Cronenberg

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luka said:
i watched one of his the other day, scanners, a bit silly. not on the level of his best stuff.
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Thought I'd seen this one but watched it the other night and realised I'd only ever seen the famous exploding head scene and bits and pieces on TV. It's pretty good, imo. I liked that it was halfway been a dry 70s conspiracy thriller and something a bit more glossy and 80s. That icy score's great and some of the shots and locations are pretty nice.

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william_kent

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Thought I'd seen this one but watched it the other night and realised I'd only ever seen the famous exploding head scene and bits and pieces on TV. It's pretty good, imo. I liked that it was halfway been a dry 70s conspiracy thriller and something a bit more glossy and 80s. That icy score's great and some of the shots and locations are pretty nice.

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early Cronenberg classic - you've got to love the trepindation cardboard cutout covering the third eye?

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Julie Felix - Brain Blood Volume

Julie Felix was an American folk singer who wound up living in the UK in the mid 1960s. She fell in with the likes of Donovan and was one fo the first folk singers to experiment with LSD, regularly visiting the World Psychedelic Center in west London. She was also friends with Joey Mellen. who co-wrote this really peculair piece of music. Mellen was keen on the idea of trepanation as a route to permanent enlightment, and beleived that drilling a hole in the head aided blood brain volume . . . which is the name of this track on Felix's 1966 Fontana LP
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BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME!
 
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linebaugh

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I think stuff like eXistenZ, The Fly and Naked Lunch would be fine stoned but I can picture drifting off with Scanners, Eastern Promises and some of the others on. Everything he does is somewhat subdued and hypnotic as it is so if it's also as boring as Eastern Promises and there's nothing grabbing you visually then it's lights out.
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I just watched scanners very stoned and feel the opposite
 
linebaugh

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Reading people's responses to that film im actually left confused. Its 90 minutes and action happens in every scene- shoot outs, explosions, espionage, super powers. Not really sure how those people are feeling that it drags
 
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linebaugh said:
I just watched scanners very stoned and feel the opposite
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I rewatched Eastern Promises a while back and liked it. I liked Scanners too. I do think he has a cold, hypnotic touch though. That's why he's attracted to writers like DeLillo and Ballard. They share a distance.
 
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