"Simulacra and Simulation" and Hollywood

[Dave Monroe]

The Thirteenth Floor ...

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0139809

... was adapted as well on Daniel Galouye's
Simulacron-3.

Galouye, Daniel F.  Simulacron-3.
   New York: Bantam, 1964.

... a.k.a. Counterfeit World in the U.K. (London:
Gollancz, 1965).  I'll keep looking for a copy (orf
whatever degree of legitimacy) of the Fassbinder film,
but the novel itself, however, is currently available
online, albeit at a (nominal?) price ...

http://www.rosettabooks.com/cgi-bin/rb2_retail.cgi

... which is still better than waht many used book
dealers are charging for it in the wake of its
newfound interest.  Did notice a cheap German copy,
however ...

http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=134374442

Galouye, by the way, was a NOLA native ...

http://www.rosettabooks.com/pages/author_7.html

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Galouye,+Daniel+F.

http://www.sfsite.com/isfdb-bin/exact_author.cgi?Daniel_F._Galouye

But also note Alphaville's/Germany Year 90 Nine Zero's
"Lemmy Caution," Eddie Constantine, in that Fassbinder
film ...

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070904

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Constantine,+Eddie

But along these lines, I preferred Dark City ...

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118929

... or even Open Your Eyes (but NOT Vanilla Sky) ...

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0125659

... or for that matter Total Recall ...

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100802

... to The Matrix ...

--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately it is not available on tape or DVD...
> (at least not the  subtitled version)
>
> >From: "Otto" <o.sell at TELDA.NET>
> >
> >And I still recommend this, 'though I guess it will
> >be hard to get in the US . . .
> >
> >Welt am Draht (World on a Wire, 1973)
> >P1 99 min., P2 106 min., colour, German w/English
> >subtitles, 35 mm, New Print. (Rainer Werner
> >Fassbinder 1973)

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