Comments on: Crash! Full-Tilt Autogeddon

By: J.G. Ballard - Crash!

J.G. Ballard - Crash! — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:36:17 +0000

[...] Full-tilt-autogeddon [...]

By: J.G. Ballard - Crash ! « LEC[teur]AMAteur [leBLOG]

J.G. Ballard - Crash ! « LEC[teur]AMAteur [leBLOG] — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:53:31 +0000

[...] …et une étude complète publiée par Simon Sellars sur ballardian. [...]

By: Diary of a Mad Natural Historian » Connectedness, part eleventy-trillion

Diary of a Mad Natural Historian » Connectedness, part eleventy-trillion — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:11:41 +0000

[...] the google and see what was coming up; before I got anywhere near DoaMNH, I encountered this essay, Crash! Full-Tilt Autogeddon, on the Ballardian. Yes, Ms. Drake appeared in a 1971 short titled Crash!, opposite some guy named [...]

By: J.G.Ballard « ideas nada

J.G.Ballard « ideas nada — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:31:24 +0000

[...] de un libro que se trasmutará en una nueva película, esta adaptada por Cronenberg en 1997. Aquí se puede leer un estupendo artículo sobre la película de [...]

By: Film is Truth 24 Times a Second » Blog Archive » JG Ballard On Film, Online

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:39:13 +0000

[...] novel, Crash. The short (and much discussion regarding it and its source novel) can be seen here. Incidentally, the film features Gabrielle Drake, who was the star of Gerry (Thunderbirds) [...]

By: enthusiasm : archive : J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition: Crash!

enthusiasm : archive : J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition: Crash! — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:01:12 +0000

[...] did notice this when Simon posted it to Ballardian, and I meant to go back and watch it, but somehow it got away from me. You know how it is. Anyway, [...]

By: Crashman

Crashman — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:38:41 +0000

This is a brilliant essay, Simon. It brought back to mind that JGB, (I think) during his brief flirtation with medicine, was attracted to psychiatry as a specialty (what else? Trauma orthopedics perhaps?) I’m still working on my air crash essay for you but thoughts keep intruding of the near future – the first potential AirBus A-380 crash, that most monstrous silver technophallus ever built, the new gigantic and peculiar geometries of jetspeed survivability and death we must now see and explore, scaled up yet again to near-unimaginable size. I need to see this film: it may have some low-budget amateurism (like mine), but JGB as the star – (falls to scarred knees in homage). As ever, thanks for these pages.
-Crashman (in all humility)

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:19:02 +0000

Ben, I agree: Ballard looks super cool. I love that shirt.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:13:40 +0000

Fascinating – especially, for me, on the ‘mantra’ of repetition and for fleshing out further my favourite period of Ballard’s work.
Iain Sinclair himself writes a lot aorund the ‘magical’ power of fiction to bring into play new realities, as you probably know (although its a lot more studied than JGB).
Also Ballard himself looks super-cool, like he should be in Get Carter (that would be a dream conjunction)

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:59:24 +0000

John, I’m not sure why Petit was so negative about the Cokliss film. It seems personal, actually. By the way, I’ve seen his Moving Pictures film, and I plan to write something about it on the site in the near future.

Danny, Sinclair mentions the Nick Drake connection in his Crash book. I was going to quote the reference, but decided I’d best stick to the world of the film. I’m very glad you liked the article.

Cheers,
Simon

By: Danny Bosten

Danny Bosten — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:42:26 +0000

great piece… an aside: gabrielle drake is the sister of legendary singer nick drake, who sadly died very young.

By: John Coulthart

John Coulthart — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:31:34 +0000

No surprise to see Petit griping, he seems to have made a career of it. He directed a short piece for BBC 2’s Moving Pictures in 1990 concerning JGB and the absence of his works on screen. Was good to see Ballard talking but the lengthy moan from Petit failed to mention Cokliss’s film at all while neglecting to list Petit himself among those British filmmakers who’d ignored Ballard’s books. From his comments above he obviously knew of the film and could have shown part of it, as the BBC did in 1979 when the “Auto-erotic” sequence appeared in a Moorcock documentary, Time Out of Mind. At least Cokliss actually put something on screen, and something worth watching at that.

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:52:40 +0000

cheers, jeff, this article was a lot of fun to put together; it wrote itself, really.

there’s more film-related stuff on the way, too.

simon

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:14:44 +0000

THANK YOU for this! For the Youtube link, the transcripts, the thoughtful analysis. Appreciate the thoroughness and great care. This is always a fantastic site, but you’ve outdone yourself.