David Cronenberg claims he doesn’t go to the movies: “I don’t find the cinema experience all that great”
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David Cronenberg has admitted that he no longer goes to the movies to watch new films as “I don’t find the cinema experience all that great.”
The director-writer-actor told Interview Magazine that he “stopped going to the cinema many years ago” as he watches “everything with subtitles” due to his hearing and that “parking is not so great in Toronto.”
“I only see movies in real theatres every once in a while, mostly at film festivals, and I’ve found that the projection isn’t always so great,” he explained, before adding: “I don’t find the cinema experience all that great. Maybe it’s because I’m older. I don’t feel that communal thing.”
Contrary to popular opinion in the film industry, Cronenberg is a fan of streaming over in-person cinema, as he pointed out the benefits of the medium by saying: “I do find that people talking about streaming can be very passionate in the way that we were passionate in the movie theatre after we saw a film. So it’s different, but I don’t think it’s worse.”
He continued: “I also don’t miss working with film. The cutting and editing was a nightmare for me. It was very restrictive. You have so much more control now. And of course, we are control freaks to a certain extent, if you’re making a film.”
The body horror director added that: “I have nostalgia for the old films, but I don’t have that Spielberg-esque need to actually shoot on film.”
Cronenberg has become a prolific filmmaker within the horror scene over the past half a century, making his directorial debut in 1969 with Stereo and most recently helming the 2024 body horror The Shrouds.
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