
"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence."
Filmography (*=screenwriter)
Features
Stereo* (1969)
Crimes of the Future* (1970)
Shivers* (1975)
Rabid* (1977)
Fast Company* (1979)
The Brood* (1979)
Scanners* (1981)
Videodrome* (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
The Fly* (1986)
Dead Ringers* (1988)
Naked Lunch* (1991)
M. Butterfly (1993)
Crash* (1996)
eXistenZ* (1999)
Spider (2002)
A History of Violence (2005)
Eastern Promises (2007)
A Dangerous Method (2011)
Cosmopolis* (2012)
Maps to the Stars (2014)
Crimes of the Future (2022)
Shorts
"Transfer" (1966)
"From the Drain" (1967)
"Camera" (2000)
"At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World" [segment, To Each His Own Cinema] (2007)
"The Nest" (2013)
"Consumed" (2014)
Television
"Jim Ritchie Sculptor" [documentary short] (1971)
"Letter from Michelangelo" [documentary short] (1971)
"Tourettes" [documentary short] (1971)
Program X - S02E? - "Secret Weapons"
"Don Valley" [documentary short] (1972)
"Fort York" [documentary short] (1972)
"Lakeshore" [documentary short] (1972)
"Winter Garden" [documentary short] (1972)
"Scarborough Bluffs" [documentary short] (1972)
"In the Dirt" [documentary short] (1972)
Peep Show - S01E? - "The Victim" (1976)
Peep Show - S01E? - "The Lie Chair" (1976)
Teleplay - S?E? - "The Italian Machine" (1976)
Friday the 13th - S01E12 - "The Faith Healer" (1988)
Scales of Justice - S?E? - "Regina vs. Horvath" (1990)
Scales of Justice - S?E? - "Regina vs. Logan" (1990)
Books
The Shape of Rage: The FIlms of David Cronenberg by Piers Handling, ed. (1983)
Cronenberg on Cronenberg by Chris Rodley, ed. (1997)
The Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg by Michael Grant (2000)
The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg by William Beard (2001)
David Cronenberg: Interviews with Serge Grunberg by Serge Grunberg (2005)
David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? by Mark Browning (2007)
The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero by Ernest Mathijs (2008)
David Cronenberg's A History of Violence by bart Beaty (2008)
The Philosophy of David Cronenberg by Simon Riches (2012)
Dead Flesh: The Presence of Norman O. Brown in the Work of David Cronenberg by Paul O' Sullivan (2013)
Celluloid Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg by Scott Colbert (2014)
Long Live the New Flesh: David Cronenberg's Somatic Dialectic From Shivers to eXistenZ by Douglas Mann (2014)
Consumed by David Cronenberg (2015)
Videodrome Scene-by-Scene by John David Ebert (2016)
Web Resources
Cinephilia & Beyond’s collection of resources on The Fly, including the film’s script, book and magazine excerpts, and interviews
1989 interview with Bette Gordon, BOMB Magazine
1992 video interview with David Letterman, Late Night with David Letterman
1992 interview with David Breskin, Rolling Stone
1997 audio interview with Elvis Mitchell, The Treatment
1997 audio interview with Beth Accomando, NPR
1999 interview with Allen White, Film Threat
2003 interview with Keith Phipps, [url]The AV Club[/url]
2007 interview with Lewis Wallace, Wired
2011 interview with Jack Giroux, Film School Rejects
2011 interview with Jenni Miller, GQ
2011 interview with Andrew O'Hehir, Salon
2012 interview with Amy Taubin, Film Comment
"Is David Cronenberg Our Most Original Director?" by J. Hoberman, Los Angeles Times (2012)
2012 interview with Jonathan Penner, LA Review of Books
2014 interview with Chris Wallace, Interview Magazine
2014 interview with Tim Lewis, The Guardian
2015 video interview at the Reykjavik International Film Festival
2015 interview with Graham Fuller, Film Comment
2015 interview with Simon Abrams, Esquire
2015 interview with David Barr Kirtley, The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy
‘David Cronenberg’s Dreams and Nightmares’, 2022 New Yorker profile by Adam Nayman
Cinephilia & Beyond's collection of links, interviews, and videos on A History of Violence
Forum Resources
Shivers
Rabid
777 The Brood
712 Scanners
248 Videodrome
21 Dead Ringers
220 Naked Lunch
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011)
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, 2014)
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022)