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Title: Crash (BFI Modern Classics) by Iain Sinclair, Iain Sinclair ISBN: 0-85170-719-X Publisher: British Film Inst Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ALL THINGS CRASH
Comment: THIS 1999 BFI MODERN CLASSICS BOOK BY IAIN SINCLAIR DOES A WONDERFUL JOB OF COVERING ALL THINGS CRASH. IT CONTAINS AN INTERVIEW WITH J. G. BALLARD AS WELL AS COVERS THE BOOK, THE MOVIE, AND MORE. THIS IS A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR BFI BOOK COLLECTION OR, AT THE VERY LEAST, TO YOUR CRASH READING PLEASURE (ALONG WITH BALLARD's 1973 NOVEL AND CRONENBERG's 1996 SCREENPLAY). DEFINITELY EXTRA CREDIT READING FOR BALLARD OR CRONENBERG LOVERS.
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant essay on the origins of the movie
Comment: As a fan of Ballard I am definitely not a fan of Cronenberg, whom I find superficial, sensational and laddish in the extreme. The movie extracted the least interesting elements of the book and turned them into a kind of techno-porn which I associated with Cronenberg's preferred genre before this book. Now I have a clearer idea of what disturbs me about Cronenberg's versions of books which I have admired -- including The Naked Lunch -- and Sinclair subtly teases out the woman-hating elements which are in both Ballard and Cronenberg, attacks the specious nature of the treatment and reveals the film for the piece of faux-auterism that it is. I didn't know why I didn't like Crash until I read Sinclair and Sinclair in no way attacks the film. He just collects the evidence and presents it. A respected film maker himself (Cardinal and the Corpse, The Falconer, Asylum) Sinclair must be one of the smartest critics in the business. I always follow his essays in the London Review of Books and would recommend them. Sinclair may make films about 'illuminati' but he is himself wonderfully illuminating. I can't recommend this clever, precise essay enough.
Rating: 2
Summary: Concerns Ballard's novel, not Cronenberg's movie
Comment: Sinclair all but ignores David Cronenberg's adaptation of "Crash," focusing instead on Ballard's novels "Crash" and "The Atrocity Exhibition." Unfortunately, he offers little fresh insight into these seminal works.
The BFI series are supposed to be about FILMS, not the novels that inspired them.
The RE/Search volume on J. G. Ballard still remains the best introduction to his work, rendering Sinclair's book unnecessary.
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Title: Blade Runner (Bfi Modern Classics) by Scott Bukatman ISBN: 0851706231 Publisher: British Film Institute Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Se7en (BFI Modern Classics) by Richard Dyer ISBN: 0851707238 Publisher: British Film Inst Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Culture by Linda S. Kauffman ISBN: 0520210328 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.59 |
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Title: Pulp Fiction (Bfi Modern Classics Distributed for the British Film Institute) by Dana B. Polan, Dana Polan ISBN: 0851708080 Publisher: BFI Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title:Fast Company (2-Disc Limited Edition) ASIN: B0001NBLX6 Publisher: Blue Underground Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $26.99 |
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