Towering buildings have attracted and repulsed film-makers since the first days of the movies. Nicholas Barber looks back at Hollywood’s changing attitudes. “When we were twenty,” wrote Jean-Paul ...

In Britain we’ve become used to seeing modernist buildings from the sixties and seventies left neglected, receiving unsympathetic makeovers, or being demolished altogether. Think of the tarting up of ...

The floors of a high-rise are divided according to the residents' incomes. The wealthy live at the top, while the poorer inhabitants reside below. When the middle and lower classes refuse to accept ...

Neurologist Dr. Laing (Hiddleston) moves into a pristine tower block in the shiny 1970s, only to see the new society crumble into age-old violence. While J.G. Ballard is seven years gone, and the ...

Ben Wheatley had his biggest budget to date to create the dystopian world portrayed in JG Ballard’s novel High-Rise. Michael Rosser speaks to the UK film-maker about his vision to “shoot on location ...

A multi-storey solution for the everyman and his every need: a Brutalist monument to utilitarian modernism is erected by Royal Architects on the outskirts of an English metropolis. Dr Robert Laing ...

Ben Wheatley's adaptation of J G Ballard's High-Rise takes the lift to cinemaland this week, hoping to challenge and freak out audiences with its mix of social satire and outrageous content. Tom ...

The residents of a state-of-the-art tower block succumb to a collective breakdown in Ben Wheatley’s ingenious adaptation of the JG Ballard novel In the 1970s, people called high-rise buildings slums ...

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There is a wonderful moment midway through High-Rise that sums up perfectly its savage satirical thrust. The towering apartment building in which the entire film is set is in a state of festering ...

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