List by Ronan Doyle
Cronenberg Ranked
My ranking of the films of David Cronenberg, whose work I felt obliged to rush through after finding yet another masterpiece in courtesy of Dead Ringers. I've now seen everything save his first student short film Transfer. Fair to say he's become one of my favourite directors. Reviews of most of these posted in list view, check 'em out. What are your favourites?
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Dead Ringers. Love it. Hard to watch for all the right reasons.
Have you not seen A Dangerous Method yet? I am curious to see where that is placed on your list. Interesting order for his films and it shows which type of his films you enjoy the most.
No, hoping to see it in the next few days. I'm a little apprehensive with all the negative talk about it, but then again there's not a film of his I've seen that hasn't at least been quite interesting.
I really rate A Dangerous Method. Yes, it's talky and a little like a stage play, but it's very well written, wonderfully acted and stunningly shot. Different to some of Cronenberg's more raw, ragged work, but just as good.
I enjoyed it and thought that it was s good film. I feel like it is a more personal film from him. Keira is s little over the top but that is what the performance calls for.
Interesting, I agree with most of this ordering, although I generally place Scanners and Stereo somewhere around Existenz, for their incredible vision of communication! But what about Fast Company?
and M Butterfly?
Naked Lunch?
Still need to see those 3 and A Dangerous Method.
In what demented world where heads explode and people are flies is eXistenZ a better film than A History of Violence. There must be something very wrong with you.
I also wouldn't rank Crash that high, but I'll respect there's an argument for it. eXistenZ, above AHoV? No. Just no.
I'm planning to give History of Violence another go once I've seen everything else. As it is I enjoyed it quite a bit, but it just didn't do all that much for me beyond entertain me for an hour and a half. eXistenZ I just loved, I'm a sucker for Cronenberg at the height of his dementedly weird powers, and the things it had to say about relative reality really worked for me.
Yes, do that.
eXistenZ just felt like Videodrome light. But it didn't use gaming themes the way Videodrome used TV. It felt like a film about games and VR by someone who had never used them. I admire its ending with its world within worlds idea (the film predates The Matrix), but since it had scrapped all sense of character by that point there was no reason to care about which reality was what. Left me cold.
Interesting observation that it felt like someone not familiar with games had made it. Perhaps that didn't really affect my viewing experience because I'm exactly like that myself. I suppose you are right about the characters, but for me there was enough of a kick in trying to figure out what was reality to have me and the movie part on good terms.
Still need to see Cosmopolis, but now that I've seen all other Cronenberg features I'm quite pleased with this top 5.