Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983): ICA Cinema, 7pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the Celluloid on Sunday strand at the ICA Cinema.
Chicago Reader review:
This
1983 shocker by David Cronenberg comes about as close to abandoning a
narrative format as a commercial film possibly can: James Woods plays
the programmer of a sleazy Toronto cable channel who stumbles across a
mysterious pirate emission—a porno show called “Videodrome” that
features hideous S and M fantasies performed with appalling realism.
Knowing a ratings winner when he sees one, Woods sets out to find the
producer and quickly becomes involved with a kinky talk-show hostess
(Deborah Harry), expanding rubber TV sets, a bizarre religious cult,
and—almost incidentally—a plot to take over the world. Never coherent
and frequently pretentious, the film remains an audacious attempt to
place obsessive personal images before a popular audience—a kind of
Kenneth Anger version of Star Wars.
Dave KehrHere (and above) is the trailer.
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