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The Atrocity Exhibition (2000)
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"The Atrocity ExhibitionI saw this last weekend. I'm a fan of Cronenberg's Crash and was anxious enough to see this that I bought a European DVD off eBay. Ballard is a writer who fascinates me in his approach to insanity. Insanity not as a pathological condition to be cured, but more as a situation of consciousness. A product of an evolutionary force. Cronenberg shares the same fascination of course, most particularly in films like Scanners and Videodrome. So let me share one annoying thing about trying to see a movie like this one. Jonathon Weiss did an amazing job of adapting an "unfilmable" piece of experimental fiction. He spent years working on the project. He taught himself filmmaking, set up a studio in Brooklyn and chose this text to work out his ideas. It made the film festival circuit and quietly dissappeared. Ballard himself praised the film highly. A Dutch DVD company called reel23 chose this film as their first release. A nice effort with commentary track by the directo ... "
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