![]() ![]() The adaptation of a hit Broadway play, M. But given that film’s reliance on giant bugs – hallucinated or otherwise – let’s skip over that and get to his biggest out-of-genre leap, M. One could argue David Cronenberg’s effort to break his own mold came when he followed up his string of Shivers– Rabid– The Brood– Scanners– Videodrome– The Dead Zone– The Fly– Dead Ringers with the adaptation of William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. Or Mel Brooks trying the spoof-free Life Stinks. ![]() Or Alfred Hitchcock trying to prove his comedy chops in The Trouble with Harry. Witness Steven Spielberg attempting to take a break from fantasy and science-fiction with The Color Purple. There comes a time in many a filmmaker’s career when they seem to say to themselves: “I can do more than just that.” In honor of Cronenberg’s films, and his 80th birthday, Midwest Film Journal presents a monthlong retrospective on his work: Ew, David! Even in his less fantastical work, he rarely separates sex from violence, poking and prodding to seek potentially perilous similarities in the chemical reactions caused by those acts. Of course, such unpredictably invasive anatomical moments are just one part of Cronenberg’s aggressive tradition. For more than 50 years, David Cronenberg has dissected it - often quite literally, creating weapons made of human bone or shoving handguns into tremulous, vaginal stomach slits. (16) The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice.Directors discussing human capacity for sex and violence are a dime a dozen. (15) It's all beautifully acted, but I didn't care about Susan and John and their tremulous relationship, laden with supercilious, middlebrow significance. (14) Sara blinked back the tears of hope and happiness and fear and relief before lifting her eyes to offer him a small and tremulous smile. (13) Just remember as you hear the tremulous reporter, voice quaking in empathy, why the farmer is crying. (12) I'm plodding on with the street scene painting and it's beginning to come to life in spite of my tremulous incompetence. (11) We see her tremulous schoolgirl self auditioning for the band along with a trio of equally improbable hopefuls: a ukulele-playing nun, an upper-crust saxophonist and a male drummer ready to don a frock to dodge the draft. (10) At the bottom of the carriage step, she turned and sent Christopher a slightly tremulous smile. (9) Album opener ├ö├ç├┐Petrified Possessions├ö├ç├û is guided by a plodding piano line that's backed by a tremulous guitar adorned with tines of feedback. (8) In silhouette, Grant also looked the part, with gravity-defying, ironic quiff and long tremulous limbs. (7) Sara inclined her head, offering a tremulous smile between quick glances. (6) She meets his surprised gaze, her wide lips giving him a tremulous smile that makes his chest tighten with emotion. (5) It's a film where work, good and bad, is done by men, with women getting to play the tremulous wives or daughters. (4) His voice softens and opens up, threading a tremulous quaver through its easy melody. (3) It was in the muted laughter from dark alleys and the half caught lyrics from dance and jazz halls where women with tremulous voices sang about love and death, in such a way as to make one seem like torture, and the other almost jolly. (2) Among tremulous flora and fauna are tremandra plants, with their shaking anthers, the gelatinous tremella fungi, and treron pigeons. (1) And then he could hear a smile and a tremulous quality in her voice.
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