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High Rise director Ben Wheatley: societal collapse is imminent
Why JG Ballard’s High-Rise takes dystopian science fiction to a new level
Ben Wheatley on 'High-Rise' and Cult Filmmaking
Underappreciated Masterpieces: J. G. Ballard’s 'High Rise'
A Love Letter to J.G. Ballard's 'High-Rise'
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High Rise director Ben Wheatley: societal collapse is imminent
Why JG Ballard’s High-Rise takes dystopian science fiction to a new level
Ben Wheatley on 'High-Rise' and Cult Filmmaking
Underappreciated Masterpieces: J. G. Ballard’s 'High Rise'
A Love Letter to J.G. Ballard's 'High-Rise'
I'm so totally hyped about this movie. I read the entire book on an airplane in one sitting, which I think might be the ideal way to read Ballard. That trailer is incredible. Wheatley's got the look down just right, and he's exactly the brilliant, precise, misanthropic kind of director the source material demands.
posted by One Second Before Awakening at 8:49 AM on December 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by One Second Before Awakening at 8:49 AM on December 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
Lost in Translation: Notes on Adapting Ballard
posted by theodolite at 9:02 AM on December 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by theodolite at 9:02 AM on December 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
I saw this at the FNC in Montreal this fall, very much enjoyed... I think he's captured the spirit of the book very well.
posted by remembrancer at 9:16 AM on December 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by remembrancer at 9:16 AM on December 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
Oh, this looks good!
posted by mochapickle at 9:23 AM on December 14, 2015
posted by mochapickle at 9:23 AM on December 14, 2015
I wonder if Cronenberg's Shivers was inspired by this.
posted by grumpybear69 at 9:27 AM on December 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 9:27 AM on December 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
I love that it's set in the seventies so that they could go full brutalist with the building.
posted by octothorpe at 9:49 AM on December 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by octothorpe at 9:49 AM on December 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
Snowpiercer 2: This time it's vertical.
posted by shinji_ikari at 10:16 AM on December 14, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by shinji_ikari at 10:16 AM on December 14, 2015 [9 favorites]
What, you didn't include the rest of the first sentence in the title?
posted by Chrysostom at 10:17 AM on December 14, 2015
posted by Chrysostom at 10:17 AM on December 14, 2015
Early reviewers said the movie was styled to look like the 70s version of the near future so I'm ALL IN.
posted by The Whelk at 10:21 AM on December 14, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 10:21 AM on December 14, 2015 [3 favorites]
I'm very excited about this. One of my favorite Ballards.
Great question, grumpybear69.
posted by doctornemo at 10:23 AM on December 14, 2015
Great question, grumpybear69.
posted by doctornemo at 10:23 AM on December 14, 2015
Meanwhile, in 2013...
Tension came to a head in August after a disruption to the water supply left some residents in affordable homes without water for nearly two days. Some residents found an emergency hosepipe existed for the private homeowners only to be told it could not be used to temporarily supply affordable homes. Families claim that at one point they were reduced to filling up bottles from a decorative fountain at the entrance to the luxury housing area.
posted by remembrancer at 10:25 AM on December 14, 2015 [4 favorites]
Tension came to a head in August after a disruption to the water supply left some residents in affordable homes without water for nearly two days. Some residents found an emergency hosepipe existed for the private homeowners only to be told it could not be used to temporarily supply affordable homes. Families claim that at one point they were reduced to filling up bottles from a decorative fountain at the entrance to the luxury housing area.
posted by remembrancer at 10:25 AM on December 14, 2015 [4 favorites]
Snowpiercer 2: This time it's vertical.
exactly my thought.
posted by sweetkid at 11:05 AM on December 14, 2015
I love that it's set in the seventies so that they could go full brutalist with the building.
I recently got a chance to wander around one of DC's new, lux, post-gentrification condo towers, and High Rise was all I could think about. Blood would look very dramatic spattered all over the acres of plate glass and off-white carpeting.
posted by ryanshepard at 11:31 AM on December 14, 2015
I recently got a chance to wander around one of DC's new, lux, post-gentrification condo towers, and High Rise was all I could think about. Blood would look very dramatic spattered all over the acres of plate glass and off-white carpeting.
posted by ryanshepard at 11:31 AM on December 14, 2015
I can't wait. Ballard is a huge favourite of mine. And just because it's appropriate: Ed Ruscha's "The Music From The Balconies..."
posted by Zack_Replica at 11:53 AM on December 14, 2015
posted by Zack_Replica at 11:53 AM on December 14, 2015
I can't wait to see this. I was hoping it'd be released sooner but March is not too far off.
I wonder if Cronenberg's Shivers was inspired by this.
Maybe not directly, High Rise and Shivers were both released in 1975, but I think it's safe to assume Ballard's work did influence Cronenberg's more generally. His adaptation of Crash was, in my opinion, mostly a failure though.
posted by AtoBtoA at 12:06 PM on December 14, 2015
I wonder if Cronenberg's Shivers was inspired by this.
Maybe not directly, High Rise and Shivers were both released in 1975, but I think it's safe to assume Ballard's work did influence Cronenberg's more generally. His adaptation of Crash was, in my opinion, mostly a failure though.
posted by AtoBtoA at 12:06 PM on December 14, 2015
I can't wait to see this. I was hoping it'd be released sooner but March is not too far off.
It's frustrating how long it takes for art-house type movies to actually get released to the general public these days. They filmed this a year and half ago and it's been wandering around film festivals since September but we have to wait another four months to see it. Another one is Midnight Special which was made two years ago but won't be out until March.
posted by octothorpe at 12:52 PM on December 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
It's frustrating how long it takes for art-house type movies to actually get released to the general public these days. They filmed this a year and half ago and it's been wandering around film festivals since September but we have to wait another four months to see it. Another one is Midnight Special which was made two years ago but won't be out until March.
posted by octothorpe at 12:52 PM on December 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
High Rise and Shivers were both released in 1975
Ah, so this is more akin to how Existenz was related to The Matrix.
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:46 PM on December 14, 2015
Ah, so this is more akin to how Existenz was related to The Matrix.
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:46 PM on December 14, 2015
I watched the video before opening up the thread, so I thought the company that was the subject of this FPP had just come out with another advert.
Didn't think they did a very good job of selling the place.
posted by sevenofspades at 8:37 PM on December 14, 2015
Didn't think they did a very good job of selling the place.
posted by sevenofspades at 8:37 PM on December 14, 2015
This looks really good.
Maybe not directly, High Rise and Shivers were both released in 1975, but I think it's safe to assume Ballard's work did influence Cronenberg's more generally. His adaptation of Crash was, in my opinion, mostly a failure though.
I'm a huge Cronenberg fan. I even have a portrait of myself arguing with the Mugwump at the Cronenberg exhibit that was up at TIFF a couple of years ago. They had a camera set up that would send you pics.
Anyhoo. When Crash came out, I saw it with some friends in a mall cinema in Windsor, Ontario.
To be clear: Crash is a Cronenberg failure, in my mind. But the best part of seeing this in the theatre were the walkouts.
There were a bunch in the first fifteen minutes or so.
The fun came when we had to dissect the later walkouts.
The best part of that was the young woman (like 18-20 years of age) stomping up the aisle hand-over-mouth, as though she was ready to vomit, when James Spader's character has sexytimes with Elias Koteas' character. The guy she was with all like "Hey, where are you going?"
He stayed for the duration.
As a group, me and my friends were game for whatever Cronenberg was going to do with this JG Ballard novel, but pretty convinced getting close to the end of it that he had kind of shit the bed with it. So we were resigned to a heckle-worthy situation.
With about ten minutes to go, this straight couple gets up and STORMS out, muttering about how disgusting this all was. They stayed for the whole goddamn film pretty much.
So the viewing was better than the film, and I still like Cronenberg despite this misstep in interpreting a Ballard novel. YMMV.
But I like the look of Highrise.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 11:54 PM on December 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
Maybe not directly, High Rise and Shivers were both released in 1975, but I think it's safe to assume Ballard's work did influence Cronenberg's more generally. His adaptation of Crash was, in my opinion, mostly a failure though.
I'm a huge Cronenberg fan. I even have a portrait of myself arguing with the Mugwump at the Cronenberg exhibit that was up at TIFF a couple of years ago. They had a camera set up that would send you pics.
Anyhoo. When Crash came out, I saw it with some friends in a mall cinema in Windsor, Ontario.
To be clear: Crash is a Cronenberg failure, in my mind. But the best part of seeing this in the theatre were the walkouts.
There were a bunch in the first fifteen minutes or so.
The fun came when we had to dissect the later walkouts.
The best part of that was the young woman (like 18-20 years of age) stomping up the aisle hand-over-mouth, as though she was ready to vomit, when James Spader's character has sexytimes with Elias Koteas' character. The guy she was with all like "Hey, where are you going?"
He stayed for the duration.
As a group, me and my friends were game for whatever Cronenberg was going to do with this JG Ballard novel, but pretty convinced getting close to the end of it that he had kind of shit the bed with it. So we were resigned to a heckle-worthy situation.
With about ten minutes to go, this straight couple gets up and STORMS out, muttering about how disgusting this all was. They stayed for the whole goddamn film pretty much.
So the viewing was better than the film, and I still like Cronenberg despite this misstep in interpreting a Ballard novel. YMMV.
But I like the look of Highrise.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 11:54 PM on December 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
I really wish I'd walked out of the other Crash.
posted by Artw at 6:53 AM on December 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Artw at 6:53 AM on December 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
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