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Inspired by the New York underground film scene, he founded the Toronto Film Co-op with Iain Ewing and Ivan Reitman. He began frequenting film camera rental houses, learning the art of filmmaking, and made two 16mm films ( Transfer and From the Drain). A keen interest in science, especially botany and lepidopterology, led him to enter the Honours Science program at the University of Toronto in 1963, but he switched to Honours English Language and Literature later in his first year.Ĭronenberg's fascination with the film Winter Kept Us Warm (1966), by classmate David Secter, sparked his interest in film. He attended high school at Harbord Collegiate Institute and North Toronto Collegiate Institute. Ĭronenberg began writing as a child and did so constantly, mainly working in the science fiction genre. In terms of conventional horror films that frightened him, Cronenberg cited Don't Look Now. Cronenberg even wished to screen Bambi as part of a museum exhibition of his influences, but Disney refused him permission. Cronenberg went on to say that Bambi was the 'first important film' he ever saw, citing the moment when Bambi's mother died as particularly powerful. Cronenberg said he found these two Disney animated films, as well as Universal's live-action Blue Lagoon, 'terrifying' which influenced his approach to horror.

However, Cronenberg has also cited less obvious films as influences, including comedies like The Bed Sitting Room, as well as Disney cartoons such as Bambi and Dumbo. Cronenberg also read horror comics published by EC, which in contrast to the others, he described as 'scary and bizarre and violent and nasty-the ones your mother didn’t want you to have.' Įarly films that later proved influential on Cronenberg's career include standard avant-garde, horror, science fiction, and thriller films, such as Un Chien Andalou, Vampyr, War of the Worlds, Freaks, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Alphaville, Performance, and Duel. Although as an adult, Cronenberg feels superhero films are artistically limited, he maintains a fondness for Captain Marvel/ Shazam, criticizing how he feels the character had been neglected. Cronenberg also read comic books, noting his favorites were Tarzan, Little Lulu, Uncle Scrooge, Blackhawk, Plastic Man, Superman and the original Fawcett Comics version of Captain Marvel, later known as Shazam.

Ī voracious reader from an early age, Cronenberg started off enjoying science fiction magazines like The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galaxy, and Astounding, where he first encountered authors who would prove influential on his own work, including Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov, although he wouldn't encounter his primary influence, Philip K.

#KRONENBERG RICK AND MORTY FULL#

They kept the Cronenberg household full of a wide variety of books, and Cronenberg's father tried to introduce him to art films such as The Seventh Seal, although at the time, Cronenberg was more interested in western and pirate films, showing a particular affinity for those featuring Burt Lancaster. He was raised in a 'middle-class progressive Jewish family.' His father was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and his mother was born in Toronto all of his Jewish grandparents were from Lithuania.

5.2 Academy of Canadian Cinema and Televisionīorn in Toronto, Ontario, Cronenberg is the son of Esther ( née Sumberg), a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a writer and editor.

He competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival with Cosmopolis. In the 2000s and 2010s, Cronenberg collaborated on several films with Viggo Mortensen, including A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), and A Dangerous Method (2011).

His films have won numerous awards, including, for Crash, the Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, a unique award that is distinct from the Jury Prize as it is not given annually, but only at the request of the official jury, who in this case gave the award 'for originality, for daring, and for audacity'. The Village Voice called him 'the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world'. Ĭronenberg's films have polarized critics and audiences alike he has earned critical acclaim and has sparked controversy for his depictions of gore and violence. Cronenberg is best known for exploring these themes through sci-fi horror films such as Shivers (1975), Videodrome (1983), and The Fly (1986), though he has also worked in multiple genres throughout his career. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infection, technology, and the intertwining of the psychological with the physical.

David Paul Cronenberg CC OOnt (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor.

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