Spider

Starring: Miranda Richardson, Ralph Fiennes Director: David Cronenberg Original UK Premiere: 2003 Dvd Release: 14th July, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English

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Spider is a 2001 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. Spider is an exploration of the mind of a schizophrenic & the story is told through the eyes of a son whose father murdered his mother & replaced her with a prostitute. Gradually, it is revealed that memory & reality can be pliable, unstable concepts & that events might not have unfolded as first appeared. Producers. David Cronenberg, Samuel Hadida & Catherine Bailey. Executive Producers. Luc Roeg, Charles Finch, Martin Katz, Jane Barclay, Sharon Harel, Hannah Leader, Zygi Kamasa, Simon Franks & Victor Hadida. Director of Photography. Peter Suschitzky.

Internal madness is hypnotically externalized in David Cronenbergs Spider, a disturbing portrait of schizophrenia. Adapted by Patrick McGrath from his celebrated novel, this no-frills production begins when Spider Cleg returns to his childhood neighbourhood in Londons dreary East End, where a traumatic event from his past percolates to the surface of his still-erratic consciousness.

Released from a mental institution & left to fend for himself, he pursues elusive memories while staying in a halfway house run by a stern matron , unable to distinguish between past, present, & psychological fabrication. The distorting influence of Spiders mind is directly reflected in Cronenbergs cunning visual strategy, presenting a shifting reality thats deliberately untrustworthy, until the veracity of nearly every scene is called into question. With an impressive dual-role performance by Miranda Richardson, Spider falls prey to its own lugubrious rhythms, but like the acclaimed 1995 indie film Clean, Shaven, its a compelling glimpse of mental illness, seen from the inside out. ,

British actress Miranda Richardson was born on 3 March 1958, in Southport, Lancashire, the second daughter of William & Marian Richardson. Born to a middle-class family, Richardson showed a desire to step into the character she was playing, indicating that she would go on to be thought of as one of Britains best, if sorely underrated, actresses. After deciding not to become a vet because of her squeamishness, the young Richardson enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis. In 1981, she made her stage debut in Moving at the Queens Theatre in London. Three years later, she made her big screen debut as platinum blonde nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom in Mike Newell s critically acclaimed biographical drama, Dance with a Stranger. Her performance in that film won her much praise & within a year, she had been cast by Steven Spielberg to appear in his Second World War drama, Empire of the Sun. Posters Of Miranda Richardson

Editors Choice: Spider, Snow White, Get Carter, Swann, The Crying Game, Dance With A Stranger, The Designated Mourner, Underworld, View DVDology

Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes is a British actor. Born in Suffolk, he is the older brother of actor Joseph Fiennes. Having trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988. He is the only actor ever to have won a Tony Award for playing Hamlet on Broadway. In 2001 Fiennes received the William Shakespeare Award from the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington. Fiennes film debut was in 1992, when he played Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights opposite Juliette Binoche. But it was in the following year that he became known internationally, portraying Amon Goeth, the amoral Nazi concentration camp commander in Schindlers List, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1994 he portrayed New England aristocrat Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show & in 1996 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for The English Patient. Fiennes career has gone from horror to animated Biblical epic to campy nostalgia to romantic comedy. He married actress Alex Kingston in 1993, but they divorced in 1997. Posters Of Ralph Fiennes

Editors Choice: Constant Gardener, The Constant Gardener, Wallace And Gromit, Maid In Manhattan, Spider, The English Patient, Red Dragon, Miracle Maker, View DVDology

David Paul Cronenberg is a Canadian horror & science fiction film director. He is famous for creating the genre of body horror, exploring peoples fears of bodily transformation & infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. Cronenbergs films follow a definite progression, a movement from the social world to the inner life. In his early films, scientists modify human bodies, which results in social anarchy. In his middle period, the chaos wrought by the scientist is more personal,. In the later period, the scientist himself is altered by his hubris. This trajectory culiminates in Dead Ringers, in which a twin pair of gynecologists spiral into codependency & drug addiction. Cronenbergs later films tend more to the psychological, often contrasting subjective & obective realities. In most projects, Cronenberg tries to represent his motto New Flesh, which explains the mutation of human body or living organism by a machine or any other mutated organism, into the New Flesh. Posters Of Crash

Editors Choice: Spider, Existenz, Crash, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, The Dead Zone, Videodrome, Scanners, View DVDology

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