David Cronenberg to receive lifetime achievement award at 2018 Venice Film Festival

Festival to pay tribute to the Canadian filmmaker of ‘The Fly’, ‘Crash’ and ’Naked Lunch’David Cronenberg will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 75th International Film Festival of the Biennale di Venezia (Aug 29-Sept 8).“I’ve always loved the Golden Lion of Venice,” said the Toronto-born director.

“A lion that flies on golden wings––that’s the essence of art, isn’t it? The essence of cinema.

It will be almost unbearably thrilling to receive a Golden Lion of my own.”Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method screened in Competition at Venice in 2011.

The tense drama about Sabina Spielrein,

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