Crash
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020],c2020
Format: Blu-ray Disc
Edition: Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 47 x 33 cm folded to 12 x 18 cm)
"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 (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James's wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), 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 debuted 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"--Container.
Series: Criterion collection ; 1059.
Other Authors:
Cronenberg, David, 1943- film director, film producer, screenwriter.
Thomas, Jeremy, presenter, film producer.
Lantos, Robert, 1949- presenter, film producer.
Hunter, Holly, 1958- actor.
Spader, James, actor.
Koteas, Elias, 1961- actor.
Unger, Deborah Kara, actor.
Arquette, Rosanna, 1959- actor.
Shore, Howard, composer (expression)
Sanders, Ronald, 1945- editor of moving image work.
Suschitzky, Peter, director of photography.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009. Crash.
Alliance Communications, production company.
Telefilm Canada, production company.
Movie Network, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Cronenberg, David, 1943- film director, film producer, screenwriter.
Thomas, Jeremy, presenter, film producer.
Lantos, Robert, 1949- presenter, film producer.
Hunter, Holly, 1958- actor.
Spader, James, actor.
Koteas, Elias, 1961- actor.
Unger, Deborah Kara, actor.
Arquette, Rosanna, 1959- actor.
Shore, Howard, composer (expression)
Sanders, Ronald, 1945- editor of moving image work.
Suschitzky, Peter, director of photography.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009. Crash.
Alliance Communications, production company.
Telefilm Canada, production company.
Movie Network, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Target Audience: Rating: NC-17; for numerous explicit sex scenes.
ISBN:
9781681437866
UPC: 715515253611
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BD DRAMA Crash | Sandhills Indoors | Blu-ray Disc | In |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Adapted from J.G. Ballard's novel.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
New 4K digital restoration.
Special features: audio commentary from 1977 featuring David Cronenberg; Ballard and Cronenberg (footage from a lecture with Ballard and Cronenberg discussing the film adaptation effort and the controversy surrounding both the film and book); press conference from the 1996 Cannes Film Festival; Q&A from 1996; behind-the-scene footage and press interviews from 1996; U.S. and international trailers; on insert, essay by Jessica Kiang.
Director of photography, Peter Suschitzky ; editor, Ronald Sanders ; music, Howard Shore ; costumes, Denise Cronenberg ; production designer, Carol Spier.
James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette.
Blu-ray; region A; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1; 16:9 wide screen presentation.
English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Adapted from J.G. Ballard's novel.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
New 4K digital restoration.
Special features: audio commentary from 1977 featuring David Cronenberg; Ballard and Cronenberg (footage from a lecture with Ballard and Cronenberg discussing the film adaptation effort and the controversy surrounding both the film and book); press conference from the 1996 Cannes Film Festival; Q&A from 1996; behind-the-scene footage and press interviews from 1996; U.S. and international trailers; on insert, essay by Jessica Kiang.
Director of photography, Peter Suschitzky ; editor, Ronald Sanders ; music, Howard Shore ; costumes, Denise Cronenberg ; production designer, Carol Spier.
James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette.
Blu-ray; region A; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1; 16:9 wide screen presentation.
English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).