L’Hamestoque (1977) by Christine Gaussot.
• Another announcement from Strange Attractor Press: Of Mud & Flame: A Penda’s Fen Sourcebook edited by Matthew Harle and James Machin will be published at the end of October. Among the contents will be the screenplay of David Rudkin’s cult television play, an item that’s always been impossible to find in print.
• A trailer for Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955), another semi-animated fantasy film by Karel Zeman which will released on disc next month by Second Run.
• “There was craziness in getting lost and dizzy.” Stereolab choose favourite songs from their back catalogue.
• E=MC² (1976), an album of spacey jazz-electronica by Teddy Lasry which has never been reissued.
• “Why do so many book covers look the same? Blame Getty Images,” says Cory Matteson.
• Mix of the week: The Ephemeral Man’s Teapot by The Ephemeral Man.
• Masataka Nakano has been photographing a deserted Tokyo for almost 30 years.
• Beyond the bounds of depravity: an oral history of David Cronenberg’s Crash.
• Woodblocks in Wonderland: The Japanese Fairy Tale Series.
• A new novel by M. John Harrison is always a good thing.
• Hamid Drake‘s favourite music.
• Warm Leatherette (1980) by Grace Jones | Crash (1980) by Tuxedomoon | A Crash At Every Speed (1994) by Disco Inferno
Thank you for the link to that most enjoyable article about Cronenberg’s Crash. My son was once assigned to watch the “other” Crash film for a college course, but somehow managed to see Cronenberg’s instead. I love to imagine how lost he was during the class discussion!
One other notable aspect of Cronenberg’s film is its soundtrack (by Howard Shore), which seems to have been inspired by Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca’s guitar symphonies. The soundtrack could could easily be mistaken for an instrumental recording by Sonic Youth.