Crash! (1971) Part 2 of 2

[longlivefilm]

does anyone know the location of the car park ?

[Zardoz5280]

This is a video version of non rhyming prose

[neonwind]

Tomorrow Today!

[vitesenzafine]

1971? I don't think so. "Crash" the novel only came out in 1973.

[spatchcocked1]

@vitesenzafine As the caption states, its based on the short story Crash! This is from "The Atrocity Exhibition" published in 1970. Ballard expanded the rather sparse concept (its difficult to describe it as a story in the conventional sense) for his later novel

[cxpxrx]

does anyone know the composer? or just a faceless BBC staff member...

[blueingreentrain]

great info!

[Pookatube]

The Handbrake Penetrates You Thigh!!!!

QUICK...Let's Make Love....Before You Die!!!!

[GoreDepeche]

@Pookatube warm letherette

[closertofiftythanyew]

@GoreDepeche

yes, re. Warm Leatherette, available, sign-in required, quite slaughter house views, one for driving rubber-neckers,

watch?v=GHM8ClE-niQ

[closertofiftythanyew]

With being born and brought up within countryside air, and with being a child on family shopping trips to city in the days of lead and particulate-full fuel waste, the multi-story car park as the first breath of city air ouside the cell of a car, was breathtaking, literally.

[scorejames]

The Gabrielle Drake sequence is more disturbing than anything in Cronenberg's Crash. The Ballard scenes are dull. The cameraman is more interested in close-ups of his face.

[fstop77]

Totally fetishizes our relationship with our vehicles! Great stuff! Listen to the Normal's Warm Leatherette, it's a tribute to JG.

[cypionate011]

they could not have picked a better woman,to be in this,she makes even a car crash look sexy.

[d1armuid]

Great post. Ballard makes a great voyeuristic weirdo! He should have made more films

[criticofeverything]

If it weren't for the beautiful Gabrielle Drake, this film makes me want to off myself. How fucking depressing! That weird '70s music is enough to make one swallow a 1911 Colt.

Thank you Gabrielle for saving my life!

[UNDERGRAD13]

thank you for this... many thanx for posting...

[tomcatfranks]

They didn't all have dummies in them back then; some tests were done on human cadavers from medical schools.

[Certex]

Thanks for uploading this. Much appreciated. Off to drink and drive now...

[Nickthetoast]

Clunk-click, every trip mate... every trip.

[vaughanAKA]

WOW! I almost can't believe I'm seeing this... read about it in Iain Sinclair's BFI book about Crash, but honestly never thought I'd get to see it... my never-ending thanks go out to you. JG was a unique imagination and a prescient observer. RIP

[nemportecua]

Thanks for this. This guy was a genious.

[awnok]

Weirdsville, man.

[suitandtieguy]

wow. thank you for posting this.

[Dn2kproductions]

god this is actually quiet disturbing in a really lame way lol

[DeDomenici]

Thanks for uploading this, I have been looking for it for aaaages.