| Edition |
Director-approved two-DVD special edition. |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 47 x 33 cm folded to 12 x 19 cm) |
| Physical Medium |
plastic rdapm |
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4 3/4 in. |
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stamping rdapm |
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polychrome rdacc |
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color |
| Description |
digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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surround rdacpc |
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5.1 Dolby digital |
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widescreen rdaar |
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NTSC rdabs |
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video file rdaft |
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DVD video |
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region 1 rdare |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 1059 |
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Criterion collection ; 1059.
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| System Details |
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 16:9 wide screen presentation (1.66:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. |
| Language |
English dialogue. |
| Note |
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
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Title and credits from screen. |
| Cast |
James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Peter Suschitzky ; editor, Ronald Sanders ; music, Howard Shore ; costume designer, Denise Cronenberg ; production designer, Carol Spier. |
| Note |
Based on the book by J.G. Ballard. |
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Wide screen (1.66:1). |
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New 4K digital restoration. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. |
| 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 (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 |
| Audience |
Rating: NC-17; for numerous explicit sex scenes. |
| Note |
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. |
| Contents |
disc one. [The film] -- disc two. [The supplements]. |
| Subject |
Traffic accidents -- Drama.
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Traffic accident victims -- Drama.
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Fetishism (Sexual behavior) -- Drama.
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Paraphilias -- Drama.
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Psychosexual disorders -- Drama.
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Fetishism (Sexual behavior) (OCoLC)fst00923420
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Psychosexual disorders. (OCoLC)fst01081707
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Traffic accidents. (OCoLC)fst01153997
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Traffic accident victims. (OCoLC)fst01153995
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| Genre/Form |
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Erotic films. (OCoLC)fst01710302
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
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Film adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710491
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
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Erotic films.
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Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Cronenberg, David, 1943- film director, film producer, screenwriter.
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Thomas, Jeremy, presenter, film producer.
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Lantos, Robert, 1949- presenter, film producer.
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Hunter, Holly, 1958- actor.
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Spader, James, actor.
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Koteas, Elias, 1961- actor.
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Unger, Deborah Kara, actor.
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Arquette, Rosanna, 1959- actor.
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Sanders, Ronald, 1945- editor of moving image work.
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Suschitzky, Peter, director of photography.
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Shore, Howard, composer (expression)
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009.
Crash.
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Alliance Communications, production company.
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Telefilm Canada, production company.
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Movie Network, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781681437873 |
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1681437872 |
| Standard No. |
715515253710 |
| Music No. |
CC3207DDVD The Criterion Collection |
