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High-Rise demolition
ALAN FRANK is disappointed by the film adaptation of JG Ballard’s dystopian class-war novel
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
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Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
High-Rise (15)
Directed by Ben Wheatley
3/5
WITH Nicolas Roeg as director in mind, producer Jeremy Thomas bought the screen rights to JG Ballard’s extraordinary dystopian novel in 1975.
Some 40 years later, funded by Channel 4 and the BFI, High-Rise finally emerges, lamentably without Roeg at the helm.
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