Variety was on-hand at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, where Cronenberg is being honored with a lifetime achievement award.
“The rule used to be that closeup shots were only done for TV, and not for movies,” he explained, citing one example.
Historically speaking, we can deduce that, if the master of bodily terror is making a television series, it may include all of the above — or not.
“Today TV screens are getting bigger and bigger and therefore the difference between theatre and domestic viewing has become really flimsy,” said Cronenberg at the panel in Venice.