JG Ballard: Delightfully Vulgar
From Metro, July 25-Aug 2 2005. Silicon Alleys: Machine Love by Gary Singh “THERE’S NO BETTER way to celebrate the inaugural San Jose Grand Prix Champ Car race than to quote legendary British author...
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JG Ballard Meets Helmut Newton
From the Guardian, August 7, 2005. The King of Kinky "Helmut Newton was a photographer who never saw the point of not overstating the obvious: in one infamous shoot, he placed a horse’s saddle on a...
View ArticleA fantasist and cult doom peddler
Stumbled across (while attempting to verify some terrorism statistics) on a rather entertainingly frothing right-wing blog - Britain’s J.G. Ballard once wrote a book called Hello America. Now, if...
View ArticleCronenberg seduces
Good interview with David Cronenberg in Canada’s Toro Magazine, including a brief exchange on Crash - What happens when you get an actor who says no to a piece of direction? I’ve never had that. There...
View ArticleThe Nature of Subcultures
Another interview with Cronenberg puffing ‘A History of Violence’, with a different take on ‘Crash’ - Q: When Crash came out, a lot of people took it literally and thought it was stupid — how can you...
View ArticleThe Killer Inside: Ballard on Cronenberg
From the Guardian, Friday September 23, 2005 “David Cronenberg’s films are full of images that make us recoil in horror. But what we are really trying to hide from is the whole messy business of being...
View ArticlePervscan on Crash
Over at the esteemed Pervscan, they’ve picked up on the story we posted here, about Cronenberg’s film Crash being broadcast across English waters, and have answered my question, “Hands up who thinks...
View ArticleCronenberg in Crash Naming Furore
According to the New York Post, David Cronenberg, director of Crash, has this to say about the title of Paul Haggis’s new film, Crash: I thought it was very disrespectful, not just to me, but to J.G....
View ArticleJ.G. Ballard's Medical Fetish
What we’ve hinted at on Ballardian (ie JG Ballard’s Enlargement Phalloplasty; Why I Want to fuck John Howard), some people have ‘examined’ (ooh, err…nurse!) in a…ahem….’full frontal’ (ooh, vicar!)...
View ArticleCrash Bonsai Revisited
Porn sites love Ballard; I swear our site statistics turn up the oddest links. Enough to make a clean-living chap like me faint from shock. A hardcore fetish site called Goregasm linked to our ‘JG...
View ArticleCrash Wins Best Picture Oscar!
He may have missed out for History of Violence, but he did win for Crash…. In a huge Academy Awards boilover, we witnessed a rare victory for auto-eroticism and body horror, so let’s hear it for David...
View ArticleContrite Haggis Backs Down Over Ballardian Naming Furore
Perhaps wary of David Cronenberg’s veiled threat to snare him in a bear trap and skin him alive for dissing JG Ballard, Paul Haggis, director of the ‘other’ Crash, has this to say after his Oscar win...
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"Thirsty Man at the Spigot": An Interview with Jonathan Weiss
by Simon Sellars Victor Slezak as ‘T’ in The Atrocity Exhibition Ballardian presents an exclusive interview with Jonathan Weiss, director of The Atrocity Exhibition, the film based on the J.G. Ballard...
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JG Ballard: Autopsy of the New Millennium
JG Ballard expert Rick McGrath reports on a Ballard exhibition to be held at Barcelona’s Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona from July 2007 (they’ve resisted the temptation to call it ‘The...
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'No-One Dances in Ballard': An Interview with Mike Ryan
by Simon Sellars I think I’m the only person I know who doesn’t own a record player or a single record. I’ve never understood why, because my maternal grandparents were lifelong teachers of music, and...
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Critical Mass: Sound, Story and Music in David Cronenberg's Crash
As part of our Ballardian Music series, Cat Hope looks back at Howard Shore’s soundtrack for the David Cronenberg adaptation of Crash. —————————————————————————————————————- Cat Hope is an Australian...
View ArticleAtrocity Exhibition/Throat Sprockets
Thanks to TimC for pointing me towards this very positive review of Weiss’s Atrocity Exhibition film, published in Sight & Sound. Interestingly, the fellow who wrote that review, Tim Lucas, also...
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'When in doubt, quote Ballard': An interview with Iain Sinclair
Interview by Tim Chapman Iain Sinclair at the Barbican. Photo: Tim Chapman, © 2006. Iain Sinclair has been acclaimed as one of Britain’s most visionary writers and as an incomparable prose stylist. His...
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Inter-Porn Symp
Over at k-punk a few months back, Mark posted a radical thesis that positioned Basic Instinct 2 as the unofficial sequel to Cronenberg/Ballard’s Crash: [Catherine] Tramell returns in the second film...
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David Cronenberg’s Alien — Novelization by J.G. Ballard
———————————————————————————— Lyle Hopwood uncovers a lost Ballard work, apparently the only surviving fragment from JGB’s novelization of David Cronenberg’s film of Alien, before the studio infamously...
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