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Eventually stars burn out.
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Maps to the Stars
2014 Directed by David Cronenberg
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Julianne Moore Mia Wasikowska John Cusack Evan Bird Robert Pattinson Olivia Williams Sarah Gadon Kiara Glasco Dawn Greenhalgh Jonathan Watton Carrie Fisher Jennifer Gibson Gord Rand Justin Kelly Niamh Wilson Clara Pasieka Emilia McCarthy Allegra Fulton Domenic Ricci Jayne Heitmeyer Sean Robertson Ari Cohen Joe Pingue Christian Lloyd Donald Burda Amanda Brugel Alden Adair David Amito Dan Lett Show All…
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明星豪宅地图, 寂寞星图, 寂寞星圖, 星光地图, 明星地图, Mapas para as Estrelas, Звездная карта, Звёздная карта, 맵 투 더 스타, Mapa a las Estrellas
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The next David Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson film will be about Pattinson slowly turning into a limousine. It will be the third and final film in their Limousine Trilogy.
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It took two viewings and a two hour discussion to get there, but I'm starting to come around on this movie. It's essentially the incestuous offspring of VIDEODROME and THE BROOD; all child abuse, crackpot therapists, and show business as a sexually transmitted disease. Some have complained that its Hollywood satire feels a little hackneyed -- and they're not wrong. Ultimately, though, that vague sense of staleness fits within MAPS TO THE STARS' suggestion that Hollywood is defined by its complete and utter lack of imagination. There are no new ideas here. The movie Benji is making is a sequel; the movie Havana wants to make is a new version of a film her mother made fifty years ago. In…
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olivia williams is one of the all-time great movie smokers & pairing her with insincere vaping cusack is so genius its ok that this ends with a welcome-to-my-geocities-page c.g. fire when even the lamest 80s corman cheapie could afford to put a dude in a burnsuit
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One of Cronenberg's most disturbing movie to me. Three children die (one asphyxiated on-screen), a dog is murdered, someone is brutally beaten till death, there's several mentions of child drug use, and incest going on with just about everyone. Even the dialogue is extremely harsh in this movie. A lot of it is disturbing because of its realism as well. This movie doesn't have body horror, but it is absolutely mental.
The script is so layered and nuanced. At it's core it's an antifilm with uncomfortably honest observations about Hollywood culture, full of symbolism and social commentary. Then hidden within the messages about nepotism in the industry, aging, and more, is the mythological movie of incestuous love that Agatha wanted…
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"Mother-daughter incest is so 80's overkill."
Satire of Hollywood nepotism which takes Cronenberg's signature Freudian sexual politics and turns it into a message about how the film industry is in love with itself.
Julianne Moore has unresolved sexual desires for her mother (Electra complex). She hires Mia Wasikowska because she reminds her of her mother (both were injured in fires, fatally in her mother's case). She tries to get hired in a remake of one of her mother's movies in the role of her mother. Mia Wasikowska tries repeatedly to marry her brother before learning that her parents are also brother and sister. Everyone has too much money ("I can't believe I just spent eighteen thousand dollars!"), takes too many…
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The idea of Hollywood as a vast Gothic Mansion haunted perpetually by itself is not a new one, but seldom as spot-on and consistently entertaining as in 'Maps To The Stars'. This is Cronenberg at his loosest and most fluidly comedic since maybe 'Shivers'? This is the most Bruce Wagnerian of any of his deals and my favorite of his works, probably including Wild Palms and I really dig Wild Palms. John Cusack deserves some sort of award for therapy-by-negative-example but the entirety of the cast is way excellent. What appears like it might be a sprawling tapestry at first ends up being way seriously Flowers In The Attic in the best and most possible manner. The only downside of…
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Action!: The Many Bodies Of One David Cronenberg
Well, damn.... that was miserable. Seriously, if this film in any way serves as Cronenberg's own sentiment towards the industry I get why he pretty much quit. Pretty much picture a much depressing version of an Altman movie or Magnolia aand you got yourself an idea of this film - a bleak outlook into the unstable minds that often entertain us on the screen, and those seeking to make it into.
In terms of direction and writing, this in many feels like a thematic sequel to Cosmopolis, and I don't mean it because Robert Pattinson is a limo chauffeur, though that was pretty interesting. Many of the editing and sometimes even the…
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Before we talk about David Cronenberg and genre, we first have to accept that he probably never saw himself as 'a horror director', even if that's how it looked to the outside world. He began directing horror movies because a producer saw his short films and thought he would be a good fit for the genre. And he was - it allowed him to explore his themes of disease, transformation and identity in a more direct and transgressive way than other genres would have at the time.
But before his career's second decade was out he was making the more genre-ambiguous Dead Ringers, and he's currently in the middle of a run of movies where he tackles genres he's never…