Cronenblogging

Damn, does Cronenberg ever give good intereviews. This is a terrific overview of his career, including all the dirt on Canadian independent cinema, The National Film Board of Canada and exploding heads. All very patriotic.

"People can get confused. They can think that they're supposed to be solemn, because it's a Cronenberg movie, and they think that's a serious thing. But I've never made a movie that's not funny. They're all funny.

Maybe The Brood isn't very funny. I was in a really bad mood when I made it. It's about the only one that doesn't have genuine laughs in it.

David Cronenberg, laff riot.

In other Cronenberg news, it looks like the filmmaker is moving even further away from the horror genre in his next batch of projects, though if anyone could take a comedy about Hollywood excess and introduce parasitic phaluses (phalli?) to the story, it would be him.

"Have you gone to http://www.redcars.it? My script is now a book, a beautiful coffee table book for fans of Formula One or of my work or whatever. It's expensive, but it's really beautiful and the printing is exquisite. I would be happy if some producer said, `Yes, I want to make this movie,' but so far, no one has. So unless that happens, it's not going to be a movie. At least it's a book."

Unfortunately, there is no mention of his dream project; a musical comedy about Canadian politics.