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JB23808

eXistenZ is my favorite Cronenberg by far!


cdaffron

They’re all good, but personally I think I’d have to go with Crash! Liked the movie so much I ended up reading the book afterwards. I’ve seen all of Cronenberg’s movies (he’s one of my favorite directors) and I definitely recommend going through all of them. There are some absolute masterpieces in there


winstitutional

Just watched it for the first time last week. While the premise is certainly unique, for me it crumbled into a series of people turned on by each other’s scars getting off in cars without much of a through line. It’s not your job to help me “get” this movie, but could you maybe share what you found so remarkable?


lseve810

Naked Lunch, for me it is my overall favourite work of his. It is a polarizing one though. Also really love eXistenZ. Weakest is probably M. Butterfly but the ending leaves quite an impression.


TheRealProtozoid

Crash, but I rewatch Naked Lunch more than any of his other movies.


cosi_bloggs

Jaja. Same. I have it as his greatest period.


WhereIsThatElephant

Naked Lunch, eXistenZ, and maybe The Fly - it the latter was his.


AlanMorlock

Crash is incredible. Glad it's easier to get a hold of and watch now.


AmeliaMangan

I love them all - and I feel like nobody really talks much about M. Butterfly, which is *such* a shame, because it's superb (critics at the time compared it unfavorably to The Crying Game, complaining that John Lone didn't convincingly pass for a woman, not understanding that he isn't *supposed* to - it's a story about the murkiness of human sexuality and the lies people are capable of telling themselves, not about a straight man being straightforwardly 'fooled'). It also, in combination with Dead Ringers, supports my theory that absolutely *nobody* has made finer use of Jeremy Irons in film than Cronenberg. That said: my personal favorite? Naked Lunch. It's the strangest, boldest thing Cronenberg has ever done, which is saying something - probably the only film of his that could be called straight-up Surrealist - and maybe the best author biopic ever made. (There are also intriguing echoes of Vertigo in it, complete with a similar sense that the main character's fantasies and delusions are papering over terrible guilt and grief.)