Kat's film links page

Links to my favourite flicks...

• City of Lost Children "Who will take your dreams away,... takes your soul another day..." A touching and quite often surreal offering from Delicatessen's directors Caro, and Jeunet...
• Withnail and I "We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them here, and we want them now..." Comedy directed by Bruce Robinson (1986) about two unemployed actors taking a visit to the English Lakes. Stars Richard E Grant and Paul Mc Gann... Here's the script...
• Trainspotting "Choose life... choose a job... choose a career... choose a family... choose a fucking big television... choose washing machines, cars, compact disk players, and electrical tin openers..."
• The Crying Game My favourite transgendered film... a collection of links related to it, and it's star,... Jaye Davidson.
• Metropolis was originally made in 1926 by the German director, Fritz Lang, and is the Bladerunner of the modernist era... It's hero Freder discovers the suffering of a proletariat in the city of Metropolis, perhaps best exemplified in the clock scene that inspired the video for Queen's Radio Ga Ga track...
• Metropolis The second URL I've included as a link... The silent film was reconstructed in 1984 by Giorgio Moroder and given a 'contemporary' score which now sounds distinctly 1980s!
• Crash David Cronenberg's recent offering was given a general release certificate in the UK despite Tory MP Virginia Bottomley's moralistic whinging, however most of our local authorities are threatening to close local cinemas if they show the film... With the Church of England based here in Canterbury, it's unlikely it'll ever be shown here... Here's the multimedia site anyway...
• New Perverse Logic: The Interface of Technology and Eroticism in JG Ballard's Crash and William Gibson's Neuromancer... A site which addresses the important themes of simulacra and simulation in JG Ballard's novel 'Crash' that were ignored by the naive moralists who got the film censored...
• Michael Collins Neil Jordan's oddly controversial film about the early history of the Irish Republican Army... (before they mutated into a terrorist organisation that orchestrated mainland bombing campaigns...)
• Blade Runner Frequently asked questions about Ridley Scott's film...