This week, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley chat about the virtues of the Elite Squad films, praise Puss in Boots as a film better than its marketing would suggest, and try not to lose all hope in John Carter and the live action Akira remake. Special guest Eric D. Snider joins us from…
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The Telluride Film Festival, a presentation of the National Film Preserve which takes place beginning tomorrow, Friday Sept 2 and runs through Monday Sept 5, is an unusual beast as far as film festivals go. The core film lineup is not announced until the day before the festival begins, so attendees have to commit to…
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Oh, I can't wait for this. Here's the second trailer we've seen for David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, which tells the story of Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), who both fall into a web tethered by Jung's patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley). The previous trailer was just a bit more…
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Hot on the heels of the release of a massive batch of films that will appear in the Toronto Film Festival, we've got the main lineup for the 68th Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10. We knew that George Clooney's The Ides of March would open the fest (the trailer…
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Aren't you glad you didn't look at the bootleg? Here's a proper-quality trailer for David Cronenberg's new film, A Dangerous Method, which stars Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen as Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, respectively. Check it out below. (You can also see the trailer at the film's official site.) Really, all I need to…
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Good news for David Cronenberg fans: his next film, A Dangerous Method, has been picked up for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics. The movie is an adaptation of the play The Talking Cure by Christopher Hampton, and stars Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung, Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud, and Keira Knightley as Sabina Spielrein, the…
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So what's this new David Cronenberg film The Dangerous Method all about? We know it is based on Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure, and that it concerns the early friendship and working relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and the young woman (Keira Knightley) that came between them. For…
Read MoreIn July we saw the first photos of Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender in makeup and costume as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung for David Cronenberg's new film A Dangerous Method. Turns out that during the same period some TV press was also allowed onto the set, and we've got a pair of short video…
Read MoreNO PHOTO I've been eagerly awaiting the first footage from A Dangerous Method, the new film from David Cronenberg in which Viggo Mortensen plays Sigmund Freud and Michael Fassbender appears as Carl Jung. There isn't yet any video to share, but we've got the first set photos, and I'm impressed with the work Cronenberg's team…
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Briefly: Despite the fact that he lost Christoph Waltz, I'm seriously interested in David Cronenberg's new film, which is now called A Dangerous Method. Production Weekly reports the title change for the film, which is based on Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure. Filming starts next month and will take place in Berlin, Vienna and…
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