SLIDESHOW: A preview tour of the new David Cronenberg Exhibit at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
SLIDESHOW: A preview tour of the new David Cronenberg Exhibit at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
For over three decades, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has disturbed and delighted audiences with his uncanny knack for exploring (and exploiting) our most unsettling fears. Starting November 1, Torontonians can take a terrifying peek inside the mind that gave us The Fly, Dead Ringers and Videodrome. Cronenberg: Evolution, the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s first large-scale touring exhibit, tracks Cronenberg’s development from his initial big-budget flick, 1981 science-fiction film Scanners, to last year’s Don DeLillo adaptation, Cosmopolis. Divided chronologically into three sections, the exhibition includes over 60 props, costumes and artifacts (many of them salvaged from Cronenberg’s house and garage), including the hive-like telepod from The Fly and the six-foot-tall humanoid Mugwump from Naked Lunch. The exhibit is one of TIFF’s biggest, most ambitious and certainly most grotesque. Here, 15 photos from the delightfully chilling retrospective.
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- Cronenberg: Evolution opens on November 1, 2013
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- The exhibition is divided into three sections, which chronologically track Cronenberg’s development as a filmmaker
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- The costumes worn by Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender in Cronenberg’s 2011 period piece, <em>A Dangerous Method</em>
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- Special effects casts by Stephan Dupuis for 2012 drama <em>Cosmopolis</em> starring Robert Pattinson
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- The terrifying television from 1983 cult classic, <em>Videodrome</em>
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- The telepod from 1986’s <em>The Fly,</em> starring Jeff Goldblum as the scientist who mutates into a winged insect
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- Along with props, the exhibit also includes photos and other memorabilia
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- One of the creepiest artifacts in the exhibit: a six-foot-tall Mugwump, the humanoid creature from Cronenberg’s 1991 adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel, <em>Naked Lunch</em>
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- The typewriter beetle from <em>Naked Lunch</em>
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- The exhibit includes rare and unseen video clips from Cronenberg’s extensive oeuvre
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- The tattoo kit from 2007 British crime flick <em>Eastern Promises</em>
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- The elaborate silk costume worn by John Lone in 1993 drama <em>M. Butterfly</em>
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- Filmmaker David Cronenberg at the exhibit’s media preview
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Cronenberg: Evolution, November 1-January 19, TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., 416-599-8433, tiff.net/cronenberg
 our most unsettling fears. Starting November 1, Torontonians can take a terrifying peek inside the mind that gave us The Fly, Dead Ringers and Videodrome. Cronenberg: Evolution, the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s first large-scale touring exhibit, tracks Cronenberg’s development from his initial big-budget flick, 1981 science-fiction film Scanners, to last year’s Don DeLillo adaptation, Cosmopolis. Divided chronologically into three sections, the exhibition includes over 60 props, costumes and artifacts (many of them salvaged from Cronenberg’s house and garage), including the hive-like telepod from The Fly and the six-foot-tall humanoid Mugwump from Naked Lunch. The exhibit is one of TIFF’s biggest, most ambitious and certainly most grotesque. Here, 15 photos from the delightfully chilling retrospective.
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