Cinematheque at the Chazen - 3 from Cronenberg
Videodrome | Canada | 1983 | 35mm | 90 min. Director: David Cronenberg
Event Details
Date
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Time
7 p.m.
Location
Description
Cast: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits
Looking for new shows, slick and sleazy cable TV programmer Max Wren (Woods) discovers a torture-porn show called Videodrome broadcast on pirated signals. While he slowly loses his grip on reality, Max tries to track down the show’s creators; a hallucinatory odyssey that leads him to the discovery of “the new flesh”. One of the key films of the 1980s, director Cronenberg’s spellbinding riff on the mass medium of television is truly one-of-a-kind.
Looking for new shows, slick and sleazy cable TV programmer Max Wren (Woods) discovers a torture-porn show called Videodrome broadcast on pirated signals. While he slowly loses his grip on reality, Max tries to track down the show’s creators; a hallucinatory odyssey that leads him to the discovery of “the new flesh”. One of the key films of the 1980s, director Cronenberg’s spellbinding riff on the mass medium of television is truly one-of-a-kind.
Cost
Free
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