Crash/ Canada/ 1996/ Dir: David Cronenberg/ 100 Min
***Crash is screening as part of our DAVID CRONENBERG showcase and is included in the cost of a full showcase pass. More info below***
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 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.
David Cronenberg: A Requisite Cinema showcase
To celebrate the release of his latest masterwork THE SHROUDS, the Broadway Theatre has curated a selection of classics from the peerless catalog of the iconoclastic DAVID CRONENBERG. This twelve picture series will highlight the evolution of Cronenberg's unparalleled work as the cerebral and visceral collide, negotiate, and inevitably coalesce across decades of groundbreaking cinema.
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