Features
Monday, January 9 2012
The Best DVDs of 2011
With the continuing rise of Blu-ray, this year sees a lot of repeat entries. Just because they're here again, however, doesn't mean they're any less special.
Wednesday, November 23 2011
Jung and the Restless: On Michael Fassbender's Role as Carl Jung in 'A Dangerous Method'
PopMatters has been counting down the days until David Cronenberg's newest film, A Dangerous Method hits theaters. Today it arrives in limited release and in the last piece of this cinematic puzzle, actor Michael Fassbender, talks to Christopher Sweetapple for the grand finalé.
Tuesday, November 22 2011
Adapting the Unconscious: Christopher Hampton's Screenplay of 'A Dangerous Method'
Lauded screenwriter Christopher Hampton speaks with David Lee Dallas III about adapting his own stage play.
Monday, November 21 2011
The Hunter and The Hunted: Keira Knightley Explores Duality in 'A Dangerous Method'
A Dangerous Method's Best Actress hopeful Keira Knightley speaks with PopMatters about playing the unsung feminist heroine of psychoanalysis, Sabina Spielrein, for David Cronenberg.
Friday, November 18 2011
Revelations and Resurrections: David Cronenberg on 'A Dangerous Method'
On the second day of our five-part interview series on A Dangerous Method, we talk with director David Cronenberg about Freud and Jung as heroes, the horrors of World War One and the reality of hysteria, among many other interesting things.
Reviews
Wednesday, November 23 2011
'A Dangerous Method': Like an Erotic Thriller
David Cronenberg strips down the story, like an erotic thriller rendered with clinical minimalism, a chamber piece with antsy currents.
Monday, February 14 2011
'Videodrome': The First 'Transnational Media as Enemy' Film
Videodrome appears to have predicted the rise of the web, social networking, and the app-driven corporatized internet of the 2010s.
Friday, September 14 2007
Eastern Promises
Eastern Promises crosses up and recombines stories of parents and children, even violence and history.
Wednesday, November 16 2005
The Fly (Collector's Edition) / The Fly II (Special Edition) (1986/1989)
Timeless terror needs more than goop and glop. Only one Fly film even tried to get it right.
Friday, September 23 2005
A History of Violence (2005)
This slippage between myth and realism, or maybe expectation and consummation, is precisely the genius of A History of Violence.
Blogs
Monday, October 10 2011
'A Dangerous Method' Trailer (David Cronenberg, 2011)
Adapted for the screen by Christopher Hampton from his own 2002 play The Talking Cure, David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method immerses the viewer in early…
Friday, September 23 2011
Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'A Dangerous Method'
David Cronenberg's latest is a chilly study of the creative and competitive triangle between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), and the lesser-known Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightly) in the early years of the 20th century.
Friday, August 12 2011
100 Essential Directors - David Cronenberg
100 Essential Directors celebrates directors of distinct vision, who have honed their respective crafts, who have brought something new and exciting to the medium, and who continue to push the boundaries of the form.
Tuesday, October 19 2010
Who Are the Next Horror Movie Maestros?
Perhaps it's too soon in the career arc to write off some of these wannabes as less than meaningful maestros. As we wait, however, the void continues to grow...and grow...
Sunday, May 17 2009
Fast Company (1979): Blu-ray
Until recently, David Cronenberg was known only as the king of biological horror. His brutal looks at life and the physiological foundations of fear made…
News
Monday, September 17 2007
Viggo Mortensen, director Cronenberg reunite for gangster movie
Viggo Mortensen was busted the other day for smoking at the Ritz-Carlton, one of the city's fine hostelries. "It could be God, and he couldn't…
