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	Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » The Rats that Ate Mill Park
		Flung headfirst into the uncanny valley, I was struck by the similarities with The Cars that Ate Paris (1974), the Peter Weir film set in the fictional Australian country town of Paris — it’s a Ballardian film of the first order.
		In the background, the youth — Parisian hoons — rev their hotted-up cars in all-in drags, performing burnouts and generally disturbing the peace; this behaviour is tolerated by Parisians, with the hoons perceived as a kind of byproduct of the town’s peculiar economy.
		The Cars that Ate Paris ends in civil war as the hoons take revenge, coming back bigger and badder than ever with lethal, spike-encrusted vehicles, destroying the town hall and other cornerstones of Parisian society in an orgy of tyre smoke and gear-crashing destruction.
	www.ballardian.com /the-rats-that-ate-mill-park (2799 words)

	the self as stranger: re-viewing the cars that ate paris - sa'adi nikro (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He cannot leave the town as he has developed a fear of driving, a consequence of his crash and the revealed fact that only was he driving the car without a license, but that a year earlier he was responsible for the death of a pedestrian.
		The other outsiders, the victims of previous car crashes, are taken care of in the hospital, where their 'rehabilitation' only serves to keep them in a state of mental retardation.
		During and after the Ball the hybrid cars come out onto the streets and vent their rage the rage of youth reacting to the constraining ideals of the older generation.
	www.sa.uts.edu.au /publications/caras/stranger.html (1819 words)

	Cars vital to the 1970s revival
		The mayor of Paris articulates the attitude of the older generation to youth when he states the young people are, ã·idle, lazy and need to workä and reprimands his Îadoptedâ daughters.
		Cars are also used to symbolise the battle between the generations when the driver of the ex-WWII Studebaker truck is forced to surrender to the cars of the youth gang alongside the war memorial.
		Cars was Weirâs second feature film, he made Homesdale in 1971, one segment of Three to Go in 1971 and various short films prior to that.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2003/cars.htm (3500 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Cars That Ate Paris & The Plumber
		The Cars that Ate Paris plays like a compromise, as if the maker of anti-commercial art films were consciously trying to be more commercial.
		After one of their cars is torched as a lesson (conservatives always want to teach contrarians 'lessons') their only aim is to give their elders as much grief as possible.
		Paris is an interesting but not particularly amusing dystopia, where people play charades on party nights.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1002car.html (1830 words)

	DVD Times - The Cars That Ate Paris (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cars is one of those debut films where the talent is obvious, but the results aren’t necessarily satisfying.
		The Cars That Ate Paris is released as part of Fox/Pathé’s “5 Star Value Selection” with a RRP of £5.99.
		Cars was shot in Scope, and the words “2.35:1” on the back of the case are certainly a good sign.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5434 (1266 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 10/22/2003 : Couch Potato: Video and DVD
		Paris teeters on total anarchy due to gasoline rationing and low employment and the car accidents are created as a form of economic survival.
		Waldo, who has remained in Paris as the mayor's adoptive son and the town's "parking officer" confront the rebels once their cars turn violent and strangely human.
		The Cars That Ate Paris predates the hit-and-run driving competition from Death Race 2000 (1975) and George Miller's Mad Max film trilogy, but the films share a common spirit.
	www.citybeat.com /2003-10-22/filmcouchpot.shtml (629 words)

	The Cars That Ate Paris -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Cars That Ate Paris -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Directed by (additional info and facts about Peter Weir) Peter Weir, it was his first feature film.
		Shot in a rural area of (An Australian state in southeastern Australia) New South Wales, it is set in the fictional town of Paris in which most of the inhabitants appear to be directly, or indirectly, involved profiting from the results of (additional info and facts about car accident) car accidents.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_cars_that_ate_paris.htm (79 words)

	Evil Dread - The Cars That Ate Paris 1974 Horror Movie Review.
		"Cars" is such a strange movie that I hadn't decided whether I liked it or not by the half-way mark, luckily by the end I had and I must say that I did enjoy it, if not only for its eccentricity but also its interesting premise (which unfortunately I didn't feel was sufficiently explored).
		Arthur and his brother George crash their car in the small town of Paris, Australia and unfortunately George is killed.
		Without ruining too much of the storyline, the town of Paris seem to cause car accidents on purpose, then salvage the wreckages and add them to their city or use them as Death Race-alike destruction derby cars.
	www.evildread.com /horror-reviews/horror_review.php?id=465 (801 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Cars That Ate Paris
		Arthur finally agrees to stay in Paris and is made "parking officer." But all this does is lead him to a face-to-face confrontation with the sonic youth of the town.
		In essence, The Cars that Ate Paris is not intended as a standard thriller.
		While The Cars that Ate Paris is an awkward and absorbing attempt at unhinging the horror film, The Plumber needs a fellow pipe fitter to help it down the sewage system where it belongs.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/carsateparis.php (1501 words)

	Box Office Prophets: Visionaries and Their Visions
		We see Paris through Arthur's ambivalent eyes, as he struggles to both cope with his brother's death and figure out whether his crash was accidental or deliberate.
		The Cars That Ate Paris was partially inspired by Monty Python, as Weir had developed an appreciation for the troupe around the time he wrote the script.
		Paris is a stand-in for Australia; the Parisians desperate to forge an identity, at whatever cost, are kindred souls representative of Australians' need to create a history.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /hudson/weir.asp (2191 words)

	Boudisque (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the outskirts of the small town of Paris, cars crash with alarming regularity.
		Arthur (Terry Camilleri) survives one such accident and becomes a prisoner of Paris although he's unaware of his predicament as the town has provided him with something he's never had — a family.
		Paris lives off cars — spare parts are their currency — however the source of their livelihood soon turns against them and the cars have their revenge.
	www.boudisque.nl /tips.asp?tipid=1244 (165 words)

	"The Cars That Ate Paris" Film Review: Cinephilia - Australian Film & more
		Despite his misgivings Arthur is convinced by concerned citizens to stay in Paris while he convalesces.
		Behind its façade of normality, Paris, NSW is the epicentre of banal evil and its inhabitants, living ghouls.
		From its disorienting opening parody of ingratiating advertisements of the time, the film maintains a wickedly off-beat humour and eccentric vitality culminating in an orgy of destruction as the repressed tension of the town’s double life explodes.
	www.cinephilia.net.au /show_detailed_review.php?movieid=2471 (357 words)

	DVD.net : The Cars That Ate Paris/The Plumber - DVD Review
		Cars is an exercise in surrealistic fl comedy, about a small New South Wales country town which survives on carnage.
		They cruise the streets in their morbid nightmare cars that have been built up from wreckage parts, resembling grotesque animals more than automobiles, and which make strange wild-animal sounds instead of the happy burble of contented exhausts.
		The trailer for Cars is a poor condition original trailer which refers to the movie's reception at Cannes and to overseas reviews, while the trailer for Plumber is a US re-release effort cashing in on the director's later fame.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=4140 (1098 words)

	Call for ban on cars that ate Paris - National - www.smh.com.au
		Now authorities in Paris have called for them to be banned from the city's centre, but experts here don't hold much hope that Sydney will follow suit.
		Paris City Council voted last week to urge the socialist mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, to consider a ban on 4WDs, which make up 5 per cent of the French car market, Reuters reported.
		The market is so strong that local car makers Holden and Ford have developed their own 4WDs to try to cash in on the boom.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/13/1087065031268.html?from=moreStories (477 words)

	Paris Preview: methane-powered Fiats - Autoblog
		In addition to the higher-output Panda Sport, Fiat will be showing two new methane-powered vehicles at the Paris show at the end of the month.
		In some countries of europe is quite common to use LPG or methane powered cars (in the city where I live there are 2 methane fuel resellers and 12 LPG resellers).
		I applaud the idea of multiple-fuel cars, but I must say that I never thought that Fiat could make the Multipla even UGLIER that it already was.
	www.autoblog.com /2006/09/17/paris-preview-methane-powered-fiats (1168 words)

	Weir drives 'Cars' to DVD - Entertainment
		Indeed, "The Cars That Ate Paris" feels like the far side of the world for Weir - a film that has collected a cult following, made in 1975 for a pittance of what "Master and Commander" cost.
		Only Weir's ambition and his keen eye for visuals remain intact with "Cars," which melds different genres such as westerns, fl comedy and horror to tell the story of a small community in the Australian countryside, that literally falls prey to the automobiles that enter the town.
		An unorthodox double feature to be sure, "The Cars That Ate Paris" and "The Plumber" are probably more rewarding if watched apart from each other, but any time a DVD includes a full-length film as a special feature, it's a reward in itself.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /media/paper410/news/2003/10/22/Entertainment/Weir-Drives.cars.To.Dvd-535072.shtml (377 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
		Paris, Australia isn't much of a town, but it has a nasty habit: the townspeople eke out a living by causing car crashes nearby and scavenging the wreckage.
		Everything in Paris is governed by the car; the economy functions on car parts and oil to the exclusion of just about everything else.
		The corrupt basis of the town also reverses the old saw about the sins of the fathers; here the moral blinders accepted by the older generation is translated by the younger into a complete amorality that ultimately results in the climax of the picture.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5450 (1206 words)

	Screensound Australia - Cars That Ate Paris (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The townspeople of the small country town of Paris, in New South Wales, make a living from cars accidents and cannibalising the wreckage.
		Cars are salvaged for parts and the survivors are reduced to zombies.
		The locals create killer cars from the recycled parts and are driven by local delinquents to prey upon civilisation.
	www.screensound.gov.au /ScreenSound/Screenso.nsf/0/EB0B433D9D0A55D5CA256BC10017CEAC?OpenDocument (109 words)

	Chamber Made - The Cars That Ate Paris (Site not responding. Last check: )
		First performed in a large crash repair garage in Melbourne, The Cars that Ate Paris involved performer and musician as composer, utilising the improvisation skills of singers and instrumentalists to create vocal lines and accompaniment.
		Based on Australian writer/director Peter Weir's film of the same name, this macabre story is set in the small rural town of Paris where the inhabitants live off the proceeds of staged road accidents.
		As Arthur, the survivor of one such accident, overcomes his phobia of cars, we learn the gruesome truth of this gothic outback township.
	www.chambermade.org.au /prod_paris.htm (152 words)

	Monsters At Play: The Cars That Ate Paris Review
		You see, the only way they'll make it to Paris is in the flaming wreckage of their own car after THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS feed.
		Thirty years later, THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS can still be seen as a viable parable about the schism between today's generations, with the gap ever-widening...
		THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS was a commercial bomb, but Weir felt that its failure was a virtue, because what he learned making this film helped him in subsequent projects.
	www.monstersatplay.com /review/dvd/c/ateparis.php (1056 words)

	Zeta Minor - The Cars That Ate Paris
		Cars That Ate Paris, the debut feature from acclaimed write/director Peter Weir, the Oscar-nominated director of The Truman Show.
		Set in the secluded outback town of Paris, Australia, the sinister community preys on unsuspecting tourists who have the misfortune to pass their way.
		Cars are forced off the road in accidents orchestrated by the evil townsfolk, who scavenge parts and possessions for themselves.
	www.zetaminor.com /dvd/incoming_db/listing.php?id=6225 (190 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Cars That Ate Paris
		The "Paris" in question is actually a sleepy backwoods Australian hamlet, and the cars, while a symbol of hunger and consumption in several ways, never actually eat anything.
		Though not necessarily a great or even good film, The Cars That Ate Paris is nonetheless a fascinating debut that affords one the rare opportunity to watch an audaciously talented artist mature through risk-taking and failure.
		Since Arthur is essentially powerless to leave due to his immobilizing fear of cars, he decides to stay and is rewarded by being made the town's parking official.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/c/carsthatateparis.q.shtml (701 words)

	20th Century Fox - The Cars That Ate Paris
		Paris is a tiny backwater town in Australia.
		The road to paris is littered with traps left to snare any motorists that are unfortunate enough to turn off the highway.
		When Arthur realises what's goin on, he, with the aid of the towns youth, threatens to overthrow the ruling faction and bring their lucrative racket to an end.
	www.fox.co.uk /dvd/thecarsthatateparis-10119 (203 words)

	Cold Fusion: The Cars That Ate Paris
		Arthur is a particularly sad-looking individual, and there is soon a reason for it; while Arthur sleeps in the passenger seat, George negotiates a mountain road; he suddenly sees lights ahead and swerves, ending up at the bottom of the cliff.
		George dies, but Arthur is taken to the hospital of the miniscule town of Paris, where a single doctor runs a hospital with a full upper floor of mental patients -- all accident victims.
		In case we missed the clues, we then get to see a midnight scene of a car being parted out, the belongings being split up between citizens, and the injured-but-living driver being given over to the doctor for lobotomy-style experimentation.
	www.coldfusionvideo.com /c/carsthatateparis.html (712 words)

	DETOUR >> Music + Film + Pop Culture >> Word.
		Instead, heâs welcomed to Paris with open arms and adopted by the Mayor (John Meillon) and his wife.
		Paris may initially seem peaceful to Arthur, but he soon learns of the uneasy truce between the fine, upstanding citizens of Paris and the rabble, young men with salvaged, highly decorated cars that they enjoy bashing into one another.
		These punks form âThe Cars,â a car club that seems to be grooming future members of The Humongousâs gang in The Road Warrior.
	detour-mag.com /assets/2008/04/25/cult-flick-the-cars-that-ate-paris (898 words)

	The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
		The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.
		The opening scenes that feature a couple driving in a car and smoking prominently displayed cigarettes were a parody of a commercial aired on Australian television at the time of the film's original release.
		The same car is crashed earlier by a car trying to jump over the Austin using a ramp.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0071282 (397 words)

	Cars That Ate Paris, The & Plumber, The - Atlantic DVD Buy Online
		Paris is a quiet little country town but the unsuspecting motorist who turns off the main highway, attracted by a barrage of inviting signs, will soon discover that the road to Paris is a DEATH TRAP!
		Paris lives off cars — spare parts are their currency — however, the source of their livelihood is about to turn against them.
		"The Cars That Ate Paris" was Peter Weir’s first major feature film.
	www.atlanticdvd.com.au /view.cfm?id=9124 (315 words)

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