CRASH (1996)
Technology and sexuality meet in a head-on collision in Crash-director David Cronenberg's controversial adaptation of writer J.G. Ballard's hugely transgressive 1973 novel starring James Spader and Holly Hunter.
Spader stars as James Ballard, a film producer whose deviant sexual desires are awakened by a near fatal automobile accident with Dr. Helen Remington (Hunter). Soon the pair, alongside Ballard's wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), are drawn into an underground world of car-crash fetishism presided over by renegade scientist Vaughan (Elias Koteas). Danger, sex and death become entwined as eroticism and technology join together in a disturbing, deadly union.
Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival for originality, daring and audacity, Crash remains an incredibly subversive and confrontational piece of cinema-Cronenberg himself describes it as "a dangerous film"-now refurbished in a stunning 4K restoration.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- 4K restoration of the uncut NC-17 version, supervised by director of photography Peter Suschitzky and approved by director David Cronenberg
- 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in High Dynamic Range
- 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo DTS-HD Master Audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary with film scholar Adrian Martin
- Interviews with Suschitzky, executive producer Jeremy Thomas, composer Howard Shore and casting director Deirdre Bowen
- 2019 Q&A with Cronenberg and actor Viggo Mortensen at TIFF
- 1996 Q&A with Cronenberg and source novel writer J.G. Ballard at the National Film Theatre in London
- Behind-the-scenes footage and contemporary press interviews
- Architect of Pain: The Cronenberg Project-video essay by Caelum Vatnsdal on Cronenberg's use of architecture and location
- Crash! (1971, 18 mins)-short film originally broadcast as part of the BBC's Review series, starring J.G. Ballard and loosely adapted from his 1970 novel The Atrocity Exhibition
- Two short films inspired by Ballard and the novel Crash: Nightmare Angel (Zoe Beloff, 1986, 33 mins) and Always (crashing) (Simon Barker and Jason Wood, 2016, 14 mins)
- Two Cronenberg short films: The Nest (2013, 10 mins) and At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World (2007, 4 mins)
- Original Trailers
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
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