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Following the screening, please stay for a brief Q&A with Dr. Glen O. Gabbard, author and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine.
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A note from HCAS
board member
Jolene McMaster
 My Adopted Film
Each of the HCAS board members was asked to pick one festival film to adopt. Being a follower of Cronenberg's work, I was delighted to get this opportunity to not only moderate the Q&A, but to also urge you to attend this festival selection which opens in Houston theaters later this year. See if first here. One screening only.
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DAVID CRONENBERG
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My partner/director Rob McKinnon and I equally enjoy the experience of viewing David Cronenberg's movies and have seen all the features that he has directed since 1981, and those are: Eastern Promises (2007) A History of Violence (2005) Spider(2002) eXtistenZ(1999) Crash (1996) M. Butterfly (1993) Naked Lunch (1991) Dead Ringers (1988) The Fly(1986) The Dead Zone(1983) Videodrome(1983) Scanners(1981). My favorites are SCANNERS, THE DEAD ZONE, THE FLY, DEAD RINGERS, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, and any others with Viggo Mortensen. (He is fun to watch don't you think?) Hopefully you'll want to see more of David Cronenberg's work post-festival. |
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David Cronenberg's
A DANGEROUS METHOD
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Edwards Greenway Palace 24
3839 Weslayan, Houston 77027
6:45 PM
Q&A after the film with Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.,
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Baylor College of Medicine, and author of
Psychiatry and the Cinema
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Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender,
Keira Knightley, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon
Director: David Cronenberg
Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton
Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky
Editor: Ronald Sanders
Composer: Howard Shore
Production Designer: James McAteer
Costume Designer: Denise Cronenberg
Hair & Make-Up Designer: Stephen Dupuis
Rated: R
Running time: 93 minutes
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Director David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen reunite, following their collaborations on A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, for this striking period drama set in Vienna in the early 1900s. Beneath the dignified period veneer, the characters' bodies, as in all Cronenberg films, are threatening to erupt under their mind's repressive control. The protagonists are Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and his mentor, Sigmund Freud (Mortensen). The two psychoanalysts are both
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spellbound and attracted by a beautiful and very disturbed Russian patient, Sabine Spielrein (Keira Knightley). Influenced by the radical psychoanalyst Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel) and Sabine's own remarkable intellect, Jung questions the limitations of Dr. Freud's approach, and begins to develop a radically different analytic practice.
The sharp and witty dialogue comes courtesy of Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons), adapted from his own play, "The Talking Cure," itself based on John Kerr's "A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein." David Cronenberg was first acclaimed for his body-horror films, including The Brood (1979) and Videodrome (1983), but he is now working in a more classical vein, while still exploring the dark undercurrents behind the veil of normalcy.
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, writes: Despite having to cover stages in the trio's relationships spread over many years, Hampton's screenplay utterly coheres and never feels episodic. The dialogue is constantly confronting, articulate and stimulating, the intellectual exchanges piercing at times. Cronenberg's direction is at one with the writer's diamond-hard rigor; cinematographer Peter Suschitzky provides visuals of a pristine purity augmented by the immaculate fin de l'epoch settings, while the editing has a bracing sharpness that can only be compared to Kubrick's.
Recently, the British Film Institute bestowed its highest honor, the BFI Fellowship, on David Cronenberg and Ralph Fiennes. The original and provocative Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is internationally renowned for films exploring the darker impulses and inner lives of his characters. His distinctive films have gone beyond the science-fiction genre and have had a powerful and enduring influence on contemporary filmmakers. Cinema Arts Festival is proud to present the latest films from both. British actor turned director Ralph Fiennes' directing debut, CORIOLANUS, screens Nov. 11, at 6:50 PM, at Edwards Greenway Palace 24. You'll want to see both.
Festival Artistic Director Richard Herskowitz had this to say about Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut CORIOLANUS: "This is a Shakespearian action film. Fiennes is great in it, Gerard Butler too, but it's Vanessa Redgrave who blew me away with her performance when I caught this in Toronto."
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Viggo Mortensen returns