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Coming Never: Richard Gere as Blake

By Simon Sellars • May 7th, 2008 •

Category: America, Australia, David Cronenberg, Philip K. Dick, Steven Spielberg, alternate worlds, features, film, surrealism, television, theatre

UPDATED. Aside from the films of Empire and Crash, Ballard has had almost all his novels optioned for the screen at some stage. Suitors include Richard Gere, Samuel L. Jackson, Jack Nicholson, David Frost and a trio of scantily-clad cavegirls.



Crash: It’s that Low Mechanical Hum in the Background

By Simon Sellars • Sep 26th, 2007 •

Category: Ballardosphere, David Cronenberg, film, speed & violence, terrorism, theatre

The resonance of Crash refuses to dissipate.
Firstly, John emailed to inform me of a new Washington Times interview with David Cronenberg, in which the Baron of Blood makes this rather curious remark:
There’s an eroticism involved, certainly in ‘Crash,’ and I really saw that in the beheading videos. They looked like homosexual gang rapes with [...]



Concrete Island: J.G. Ballard Goes Dutch

By Simon Sellars • Oct 7th, 2005 •

Category: Ballardosphere, architecture, interviews, media landscape, theatre

interview by Simon Sellars

Isabelle Jenniches, originally from Germany, is a multimedia artist now based in California. With collaborator Stefan Kunzmann she staged a theatre adaptation of JG Ballard’s novel Concrete Island at the Theater de Balie, Amsterdam, in 2002. The performance incorporated aspects of Butoh as well as an industrial/ambient soundtrack, projections and video; it [...]