I was present for this screening and Q&A, and the truth is getting stretched. Cronenberg spoke of an interest in the novelistic format of streaming series, which he has in the past, and that he has a few different ideas he’s exploring. He certainly never said he’s in pre-production in so many words, as was initially reported by World of Reel.
In better news, the Crash restoration looks great. Blu-rays were implied but no label was mentioned. Arrow is more plausible than Criterion, I would wager.
If Arrow is involved I dearly hope that they approach the Daily Mail to ask for permission to reproduce all of their articles in the inevitable booklet then! Maybe we could get a commemorative reprinting of the "Ban This Sick Car Crash Sex Film" edition!
At the very least German label Turbine, who’ve been involved with the restoration since the beginning, are releasing it on BD/UHD, with new interviews, the CC commentary & an HDR grade approved by Cronenberg & Suschitzky.
UPDATE: seems they couldn’t get the commentary after all.
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Hi, can you please tell the name of the track of the Scanners Original Motion Picture Soundtrack that was used for the iconic head explosion scene?
A1 Main Title 1:37
A2 Vale Captured 4:09
A3 Ephemerol 1:21
A4 The Ripe Program 2:52
A5 The Injection 2:50
A6 Dirge for the Assassins 2:38
A7 Vale's Lonely Walk 1:03
A8 The Dart 1:34
I trust you find this satisfactory and i keenly await your reply.
Not sure about that list but this soundtrack of Howard Shore's score splits the "Explosive Demonstration" scene into three parts. The screeching twittering aftermath that kicks off part three is probably the most memorable music cue of that scene, happening just after the event has occurred and Revok is being bundled out of the lecture theatre.
Really strange to hear that out of context. I've seen that movie, and scene, many times but wouldn't have been able to recall the score. This is no doubt because the scene is so intense it engrosses the viewer rather than lets one sit back and appreciate the various elements at play. That makes for a pretty interesting demonstration (on multiple levels).
It is interesting to hear it apart from the 'scanner whine' effect (and rhythmic thumping) that accompanies the scene and is higher in the mix during the event itself, until the score comes back in the aftermath. It may be that part of Shore's score in that second part was mixed down to emphasise the sound effects more there.
brundlefly wrote: Thu May 19, 2022 7:23 pm
Has me hoping there's an encounter with Nardwuar in his future.
Nardwuar: "David Cronenberg, welcome to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada! And right off the bat, I have a gift for you! It's a Fiji..." [holds out microphone]
" 'When I wrote this in 1998, it was very theoretical [...]' the director said, insisting that he hadn’t changed a word of his original draft when production resources finally came together last year."
"The movie [...] includes meme-worthy lines like 'surgery is the new sex,' an observation Cronenberg has said was inspired by the amount of surgeries one can watch on YouTube."
:-k
(Edited to add some omitted text to the first quotation. What had at first seemed to me like a blatant contradiction must be a simpler story: he hadn't changed the script between 1998 and 2021, but he must have done a 2021 revision that resulted in the addition of material inspired by YouTube, which had been created in the interim. So: nothing to see here. Apologies.)
Considering that his novel Consumed had a whole section relating to the phenomenon of 'unboxing' videos on YouTube, perhaps it would be safer to say that 'surgery is the new unboxing'!
Completing the availability of his entire 22 feature film filmography on Blu-ray.
I wonder if there's a director who also has their entire output on Blu-ray with more films than Cronenberg? John Carpenter comes to 21 if you count his TV movies.
