By MICHAEL GINGOLD
Long live the new flesh, indeed.
Almost exactly 40 years to the day since it first opened in theaters, David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME is returning to the big screen in New York City. The Metrograph theater (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan) will premiere a new 4K restoration of Cronenberg’s special Director’s Cut on Friday, February 3, and play it through Sunday, February 5, with select encore screenings to follow. VIDEODROME, originally released February 4, 1983, stars James Woods as a UHF television programmer with a taste for the bizarre who is introduced to an underground sex/snuff program called VIDEODROME. As he becomes obsessed with the show, and involved with the similarly fixated radio host Nicki Brand (Debbie Harry), Max begins uncovering the strange truth behind VIDEODROME, and experiencing frightening hallucinations and technological bodily mutations. For more information and to order tickets, head over to the Metrograph website.
