CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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High-Rise demolition
ALAN FRANK is disappointed by the film adaptation of JG Ballard’s dystopian class-war novel
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
New releases from Javon Jackson, IZE Trio, and Mal Waldron Trio
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
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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