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A History of Violence

June 2022

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    From The Fly to A History of Violence: our writers pick their favourite Cronenberg movies

    With the release of the director’s latest body horror Crimes of the Future, Guardian writers have singled out their most-loved Cronenberg offerings

July 2009

  • David Cronenberg at the 2008 Rome international film festival

    Cronenberg to enter DeLillo's Cosmopolis

    The History of Violence and Eastern Promises director is to write and direct an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 Manhattan-set novel Cosmopolis

March 2006

  • A History of Violence

    Retail: This gripping, sombre tale by David Cronenberg is like nothing else in his long career.

October 2005

  • A History of Violence

  • Go for your guns

September 2005

  • A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE<br>VIGGO MORTENSEN
Character(s): Tom Stall
Film 'A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE' (2005)
Directed By DAVID CRONENBERG
30 September 2005
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    A History of Violence review – whisked at warp speed to Planet Cronenberg

    It looks on paper like a regular father-son drama, or a standard-issue gangster film, but there’s a Twilight Zoney offness and weirdness
  • David Cronenberg

    Quiz: Take this, Cronenberg!

    Just how well do you know the work of Canada's most disturbing export?
  • The killer inside

    David Cronenberg's films are full of images that make us recoil in horror. But what we are really trying to hide from is the whole messy business of being alive. By JG Ballard.

February 2004

  • In brief: Brad Pitt considers Infernal Affairs remake

    Plus: Jude Law contemplates Bond role, Harryhausen bemoans CGI, Cronenberg plans history of violence, and new projects for Neeson, Cage, Bellucci, Hardwicke and Ledger

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