CRASH "Dreams of Steel" About David Cronenberg's film by Olivier Pere Text of the book included in the Ultra Collector Box It's the story of a couple who never look each other in the eye, look for each other and get lost in sexual adventures. A car accident will lead him into new experiences, more dangerous and more exciting. Hoping to finally meet again. By adapting the prophetic novel by the English writer JG Ballard, David Cronenberg turns out to be a surgeon of the soul. In an atmosphere of gentle apocalypse, his film offers nothing less than to reinvent the human body, associated with the machine, but also to explore unknown dimensions of love and eroticism. Object of scandal...
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ELEPHANT-MAN "All Monsters" About David Lynch's film by Alexandre Prouveze Book out of print Less mysterious and hermetic than an Eraserhead or a Mulholland Drive , David Lynch's second feature film, Elephant Man , nevertheless succeeded in the feat, in 1980, of reconciling openness to the “general public” and radical singularity. Through this film, Lynch also defines some of the decisive features of his cinema, particularly in terms of atmosphere, spaces, direction of actors or dramatic progression. But Elephant Man is also the fruit of a collective adventure. Around the young Lynch, are indeed busy a producer as unexpected as faithful (Mel Brooks), a John Hurt just out of Heaven's Gate by Michael Cimino, the chief make-up artist of the...
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