nefarious, didn't they find someone who knows more about the world of cinema to do an interview?

    • @princeandrey
      @princeandrey Před rokem +8

      Nefarious? Or just inadequate?

    • @leafyo123
      @leafyo123 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Amen this guy clearly doesn’t get it

  • @azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401

    I wish The Dead Zone, The Fly (remake), A History Of Violence, The Brood, Videodrome & Crash goes to aired on TCM next October in The Best of David Cronenberg.

    • @fleshsuitman
      @fleshsuitman Před rokem +1

      Shivers and rabid need to be there too then

    • @thefirst9500
      @thefirst9500 Před 10 měsíci +2

      Scanners was a good one too!

    • @Rayburn652
      @Rayburn652 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Dead Ringers? Eastern Promises?

  • @AName175
    @AName175 Před 2 měsíci +1

    He is so self confident.

  • @gterrymed
    @gterrymed Před 7 měsíci +2

    when you're ten and eleven years old THEY CAME FROM WITHIN, RABID, and THE BROOD each had Sllloww beginnings! It took about 40 minutes for stuff to clearly get going.

  • @joshuawilliams7734
    @joshuawilliams7734 Před rokem +11

    I'm glad Cronenberg got to make this film but when he said I might have to stop making movies and right another novel I was like Yes please because I really liked his novel Consumed :)

  • @robzilla730
    @robzilla730 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I'd love to see a vid of Cronenberg talking about Scanners or Michael Ironside...

  • @randygoodall6229
    @randygoodall6229 Před 11 měsíci +4

    The more this man ages the more he looks like Vincent price

  • @reignofrock
    @reignofrock Před 4 měsíci +2

    The apple fell far from the tree, unfortunately.

  • @fairuzmaileen5691
    @fairuzmaileen5691 Před 7 měsíci +2

    This is true

  • @twofingersmyfriends3830
    @twofingersmyfriends3830 Před 6 měsíci +4

    I love Cronenberg, he's one of my favourite filmmakers... But 'Spider' was a mind-numbing slog to finish.

  • @VIDEOgameDROME
    @VIDEOgameDROME Před rokem +3

    The only one I was bored by was Cosmopolis

  • @09nob
    @09nob Před 10 měsíci

    Agreed.

  • @kiff713
    @kiff713 Před rokem +19

    I would like to see a movie about a director strugglig with finances making his body-terror film

  • @TheNoiseySpectator
    @TheNoiseySpectator Před 10 měsíci

    That's right! 💡😮
    Cronenberg himself is an Alien!
    .... Except when he is back in Canada.

  • @brunoheggli2888
    @brunoheggli2888 Před měsícem

    Yes but why no ban all movies?

  • @squamish4244
    @squamish4244 Před měsícem

    I used to get Cronenberg and Lynch confused lol. I'm far from the only one. They both make weird, disturbing, bizarre, violent, trippy films, they reuse the same actors, they use each other's actors, they are both actors _themselves,_ they are the same age, and they look similar. Yeah. It's not rocket science hahaha

  • @lasttime1372
    @lasttime1372 Před 9 měsíci

    Oh, man! You did quite a few boring ones. But I love you nethertheless

  •  Před 9 měsíci

    abi yemin ediyom bu filmi izledim ama şimdi hiçbir yerde bulamıyorum lütfen yardım edin. bi iki leo sydoux görecektik

  • @rolandkunzjr263
    @rolandkunzjr263 Před rokem +3

    I Really Love All Films David Cronenberg Made, Except Crimes Of The Future...Oh My God...Boring.

    • @PreacherNny
      @PreacherNny Před rokem

      Crimes of the Future 1970, definitely. But Crimes of the Future 2022 was really fascinating

    • @Jeckxdeel
      @Jeckxdeel Před měsícem

      @@PreacherNny
      Really fascinating?
      Really boring you mean!

  • @ariedebruyn5218
    @ariedebruyn5218 Před 2 měsíci

    Well, it won't be boring. But the truth is we do actually need your help on this one.

    • @ariedebruyn5218
      @ariedebruyn5218 Před měsícem

      I did in the end see crimes of the future. It did show the climate change element. I just think though that they'll start genetically engineering other plant and animal life along with us. Coming up with a deranged planet. Still a big fan though... Your stuff is really hard to digest. But once you do, you're better off for it. It's the whole Marshall McLuhan thing, 'the medium is the message.'

    • @ariedebruyn5218
      @ariedebruyn5218 Před 19 dny

      Look David it's not that we stopped liking you here in Australia. It's just that all the video stores shut down. Gone are the days of renting movies with friends. I don't think JB Hi-Fi sells everything. I saw your latest film, you're available. And I'll probably see the Shrouds too. But I've never seen a film by one of your kids, because that stuff isn't available here.

    • @ariedebruyn5218
      @ariedebruyn5218 Před 17 dny

      climate change is real. but it's effects are not as catastrophic as they say it is. it's just that they have the capabilities to report on a much larger scale. i am actually a toronto blue jays fan.

    • @ariedebruyn5218
      @ariedebruyn5218 Před 17 dny

      history keeps on repeating. we actually breed at this rate. our population used to be kept in check by mosquitos and diseases. but we just keep on over-populating. the price of luxury i think.

    • @ariedebruyn5218
      @ariedebruyn5218 Před 17 dny

      god though... you're an atheist. it says so. but look. we all live a tortured existence. we do have moments of release. the patterns of genetics and biological determinism do work to people's benefit. luck is a factor. and people don't understand how lucky it is to be someone else. no-one understands the experience of being someone else. we're just fated to be the person we are.

  • @infyume
    @infyume Před 10 měsíci +6

    Awful questions and attitude from the interviewer. Seems like he's barely knowledgeable about Cronenberg's work or experimental cinema in general.

    • @greyeyed123
      @greyeyed123 Před 9 měsíci +1

      He might as well have asked David Lynch if he'd consider making a Star Wars movie. (Right as I typed this, he asked that question! I swear! lol)

  • @eldugongo
    @eldugongo Před měsícem

    Love him. Didn’t like the interviewer

  • @granthooper2329
    @granthooper2329 Před rokem

    Cmon youve never seen a film by him entirely. Make one special effect.

  • @journalsfromdavid
    @journalsfromdavid Před rokem +2

    The people that get it get it, creatives don’t think basic

  • @Hauerization
    @Hauerization Před 9 měsíci +1

    I would however argue that Crimes of the future ranks as one of Cronenbergs least interesting films, desptie how provocative the movie sets out to be. The dead zone and The fly is still unmatched.

    • @Ps3Aaron1
      @Ps3Aaron1 Před 9 měsíci +1

      I was bored by crimes of the future

    • @skippy277
      @skippy277 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Ps3Aaron1lmao …let me guess , your favourite movie of his was the Fly and you haven’t seen many of the others …if you were bored by Crimes then you are a simpleton. It was one of the most rewarding and realized view of humanities downfall to be ever made….zzzz you must be the boring one 😅

    • @Jeckxdeel
      @Jeckxdeel Před měsícem

      THE DEAD ZONE and THE FLY are wonderful.
      But my personal top 2 by Cronenberg includes SCANNERS and VIDEODROME.

    • @Hauerization
      @Hauerization Před měsícem

      @@Jeckxdeel Yes, Videodrome is great - Scanners I have mixed feelings about.

  • @dannyr9265
    @dannyr9265 Před rokem +1

    I wish you would keep your comment section open on all your videos. Especially the one with potato head and our Drama teacher.

  • @bobmcdade5217
    @bobmcdade5217 Před 28 dny

    A Dangerous Method was boring (but that is the only boring movie ever made by Cronenberg).

  • @zachmorley158
    @zachmorley158 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Scanners was super boring. Had 1 or 2 cool scenes

    • @Jeckxdeel
      @Jeckxdeel Před měsícem +1

      SCANNERS is not boring at all!
      Just go to bed!

  • @kramalerav
    @kramalerav Před 23 dny

    A huge fan of this guy’s work. But Fast Company really is a very boring film.

  • @SofaPop.
    @SofaPop. Před 9 měsíci

    I’m gonna be really emotional when Cronenberg actually stops directing

  • @scribbler3894
    @scribbler3894 Před 3 měsíci

    Not sure who the interviewer is but I don't like him.

  • @silirat
    @silirat Před rokem +7

    "I've never made a boring movie."
    Apparently he's never watched any of his own movies...

  • @painterguylincs
    @painterguylincs Před rokem +3

    "incorrect impressions"? If people are bored by you, then you're boring. If people call you boring, it's because you bore them. How can this be hard to understand. David Cronenberg is boring. All his films are boring. How do I know this? Because I'm bored, that's how.

    • @plasticweapon
      @plasticweapon Před rokem +1

      right, now explain all the other people that aren't bored by his films. you have the worst case of solipsism i've ever seen.

    • @tayderryberry8326
      @tayderryberry8326 Před rokem +4

      Lol what are you smoking buddy

    • @PreacherNny
      @PreacherNny Před rokem +5

      Lol sounds like a you problem; I've never once heard anyone else call his work boring. Even people who generally don't like it readily admit to me that it's so out-there and insane and unpredictable that they're never *bored* even if they're not fans of the storylines/philosophies/general darkness. Sounds like you just have no attention span

  • @hank7902
    @hank7902 Před rokem +5

    he should stick to talking about what he knows, which is making movies. he clearly doesnt understand the entertainment side and how to profit off movies.

    • @robertblue3795
      @robertblue3795 Před rokem +27

      he never said he was. he professes to being an artist.

    • @hank7902
      @hank7902 Před rokem +1

      @@robertblue3795 lol original title said "movie theatres are over." so you're wrong.

    • @OniLordMiki
      @OniLordMiki Před rokem +3

      @@hank7902 right because Croenenberg was the one who typed the title of this video. /s

    • @TheNoiseySpectator
      @TheNoiseySpectator Před 10 měsíci

      The Entertainment industry has been his livelihood since he was old enough to begin a career.
      Even if he does not know everything about it, many would consider him to know _enough._

  • @TxxT33
    @TxxT33 Před 5 měsíci

    I love crone but goddamn he made a couple of boring ones without doubt, Spider, stereo (his debut), Rabid (I'm sure someone will disagree but that was a borefest for me) .

  • @LuckyBastardProd
    @LuckyBastardProd Před 24 dny +1

    His films are cerebral nightmares the earlier ones 70s/80s were his best.