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Videodrome (1983)

Written by

David CronenbergStarringJames Woods
Deborah Harry

Videodrome (1983)

Written by

David CronenbergStarringJames Woods
Deborah Harry

Videodrome (1983)

Written by

David CronenbergStarringJames Woods
Deborah Harry

Since I’ve already seen Videodrome and Cosmopolis, I thought I’d start with this. 

A Film I watched a while ago and will now return to for an analysis on postmodernism. It’s one of less obvious Cronenberg features that will employ the concepts I’m looking for, however, I think there may be something here about detachment, crime and violence that could be helpful to my essay. 

And onto A Dangerous Method tomorrow I think!

A History of Violence (2005)

Dir. David Cronenberg
Starring: Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello 

This was a pleasant surprise! I think this might be too comedic to feature in an essay based on David Lynch, however I thought I’d blog about it instead seen as it’s such an effective film on pastiche, parody and nostalgia. 

Again, there is the common reminiscence of the 1950s, the teenybopper characters and the reinvention of existing materials e.g. the café escape scene. Also the self-reflexivity in the film, constantly referring to itself. 

Recommended, one of the lighter postmodern films. Now onto to David Cronenberg!

Happy Imitating! 

Back To the Future (1985)

Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J. Fox and Christopher Loyd 

A teenager is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.

Eraserhead (1977)

Dir. David Lynch
Starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart and Allen Joseph 

Another Lynch film to consider (if you can bare it). 

Eraserhead (1977)

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Blue Velvet (1986)

Dir. David Lynch
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan and Dennis Hopper 

Postmodern film cont. I will now move onto David Lynch, whom I have decided to be the focus of my upcoming essay. I’m inspired by the 1950s placement in the film, and the stark contrasts between the neighboring estates red-neck estates. Also the concepts of irony, pastiche, nostalgia, imitation and symbolism, which I will closely follow. 

Strange film I’ve heard, but now I understand it more, I think it should be well acclaimed to watch. 

Blue Velvet (1986)

After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.

Dir. David Lynch
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan and Dennis Hopper