David Cronenberg channels his own grief over wife's death in 'The Shrouds'

‘The Shrouds’ Is A Milestone For Distributor Sideshow: “We’re All Pinching Ourselves We Get To Work” With David Cronenberg – Specialty Preview

David Cronenberg is back with his latest Cannes Film Festival premiere The Shrouds, a blend of body horror, grief, comedy, sex, high-tech graveyards and international intrigue starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger (in three roles), Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt. Sideshow/Janus Films is opening the film – the first English-language foray by the distributor of Drive My Car and Flow — at three theaters: NYC’s Angelika Film Center and Film at Lincoln…

David Cronenberg's New Sci-Fi Thriller is His Most Alienating Movie Ever

Prospero PicturesDavid Cronenberg once told The New York Times Magazine that his 1986 body horror classic The Fly was not in fact a metaphor for AIDS, but a metaphor for death. “We've all got the disease — the disease of being finite. Death is the basis of all horror,” the filmmaker said.Fascination with how the human body can degrade and break down, and a fixation on mortality, define many of Cronenberg’s body-horror films. But never has that f…

For a mogul who can’t accept the end, a high-tech tomb becomes a portal in ‘The Shrouds’

Taking in a new David Cronenberg film occasionally evokes the strangeness of a beloved cat bringing a fresh kill to your door: It’s somehow unsettling and affecting, a horror yet a gift, and decidedly weird but also sad and even funny. The subjects of grief and biotechnology in the macabre Canadian’s latest offering, “The Shrouds,” are also known to call up a host of conflicting feelings. Is it any wonder, then, that in the hands of a fearlessly…

With 'The Shrouds,' David Cronenberg Confronts the Horror of His Own Grief

David Cronenberg wears a Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello shirt, pants, and tie. The two-headed lizard is a prop from his film eXistenZ (1999).For more than 40 years, you’ve been making horror movies about the human body. Shivers [1975] was about a deadly outbreak of erotomania-inducing parasites; Scanners [1981] shows telekinetic powers being used to make someone’s head explode; in The Fly [1986], a scientist accidentally merges with a house…

David Cronenberg channels his own grief over wife's death in 'The Shrouds'

TORONTO — David Cronenberg has confronted death on screen his entire career. But at 82, he’s feeling its creeping presence in his own life. “My relationship with death is getting more and more intimate the older I get. That's inevitable.

David Cronenberg channels his own grief over wife’s death in ‘The Shrouds’

TORONTO - David Cronenberg has confronted death on screen his entire career. But at 82, he’s feeling its creeping presence in his own life.