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Interview with David Cronenberg on CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

What is Crimes of The Future about? In 1966 I saw a Danish movie called Sultwhich means hunger in Danish, and it was based on a famous Danish novel by Knut Hamsun, which was directed by Henning Carlsen. In that movie a poet, a sort of a broken, unrecognized poet who wanders the streets and has adventures and tries to create himself as a legitimate poet, a literary force. At one point he’s on a bridge and he’s scribbling something in a pad that he carries with him, and you have a close up of it and it says “crimes of the future,” and that really struck me. I thought I want to read that poem. Of course, he never writes it, but later I thought, well now that I’m starting to become a filmmaker I think I would like to see the movie Crimes of the Future, and so in 1970 I made an underground film, very low budget to say the least, called Crimes of the got written title really provoked me, and I think that 1970 low-budget, sort of underground film didn’t ever really satisfy all of the things t

Ep. 43 of War Machine vs. War Horse: Tusk (The Fly vs. Splice)

On this episode, the three of us have gathered to say WalrusYes to TUSK, about a man who has the simple dream of wanting to turn another man into a walrus. This inspires a look back at other mishaps in the history of man becoming more than human with 1986’s THE FLY and the 2009 film, SPLICE.  We also discuss Jeff Goldblum's hair and the exploding interest in podcasts about men's hair on film.  So before you race off and start the hashtag  WarmachinehorseYes, check out this episode. You may find our podcast just as terrifying.

Episode 57 of Pop Culture Case Study - A History of Violence and Identity

In this episode, Dave and Britt disagree strongly on the qualities (or lack thereof in her opinion) of A History of Violence.  During Fangirl Fixation, Britt gets distracted and talks about everything from Viggo Mortensen's various endowments to her terrifying crush on Rutger Hauer.  Join us as we talk about the movie and Identity! Listen! Show Notes Fangirl Fixation: 0:04:30 Identity:0:20:55 A History of Violence: 0:35:59 Rate and Review on iTunes! Visit our website!