David Cronenberg: A Dangerous Method

The Treatment

KCRW

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Elvis Mitchell as he hosts David Cronenberg for a master class in the origins of psychoanalysis and an up-close look at Cronenberg's constant evolution as a filmmaker.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.
0:15.4	Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.
0:18.8	My guest, director, David Cronenberg, has been with us for every movie he has done since 1996.
0:25.0	Amazing.
0:25.5	Amazing.
0:26.6	His newest film, A Dangerous Method, is an adaptation of the book, The Most Dangerous Method, adapted by Christopher Hampton.
0:32.5	David, thanks so much for coming back to the show.
0:34.3	Well, my pleasure.
0:35.4	There is more light in this movie than any movie you've ever done.
0:38.4	It suffused with light.
0:39.7	We got lucky with the weather.
0:40.9	What can I say?
0:42.3	Well, you know, I say that jokingly, but it's also true.
0:47.3	You know, there's an element of found art in any movie, especially when you're on a budget,
0:52.1	you know?
0:52.7	So the weather in Germany, where we were
0:56.0	shooting, was fantastic. And if it had rained on some of those days, I probably would have
1:01.3	shot those days, you know, because we couldn't have afforded to just wait for the weather.
1:05.5	Having said that, though, of course, there's this style of the interior lighting and so on. And
1:10.6	it's not a plan, You know, it's not,
1:13.5	I mean, the way I work with my director of photography is we, we, it's all intuitive. You know,
1:19.2	it's not like we come to it with an agenda, really careful plan, a sort of a schematic thing or
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