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...emergence of Canada as an important national cinema. This country of 33 million has left less of an artistic footprint than, say, Hong Kong (6 million population) in the 80s or Sweden (4 million) in the Ingmar Bergman years. The provinces have produced a few notable directors - David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan from Ontario, Denys Arcand from Quebec, Guy Maddin from Manitoba - but their careers date back to the 60s, 70s or 80s. Other Canadians, like directors Norman Jewison and Paul Haggis and a slew of comedy stars, have packed their bags and emigrated to the dominant movie culture...
...EASTERN PROMISES The new melodrama from David Cronenberg, the Canadian director with three decades of weird thrills on his résumé, has the vibe of his last one, A History of Violence. Viggo Mortenson is again a charismatic mystery man involved with organized crime. This time, in a script by Steve Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), it's the Russian mob in London. Naomi Watts plays the innocent trapped in a toxic...
...World War II boyhood in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai - and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's 1987 feel-good movie of that name, starring Christian Bale. But Ballard is also famous for a more sinister novel, Crash, about car-wreck aficionados in outer London, which David Cronenberg made into that notoriously creepy 1996 film, set in Los Angeles. Even typical Ballard tales, like Cocaine Nights (1996) or Super-Cannes (2000), are not exactly walks in the high-tech research park. Those two hot-selling thrillers were set in, respectively, a Spanish resort community and a leafy French office...
...exhausting," Bello, 38, says of that scene, shot over a day and a half and largely improvised. "The next day, my entire body was filled with bruises. The inside of Viggo's mouth was bitten, and his arm was blown up." The director, David Cronenberg, laughed when he saw them. "He said he felt good that we had 'taken one for the team...
...Cronenberg repeatedly stresses that he is not interested in horrific imagery for its own sake; looking back, Cronenberg insists that “obviously, anybody who has seen my movies, including those early movies, knows that I was always after bigger game than that.” And luckily for his audiences, Cronenberg is now skilled enough to balance his two strains in a manner that makes him one of the world’s most unique and interesting hunters...