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...In the last three decades, he confined himself mostly to writing on his idols (Bellow and Nabokov, Iris Murdoch, Jane Austen, Philip Larkin) and a few senior peers (Updike, Roth, Ballard, DeLillo)....
...The songs (Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard) channel the periods — such as a peppy Fifties number in praise of gasoline and DDT — and there’s a nice streak of self-mockery. “Who are the girls?”...
...I also like JG Ballard: somebody once published a compendium of the books in Ballard’s own library and he used to have a medical textbook on car crashes, which is black and white and not as voyeuristic as...
...Old and new Connelly protagonists interact here: Detective Harry Bosch is drawn out of uneasy retirement into another teaming-up with Renée Ballard of the LAPD when a stolen “murder book” surfaces, detailing...
...We can’t predict the future (well, Ballard can, and Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd got very close), but we are bound inexorably to our past....
...The success of last year’s film adaptation of JG Ballard’s High-Riseshows how Brutalism has become a cipher for social breakdown....
...Hiddleston hints at great potential for a much darker side of his own screen persona in Ben Wheatley’s much-anticipated High-Rise, a long-gestating adaptation of JG Ballard’s 1975 novel....
...Ballard’s Drowned World (hardly the first on the theme; John Christopher’s The World In Winter was published in the same year) did not until recently focus upon human agency causing change – but at least...
...The first in a trilogy whose three parts are all being published this year, VanderMeer’s novel is a psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instil the reader with a deep,...
...Then Christopher Eccleston enters as Creon. There is no diplomatic way of putting this: he is Tony Blair. This is nothing so crass as an impersonation, with all those strange, rigid hand gestures....
...The adaptation of JG Ballard’s book about life in Japan-occupied China during the second world war was shot in Shanghai. It’s an experience the 37-year-old Bale now finds difficult to relate to....
...Ballard, who has died aged 78....
...But the hero “James Ballard” in JG Ballard’s Crash is nothing like JG Ballard....
...Paul Stocker and Laura Pyper take the leads, and the production also stars Jamie Ballard (Ulysses), Christopher Colquhoun (Hector) and Matthew Kelly as Cressida’s uncle Pandarus. Ends September 20....
...Christopher Shutt’s grinding soundtrack keeps up a distressing low-level hum....
...Ballard’s violent avant-garde novel, or the bad press video games attract....
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