
Naked Lunch
SERIES
David Cronenberg
January 21February 12, 2012
From his early horror movies—with their exploding heads, mutating sex organs, rampaging parasites, and scientists turning into insects—to his latest, A Dangerous Method, a deceptively classical period film about Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and the birth of psychoanalysis, David Cronenberg has consistently dramatized the struggle between the aspirations of the mind and the messy realities of the flesh. “I think of human beings as a strange mixture of the physical and the non-physical, and both of these things have their say at every moment we’re alive,” says Cronenberg. “My films are some kind of strange metaphysical passion play.” Moving deftly between genre and arthouse filmmaking, between original screenplays and literary adaptations, Cronenberg’s work is thematically consistent and marked by a rigorous intelligence, a keen sense of humor, and a fearless engagement with the nature of human existence. He has been exploring the most primal themes since the beginning of his career, and continues to probe them with growing maturity and depth.

A Conversation with David Cronenberg
Saturday, January 21, 2:00 p.m.

A History of Violence
Saturday, January 21, 5:00 p.m.

Dead Ringers
Saturday, January 21, 7:30 p.m.

Stereo and Crimes of the Future
Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m.

Videodrome
Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m.

They Came from Within (a.k.a. Shivers)
Saturday, January 28, 2:30 p.m.

Rabid
Saturday, January 28, 5:00 p.m.

Fast Company
Sunday, January 29, 1:00 p.m.

The Brood
Sunday, January 29, 3:00 p.m.

Scanners
Sunday, January 29, 5:30 p.m.

The Fly
Friday, February 3, 7:30 p.m.

The Fly
Saturday, February 4, 3:00 p.m.

Crash
Saturday, February 4, 6:00 p.m.

Naked Lunch
Sunday, February 5, 3:00 p.m.

M. Butterfly
Sunday, February 5, 6:00 p.m.

The Dead Zone
Saturday, February 11, 3:00 p.m.

eXistenZ
Saturday, February 11, 6:00 p.m.

Spider
Sunday, February 12, 3:00 p.m.

Eastern Promises
Sunday, February 12, 6:00 p.m.