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Crash

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Director-approved two-DVD special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette, Peter MacNeill.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

MPAA rating: NC-17; explicit sexual content.

Summary

For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted J. G. Ballard's future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James, and an enigmatic doctor, Helen, brings them, along with James's wife, Catherine, together in a crucible of blood and broken glass--and it's not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. Controversial from the moment it premiered at Cannes--where it won a Special Jury Prize "for originality, for daring, and for audacity"--Crash has since taken its place as a key text of late-twentieth-century cinema, a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the book by J.G. Ballard.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised by cinematographer Peter Suschitzky and approved by director David Cronenberg ; audio commentary from 1977 featuring Cronenberg ; press conference from the 1996 Cannes Film Festival featuring Cronenberg, Suschitzky, author J.G. Ballard, producers Robert Lantos and Jeremy Thomas, and actors Rosanna Arquette, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, James Spader, and Deborah Kara Unger ; Q&A from 1996 with Cronenberg and Ballard at the National Film Theatre in London ; behind-the-scene footage and press interviews from 1996 ; trailers.

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