Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening

to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we have a very special episode because we are talking

about David Cronenberg again, but we're doing it with the person that wrote the book on David Cronenberg, Violet Luca.

Hi, guys.

Hello.

Thank you so much for joining us, Violet, and David Cronenberg, a topic I didn't think I would revisit

because it's something that is covered so often that I even feel, Will, when we did our

episode, we were like, ah, this is the contractually

mandated David Cronenberg episode that people keep asking us about. I'm actually very happy to be

revisiting Cronenberg because I feel that on the previous time we did him, I was maybe a little,

I haven't listened to that episode or anything, but I remember being just a little bit too much

under the sway of

Robin Wood at the time. Robin Wood being, you know, probably the great Canadian left-wing critic

who is probably like the greatest dissenting voice towards Cronenberg. Obviously, I love Cronenberg,

who doesn't, but I feel like I have sometimes allowed his take on Kronenberg to occupy a disproportionate share of my brain.

So I'd like to rectify that a little bit today with Violet.

Well, I feel like these are uniquely Canadian problems because Kronenberg is such an icon of, well, I mean, he's like the most exportable, most successful Canadian director.

So to be like, oh, God, again with this guy, I understand.

But don't let any of people in your audience think there's not anything new to say about

David Cronenberg or just remember the nice things.

That leads me to the first question I want to ask.

Very simple, straight ahead. Why write a book about David Cronenberg? Well, somebody asked me to the first question I want to ask. Very simple, straight ahead. Why write a book about

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