David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg Tries Opera

Time (Free subscription) | yesterday

The director brings his signature horror flick The Fly to the Los Angeles Opera

Cronenberg's opera The Fly poised for flight tomorrow

Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday

Woody Allen opera also opening, joining a list of marquee directors turning to the classic art form, writes Robert Everett-Green

Help Me! Heeelp Meee!

Asymptotia (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sorry. Didn't mean to cry wolf, but I always think of that great (as in camp and amusing) ending scene when I think of The Fly. The movie, anyway. (That's in the original 1958 movie version - clip at bottom of this post.) Now there's an opera! I am not joking. David Cronenberg has teamed with composer Howard Shore to create an opera. (You know the work of both of them rather well, actually, from film...

Life and Death in Londongrad: Eastern Promises Reviewed

Russia Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Viggo Mortsensen plays Nikolai, a thief-in-law (zakon) in London Just as movies about gangsters were going out of style in Russia, Eastern Promises came out in the West. Released one year ago today, David Cronenberg's crime drama about Russian...

'Fly' creators teleport film to opera stage

The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

More than two decades after creating an ick factor with "The Fly," David Cronenberg and Howard Shore are trying to make it sing.

• The Fly at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion - Red Orbit

Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: Be Afraid, Be Very, Very Afraid!

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

David Cronenberg and Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore have gotten together to reconceive The Fly for the LA Opera.

David Cronenberg interview on the Fly opera and more

Technoccult (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008

I didn’t know that David Cronenberg is directing an opera based on his 1986 remake the of the Fly. DEFAMER: Why does it seem like all your movies are in some way obsessed with the human body? CRONENBERG: People don’t pay enough attention to the body. My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we [...]

Fests and events, 9/3.

GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

Lebowski Fest happens in San Francisco on Friday and Saturday. Sean McCourt has a preview in the Bay Guardian. "Like his more critically celebrated simpatico contemporaries - Brian De Palma, Joe Dante and David Cronenberg - [John] Carpenter has...

Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him [Defamer Interviews]

Defamer (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008

When you think of opera, be honest, you start to nod off a little bit. Well, David Cronenberg is about to change all that. The director who made the more watchable of the two Crash movies has turned...

New DVD releases include 'Married Life'

Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008

When done right, film noir can be a rewarding experience for viewers. Recently, directors such as Christopher Nolan and David Cronenberg have turned to the dark side and found success.

The Season's Real Genetic Opera Is "The Fly" [Mad Opera]

io9 (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008

Sure you can see Paris Hilton getting her face slashed in forthcoming movie Repo: The Genetic Opera, but this month in David Cronenberg's fiendishly seductive opera adaptation of his 1980s gorefest... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

September is Cronenberg Month

Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008

The Fly, to be exact. The consummate anti-superhero movie is featured on stage and screen this month in our fair city. Wednesday night, the Arclight is screening The Fly as part of its AFI Directors series. Cronenberg and Howard Shore will be there for a Q&A afterward. (Yours truly will also be there, so if [...]

Fall 2008 Bluegrass Film Society Schedule

Bluegrass Film Society (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008

September 3rd: Z (France/Algeria: Costa-Gavras, 1969: 127 mins) September 10th: Videodrome (Canada: David Cronenberg, 1983: 89 mins) September 17th: Chop Shop (USA: Ramin Bahrani, 2007: 84 mins) September 24th: War Made Easy (USA: Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, 2007: 73 mins) October 1st: The Fall (USA/UK/India: Tarsem Singh, 2006: 117 mins) October 8th: Film to be announced: introduced by Gerry Adair...

An Assessment: Will Opera Fly?

SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008

Twenty-plus years ago, when Howard Shore was first hired to score David Cronenberg's dark reimagining of George Langelaan's 1957 short story "The Fly," he immediately saw the operatic potential. The Fly comes to Los Angeles as an opera in September.

Sci-fi movie “The Fly” gets opera treatment - Reuters UK (Www.OSIR.org.in)

www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - David Cronenberg’s sci-fi terror movie “The Fly” has taken on a new life in the Canadian director’s first foray into the world of opera. “The Fly”, described as a classical re-imagining of the 1986 movie about an eccentric Source: uk.reuters.com Two experiments suggest new direction for diabetes - ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) [...]