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Unmade, destroyed, locked away: With Batgirl cancelled, here are five other films we’ll never see

The US$90 million film had been shot and largely edited, but now the whole thing joins other films in being consigned to the cutting room floor.

The New Daily

Review: Rebecca Hall’s thrilling performance breathes life into the creepy ‘Resurrection’

What makes Margaret run? In the darkly arresting, committedly preposterous psychothriller “Resurrection,” she races up and down city streets, her limbs pumping like pistons, a furious spring in her every accelerated step. It’s her morning exercise regimen, but her demonic pace and half-panicked, half-determined expression suggest something else; Margaret, played…

Los Angeles Times

'Crimes of the Future' is David Cronenberg’s most transcendent movie yet

With his latest work, David Cronenberg has conjured a cinematic universe of aesthetics and ideas. But what does 'Crimes of the Future' mean?

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David Cronenberg on the evolution to 'Crimes of the Future'

A remarkable number of the films by David Cronenberg could easily be called "Crimes of the Future." In fact, he already used the title once before, on a short feature in 1970. His latest film, also called "Crimes of the Future" but unrelated to the earlier work apart from the…

Los Angeles Times

David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future Is a Gross-Out Sci-Fi Film About Bodily Autonomy

Disturbing, eerie, and strangely relevant, it's a return to form for the Canadian horror master.

Reason

‘Crimes of the Future’ review: Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg present a cold, feral vision of the future

A chillingly beautiful dare of a movie, David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” imagines a near-future much like the present, only colder and more feral.

Chicago Tribune

From The Fly to A History of Violence: our writers pick their favourite Cronenberg movies

With the release of the director’s latest body horror Crimes of the Future, Guardian writers have singled out their most-loved Cronenberg offerings

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‘Crimes of the Future’: Commentary’s sharp and so are the scalpels in the year’s freakiest film

People are cutting their mutating bodies in David Cronenberg’s unsettling but thought-provoking dystopian nightmare.

Chicago Sun-Times

Film show: David Cronenberg's dystopian sci-fi horror blends surgery and sex

Fresh from her 34th trip to the Cannes Film Festival, FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson shares her highlights from the 75th edition. One of her favourites is "Crimes of the Future", an eerie dystopian tale starring Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux as a couple who perform surgery on each…

France 24

David Cronenberg says he ‘harassed’ Viggo Mortensen into starring in Crimes of the Future

Actor had initially wanted to play a ‘cop’ in the film

The Independent UK

The next step in evolution

The maestro is teasing us, with his favourite instrument: the scalpel. Mechanical, electrified scalpels that split open the flesh -- often, the belly -- like a bulging purse being unzipped. This time, what comes out of the belly is a menagerie of grotesque organs -- organs with neither names nor…

Bangkok Post

Léa Seydoux, Once Again, Rules the Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival, yet again, belongs to Léa Seydoux. The French actress has already shared in a Palme d’Or at the festival, in 2013 for “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” which made her and Adèle Exarchopoulos the first actors to ever win Cannes’ top prize, which they shared with…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Q&A: Kristen Stewart on Body Horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

In David Cronenberg’s "Crimes of the Future," in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee. In Cronenberg’s film, a Cannes Film Festival entry opening June 3 in theaters,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Q&A: Kristen Stewart on body horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

In David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee

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Crimes of the Future: Kristen Stewart ‘really f***ing proud’ of improvised scene with Viggo Mortensen

‘That was not in the script,’ actor said

France 24

Cannes 2022: A unique perspective on a 19th-century voyage to Iceland in 'Godland'

All eyes are on the films competing for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, but our reporter Olivia Salazar-Winspear has been checking out the “Un Certain Regard” sidebar section. Icelandic director Hlynur Palmason takes us on a cinematic voyage back to 19th-century Iceland in "Godland", as a Danish…

The Guardian - UK

‘The US is completely insane’: David Cronenberg on Roe v Wade at Cannes film festival

The Canadian director made the comments at a press conference for his latest body horror film Crimes of the Future

Los Angeles Times

Movie review: Surgery, sex and superfluous human organs converge in David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’

Early on in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” a speculative horror-comedy as wildly deranged as it is beautifully controlled, we witness a live demonstration that functions as an art show, a medical procedure and a very public seduction. The nearly naked man encased in the large, mechanized sarcophagus is…

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The Independent UK

Crimes of the Future, Cannes review: S&M kitsch and an arch Kristen Stewart result in mid-tier Cronenberg

In its lesser moments, the body horror maestro’s new film is clunky and very close to self-parody

The Guardian - UK

Crimes of the Future review – Cronenberg’s post-pain, post-sex body horror sensation

As he did with 90s hit Crash, the director creates a bizarre new society of sicko sybarites where pain is the ultimate pleasure and ‘surgery is the new sex’

The Independent UK

Léa Seydoux, once again, rules the Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival, yet again, belongs to Léa Seydoux

Asharq Al-Awsat

The 21 Films in Competition at Cannes

This year's Cannes Film Festival starting Tuesday has 21 films in competition, including movies from four past winners of the top prize Palme d'Or, as well as several cult favorites. The winners of the 75th edition are to be announced at the closing ceremony on May 28, AFP said. -…

Bangkok Post

In Cannes, it's cinema as usual

After the cancellation in 2020 and a bump to the month of July in 2021 -- with smaller attendance as international travel was still interrupted -- the Cannes Film Festival returns to its usual mid-May slot, keyed up and fully prepped to show the world that it's cinema, and the…

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best David Cronenberg films

As the Canadian master of the perverse returns to Cannes with his first film in eight years, what better time to look back at his career, from Shivers to Crash

The Independent UK

Stomach-churning, creepy and surreal: David Cronenberg’s return to body horror

With Cronenberg’s latest film ‘Crimes of the Future’ about to screen in Cannes, Geoffrey Macnab looks at the director’s morbid fascination with body horror, and says it’s a real achievement if it provokes as much outrage as his bloodiest earlier works

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