crash ( 1996 film )
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paul haggis'' crash' vs. david cronenberg' s' crash'
trailer 2 for david cronenberg' s crash (1996). music: lush - undertow (spooky remix )
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not the oscar bait film, but the good - very good cronenberg film about sex and car crash fetishists .
one of the film' s creatures on the cover of the july 8, 1996 issue of time .
between 1996 and 1997, crash (canada, 1996, d. david cronenberg), based on j. g. ballard' s celebrated novel, became the focal point of one of the most hysterical furores that british film censorship had seen to date .
james spader as james ballard and elias koteas as vaughan. crash, 1996 photographer: michael gibson
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gabrielle james ballard’s leg brace worn in the film by james spader (prop). stephan dupuis, special effects makeup john jackson, fabricator crash, 1996 aluminum, metal bolts courtesy david cronenberg
gabrielle’s leg brace, worn in the film by rosanna arquette (costume). stephan dupuis, special effects makeup and prosthetics designer crash, 1996 moulded plastic, fiberglass 70 x 12 x 15cm david cronenberg collection, tiff film reference library
gabrielle (rosanna arquette) in steel - reinforced leg and hip braces. crash, 1996 photographer: jonathan wenk
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revisit the shock of symphorophilia with will self and chris beckett, editor of a new edition of crash. their discussion is followed by a rare chance to see the uncut version of david cronenberg’s 1996 film adaptation on the big screen. cronenberg’s film of crash (1996), which ballard greatly admired, was awarded a special jury prize at its premiere at the cannes film festival. the film introduced a second generation to ballard’s unsettling vision, and sparked a censorship controversy that led to the film being banned by westminster city council. the film will be introduced by its producer, jeremy thomas. full details
not long after the release of kids in 1996, there were calls for the banning of david cronenberg' s film, crash. once again, the bbfc considered the film very carefully - including screening the film for lawyers and for a group of disabled people - but found that there was no case to answer. the film was rated 18 uncut .
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this crash is a fascinating film, rather than a good one. i think is difference is important. the other crash is a fine film, in a very different way. i wasn' t at all unhappy when it won the oscar .
director david cronenberg and james spader (james ballard) inspect the hip and leg braces worn by rosanna arquette as gabrielle. crash, 1996 photographer: jonathan wenk
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- i’m watching a david cronenberg film. - i don’t know what that is. - he is a director known for his body horror and themes of sex and death. he made the fly, videodrome, crash, and scanners. - oh, crash is good. - nope, you’re thinking of the crash that came out in 2004 and was about racial tension and how our lives intersect, cronenberg’s crash from 1996 is about people who get sexually aroused by car crashes. - weird - yep
crash is a mutant work of art - - a bracing splash of ice water .
never has a film turned me on as much as crash. yes, that was a shitty car joke. i will not apologize .
david cronenberg said during his promotional run for the film crash :
i see technology as being an extension of the human body .
crash is difficult to watch because of the moral chaos it portrays, but it is best film i have seen in a long time .
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independence day (1996) also known as :
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for the record, based on j. g. ballard' s novel, writer - director david cronenberg' s 1996 crash stars james spader, holly hunter, elias koteas, deborah kara unger, rosanna arquette, and peter macneill .
a top quality film that follows the lives of varied people over 24 hours and how they
crash
into each other. quite original idea as well .
although it had generated some controversy when premiered at the cannes film festival in may 1996, it was not until the first british screening at the london film festival in november that the film became a tabloid cause celebre, with the daily mail and evening standard in particular attacking it on a regular basis, often on the front page .
aberly, rachel and volker engel. the making of independence day. new york: harperpaperbacks, 1996. isbn 0 - 06 - 105359 - 7 .
bobenko said the lancaster desert area is highly recommended to film companies because of its remote site. employees of a company making a rap music video nearby witnessed the crash .
when
crash'' premiered in may, 1996, at the cannes film festival, some people fled the theater. the movie has played in canada and europe to widespread controversy, inspiring polemics both pro and con. ted turner, whose studio, fine line, is distributing the film in the united states, has said he hates it. certainly it will repel and disgust many viewers .
the film had its official premiere held at the now - defunct mann plaza theater in los angeles on june 25, 1996. [ 37 ] it was then screened privately at the white house for president bill clinton and his family [ 38 ] before receiving a nationwide release in the united states on july 2, 1996, a day earlier than its previously scheduled opening. [ 39 ]
the city’s famous babelsberg film studios, now a theme park dedicated to film (and a good one), was once a powerhouse of european film production. this was where fritz lang shot ‘ metropolis ’. this was where marlene dietrich began her film career .
toronto has long been a favourite for filmmakers who opt to head north in an effort to slash budgets. while some films made here feature the city like scott pilgrim vs the world (2010), and crash (1996), others use toronto to double for us settings .
this ain' t your grandma' s crash movie. it' s fabulous! james spader at his best .
the film was scheduled for release on july 3, 1996, but due to the high level of anticipation for the movie, many theaters began showing it on the evening of july 2, 1996, the same day the film begins. the movie' s combined domestic and international box office gross is $ 816, 969, 268, which at one point was the second - highest worldwide gross of all - time. it holds the 25th highest worldwide gross of a movie all - time .
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as for the controversy surrounding paul haggis' generally well - received crash, that' s a direct result of the fact that the ensemble drama shares the same title – but not the same plot – as the 1996 david cronenberg movie about car crashes, mutilations, and kinky sex. according to the toronto star, those behind cronenberg' s work are now threatening to take legal action against the producers of the new crash .
the crash controversy was significant for the way it publicly revealed the often conflicting structures of british film regulation, and the supremacy of local government over the bbfc and national government, neither of whom had any real powers when it came to preventing the release of a film .
by the way, crash director and co - screenwriter paul haggis also wrote clint eastwood' s million dollar baby, starring eastwood, hilary swank, and morgan freeman, and which opens later this year. haggis' crash screenplay collaborator was bobby moresco .
naked lunch (1991), based on william burroughs' s novel of the same name, was thought by many to be unfilmable. a long - cherished project of cronenberg' s, it was a cinematic success. m. butterfly (1993) was based on the play by david henry hwang, and cronenberg' s most controversial film, crash (1996), was based on the novel by j. g. ballard. crash, which won a special jury prize at the cannes film festival for
originality, daring and audacity ,
ran into censorship problems in some countries .
woody allen’s midnight in paris (2011) was not his first film about the city and followed his 1996 movie everyone says i love you. richard linklater’s before sunset (2004) was possibly more of a love story about paris than it was about the characters .
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new york is also the home of some of the world’s leading film festivals like tribeca and the new york film festival. it’s also the home of some of the world’s leading film schools at columbia, nyu and new york film academy. with so much creativity in the city, it’s no surprise that new york remains one of the most important cities for film production in the world .
for a movie obsessed with the connection between sexual intercourse and car accidents, david cronenberg' s crash could hardly be more stationary .
propaganda films had no permit from the federal aviation administration or the film office to use a helicopter in the scene, said officials from the two agencies. the faa is also investigating the crash, a spokesman said .
in creating the prosthetics and scars for the injured characters in crash, the production team turned to real - world inspirations. hear from stephan dupuis as he discusses constructing the braces, body armour, and scars for the film .
katherine dieckmann’s film is beholden to a studiously weird narrative that’s governed by formula screenwriting .
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while promoting stargate in europe, emmerich came up with the idea for the film when fielding a question about his own belief in the existence of alien life. he and devlin decided to incorporate a large - scale attack when noticing that aliens in most invasion films travel long distances in space only to remain hidden when reaching earth. principal photography for the film began in july 1995 in new york city, and the film was officially completed on june 20, 1996 .
truly a one of a kind film that can never, and will never be replicated .
, which some critics described as' child pornography'. the bbfc considered the film very
advertising executive james ballard and his wife catherine lead complex, if hollow, sexual lives. following a near fatal crash with dr. helen remingto ...
robert altman’s fascinating and divisive psychological horror film receives a top - notch transfer from arrow academy .
powell, anna. deleuze and the horror film. edinburgh: edinburgh university press, 2007 .
propaganda films, a subsidiary of polygram filmed entertainment, got its start 10 years ago producing music videos and at one time produced 40% of the videos aired on mtv. the company also is very active in commercial production and has in recent years moved into feature films. the firm produced the 1996 film
barb wire
with pamela lee, the horror film
candy man
and the madonna documentary
truth or dare .
based on the novel by j. g. ballard, crash tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents. highly controversial when first released (banned in britain) this psychological thriller won the special jury prize at cannes for its “originality, daring and audacity” and was voted one of the top ten films of the year for 1996 by the prestigious french cinema journal cahiers du cinema .
marks, laura u. the skin of the film. durham: duke university press, 1999 .
and forest gump is an amazing film? i' m not a huge fan of avatar but it' s the highest grossing film of all time! this writer doesn' t have a clue .
finally saw this film. so beautifully executed. the rips on cronenberg that this film is too cold is off to me. it' s just insanely focused. i love the attention to physical details .
). upon its very first screening, the film became instantly controversial because of one specific scene towards the end of the film, when sevigny performs unsimulated fellatio on gallo and swallows his semen. sevigny’s agency
despite this, the movie won the academy award for visual effects, [ 69 ] beating twister and dragonheart. it was also nominated for an academy award for best sound but lost to the english patient. [ 70 ] composer david arnold won a grammy award for his work on the film. [ 71 ] the movie also won an amanda award for best foreign feature film. [ 69 ] viewers voted for independence day to receive an mtv movie award for best kiss, [ 72 ] a people' s choice award for favorite dramatic motion picture, [ 73 ] and a kids' choice award for favorite movie. it received saturn awards for saturn award for best director, best science fiction film, and best special effects. [ 74 ] the film was awarded best film editing and best visual effects at the inaugural golden satellite award ceremony. the film received a golden raspberry nomination in 1996 for worst written film grossing over $ 100 million but lost to twister. [ 69 ]
if anything, cronenberg' s films have revealed more about their audience than their director. look at the way britain lost its head over crash, back in 1996: the reaction of the press in this country to the film' s vehicular eroticism was so disproportionately hysterical, it looks comical in retrospect .
ban this car crash sex film ,
frothed the daily mail, until the matter was taken up by politicians and councillors .
crash surprised me totally, the reception ,
cronenberg says now .
it was a 20 - year - old novel, well accepted as part of jg ballard' s canon. i really didn' t think this movie that was fairly faithful to the tone of the novel would be so shocking to people here .
ballard described the furore as
little england at its worst
, symptomatic of a
strange, nervous nation
. there was no crash controversy in france or canada, cronenberg points out .
different countries have different reactions. some films are successful in some places; some not. i think shivers played in glasgow for three years non - stop. why was that? i have no idea .
crash
doesn' t extend beyond its most immediate sensationalism. when the movie does attempt to find a theme, it slams into a brick wall of mumbo - jumbo .
[ crash ] is familiar enough that it slips easily into our film - watching faculty without any fuss, yet [ haggis' ] handling of it - - his muscular belief in what he is doing - - makes us hope that his next screenplay will be a bit less safe .
in my opinion, this film is a masterpiece by cronenberg. features a frightening performance from elias koteas .
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eastern promises
from rogerebert. com .
loved it. the scene with holly hunter early in the film is one of the sexiest things in movies .
kingsley said the production company was not trying to avoid faa or film office approval review of the helicopter shots .
i definitely liked cronenberg' s version of crash better. classic creepy movie with a stellar cast. roles like this were made for james spader. i thought holly hunter was terrific too .
crash
was directed by paul haggis, whose screenplay for
million dollar baby
led to academy awards. it connects stories based on coincidence, serendipity, and luck, as the lives of the characters crash against one another other like pinballs. the movie presumes that most people feel prejudice and resentment against members of other groups, and observes the consequences of those feelings .
the philistinism of ted turner in initially refusing to release'' crash'' thus becomes a lot less surprising than it ought to be. this film' s graphic, macabre sex scenes are staged as literally as ordinary pornography, without enough of a directorial viewpoint to expand their meaning. and after the film has achieved its initial shock value, it simply lingers on a plateau, with new sexual permutations among the characters doing little to enhance what has already been seen. yet'' crash'' is so fastidious and schematic that it clearly intends a more complex vision than the one it reveals .
so the creepy rituals and joyless couplings of'' crash'' do amount to a form of daring. or they would have, if the film had had more passion of its own. but mr. cronenberg, for once oddly inhibited by brazen subject matter, has made a meticulously stylized and controlled film that leaves many of its characters' ideas muffled and lacks the true audacity its material demands. a film that shows its characters in such a debased and disturbing light had better also show the courage of its convictions .
david cronenberg lives and works in toronto, where he was born and where he began making films in 1966 .
something of a dream
( pevere 138) for critics because he writes as well as directs many of his films, 1 cronenberg’s thirteen feature films have won over forty international and national critical awards (including four canadian genies as
best director
). in 1990, he was honored with france’s prestigious chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres. the cannes film festival and the berlin film festival each awarded him a special jury prize: in 1996 to crash for its
audacity, daring, and originality
and in 1999 to existenz for
outstanding artistic achievement .
crash remains the penultimate example of this parallel genre. it is extraordinarily beautiful and everything, including the road, seems to come alive. cronenberg has discussed the set of crash as one that was highly sexualized, where even the city itself had a sexual quality, but perhaps we can replace sexual with vibrant or, to use another bennett term, evanescent. bennett asks where evanescence lies, as property of stuff or of people? in crash it oscillates between the two entities, and the elaborate braces facilitate the sexualized agency of these strange hybrids, bridging the relationship between humans and machines .
but just give us' electric boogaloo'. us fellow kinky film - lovers need to be given another bone .
1. of his thirteen feature - length films, five are adapted from his own stories (for which he also wrote the screenplays): shivers (1975), rabid (1976), the brood (1979), scanners (1980), and videodrome (1982). he wrote the screenplays for naked lunch (1991) and crash (1996), and co - wrote for fast company (1979), the fly (1986), and dead ringers (1988 )
since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former tv scientist has become obsessed by the marriage of motor - car technology with what he sees as the raw sexuality of car - crash victims. the scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently befriended, sets about performing a series of sexual acts in a variety of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes whom they contort into the shape of trapped corpses. ultimately, the scientist craves a suicidal union of blood, semen, and engine coolant, a union with which he becomes dangerously obsessed .
a psycho - sexual journey into oblivion in this controversial film from acclaimed director david cronenberg. james spader is a bored film director who explores new realms after a near - fatal car accident introduces him to a world of sexually obsessed car cra
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since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former tv scientist has become obsessed by the marriage of motor - car technology with what he sees as the raw sexuality of car - crash victims. the scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently befriended, sets about performing a series of sexual acts in a variety of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes whom they contort into the shape of trapped corpses. ultimately, the scientist craves a suicidal union of blood, semen, and engine coolant, a union with which he becomes dangerously obsessed. written by matt a. knapp
the scenes and settings of crash are stunning; industrial landscapes, metallic and concrete country sides. the script is the real gem. it is a monstrous concept that possibly only cronenberg could have handled so well .
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in the uk the daily mail newspaper led the calls for the film to be banned with a front page headline reading
ban this car crash sex film
. to cover themselves against possible prosecution the bbfc consulted a qc to determine whether the film contravened the obscene publications act, a psychologist to see if it could potentially incite copycat behavior, and a group of disabled people to see if the character played by rosanna arquette would be considered offensive to them. after all 3 consultations proved to be successful and the bbfc were able to pass the full unrated version completely uncut. see more »
after getting into a serious car accident, a tv director discovers an underground sub - culture of scarred, omnisexual car - crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they... see more »
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berlin’s artistic side was shown on film in berlin: symphony of a city (1927) and in rainer werner fassbinder’s epic berlin alexanderplatz (1980), but the city’s film scene struggled through two wars and recovery was slow. the berlinale was set up in 1951 and is now one of the leading film events in the world, but it took decades to build its reputation .
in order to figure out what about car wrecks so excites them, james and remington make their way to a secret exhibition run by vaughan (elias koteas), whom we met earlier posing as a medical photographer taking loving pictures of james' leg brace. vaughn restages
classic
car crashes such as james dean' s death for a small but dedicated crowd of crash enthusiasts sitting in bleachers hollering as if nascar fans got turned on by all the wrecks they hope to see. james and remington immerse themselves fully into this sub - section of society, and soon they peruse photographs of crash sites and view crash test footage as if viewing pornography .
its fiftieth anniversary offers an occasion to challenge some of the commonplaces about the film and to show that there remains much to be clarified about its character. an attention to location in the film and a focus on its little - discussed coda can resituate battle as a film that, going beyond its well - recognized revolutionary narrative, deals with the end of the french empire and represents the first in a line of banlieue cinema—that is, as a film that presciently anticipates postcolonial conditions on the territory of france itself .
a month after the film' s release, jewelry designers and marketing consultants reported an increased interest in dolphin - themed jewelry, since the character of jasmine in the film wears dolphin earrings and is presented with a wedding ring featuring a gold dolphin. [ 55 ]
if you' re aged 16 to 25, you can get £3 cinema tickets at bfi southbank to any film, any time .
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an inconsistent but nonetheless beautiful restoration makes for the best - looking home - video release yet of alfred hitchcock' s most underrated film .
in reply to accusations that zev asher' s documentary glorifies the killers, toronto film festival co - director noah cowan defended the film' s screening, stating: “people who have viewed the film – and that includes several toronto journalists and our curators – indicate that it certainly does not allow room to sympathize with the actions of the convicted criminals portrayed in the documentary and shows them to be morally bankrupt. ”
if there' s anything worse than a film with no point, it' s one that' s all point and nothing but .
'' crash'' has the nc - 17 rating (no one under 17 admitted) that it fully deserves. it includes frontal nudity, many sexual encounters and coolly grotesque situations linking sex and violence in graphic, sickening ways .
some film historians presume that robert bresson ’s final film, l’argent, was booed because audiences had simply had enough of bresson’s decisively understated style. me? i’ll never grow tired of bresson’s minimalist charm, but to each his own. shame, though, that l’argent — a rather remarkable film concerned with the ways in which forged money can ruin a man’s life — proved to be bresson’s final film. maybe he had run out of creative steam, maybe it’s because his age caught up with him, or maybe he’d simply had enough with the critical jeers .
'' crash,'' which is disturbing in both its initial recklessness and ultimate timidity, still deserves to be taken seriously as part of mr. cronenberg' s bravely idiosyncratic career. at the very least, it is quite literally a striking oddity. when not orchestrating strangely impersonal human couplings, the film maker stages scenes in traffic, which called for the wrecking of 25 automobiles. according to elinor galbraith, the film' s set director,'' we discovered why everyone should drive a volvo.''
] i myself shall play the role of dean' s racing mechanic rolf voudrich, sent over from the porsche factory in zuffenhausen, germany. now, this mechanic was himself fated to die in a car crash in germany 26 years later .
cronenberg' s films have won many genie awards. dead ringers (10 genies) and naked lunch (8 genies) were both named best picture and earned cronenberg best director awards. he also received best director awards for videodrome, crash and spider. a history of violence received numerous accolades and awards, including oscar nominations for best adapted screenplay and supporting actor (william hurt), a bafta (britain) nomination for best adapted screenplay, a césar (france) nomination for best foreign film, 5 directors guild of canada (dgc) awards, 2 golden globe nominations, and best director and canadian film from the toronto film critics association. eastern promises received an oscar nomination for best actor (viggo mortensen), 2 bafta nominations, a césar nominaton for best foreign film, 5 dgc awards and 8 genie awards. it was nominated for 3 golden globe awards and won the prestigious people' s choice award at the toronto international film festival .
berlin is just a cool location for a film. probably the coolest city in europe, it inhales creatives. among them, young and exciting filmmakers, writers, performers and artists focus on creating rather than on the commercial elements of filmmaking. it’s a haven for low budget and indie film production. dreams of filmmakers are made even more attainable when you look at the many financing options available for visual media and film production .
the film should have been nominated for best picture, but was robbed by doctor doolitle, probably the worst best picture nominee of all time .
independence day (also known by its promotional abbreviation id4) is a 1996 science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last - chance retaliation on july 4 – the same date as the independence day holiday in the united states. it was directed by roland emmerich, who co - wrote the script with producer dean devlin .
crash doesn' t represent the zenith of cronenberg as far as great films go, i believe his ultimate tome is eastern promises, but it does i believe represent his zenith when it comes to tackling the idea of sexuality and the various triggers that our sexuality has that we try and deny. because of this i understand why so many didn' t like crash or couldn' t stand it, but i also think a great majority of them are simply being short sighted and allowing their prudish nature to stop them from seeing the truths that cronenberg seeks. maybe i' m wrong, i often am, but all i know is that crash spoke to me like the best cronenberg works do and i' m happy for that .
after getting into a serious car accident, a tv director discovers an underground sub - culture of scarred, omnisexual car - crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife .
1967 - thoroughly modern millie over in cold blood - quincy jones' music embodied the film and should have won best music score. in fact ,
but crash isn’t about urban alienation. after smashing up his car driving home from work, ballard quickly discovers an underground community of crash addicts. he begins with dr. helen remington (holly hunter), who collided with him while they were both on their way home from work. their crash was like ferocious quickie sex: a moment of impact, all shattered glass and busted fenders, followed by a long, slow breath and a reveal of her scarred breast when she tears off her seatbelt. the perversity is made more sinister when her husband is hurled through ballard’s windshield and immediately killed—something neither the shell - shocked survivors nor cronenberg call attention to afterwards. it’s the cold survival logic of darwin, where libertarians leave their past behind as if it were dead .
while the film was still in post - production, 20th century fox began a massive marketing campaign to help promote the film, beginning with the airing of a dramatic commercial during super bowl xxx, for which fox paid $ 1. 3 million. [ 30 ] the subsequent success of the film at the box office resulted in the trend of using super bowl air time to kick off the advertising campaign for potential blockbusters. [ 31 ] [ 32 ]
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
dennis fischer. science fiction film directors, 1895 - 1998. jefferson, nc: mcfarland, 2000. viii + 759 pp. $ 175 hc .
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james spader plays a character called james ballard, a sexual adventurer who explores new realms after a car crash introduces him to dr. helen remington (holly hunter). mr. spader plays this role as if he fervently believed in the film' s ideas, and as if he were game for anything; that is the best that can be expected. left unsatisfied by marriage to the equally kinky and unabashed catherine (deborah kara unger, a canadian actress with a haunting intensity), james pursues an erotic connection linking cars, sex and injury. eventually he meets vaughan (elias koteas), who savors crash data and presides over a cult of like - minded fetishists .
crash
is about the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision; they may feel their pulses quickening and become aware of the fragility of their own bodies. the characters of
crash
carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. for them, a car collision is a sexual turn - on, and a jolting life force they come to crave .
besides matt dillon, ryan phillippe, don cheadle, sandra bullock, and brendan fraser, crash also features jennifer esposito, terrence howard, thandie newton, michael peña, loretta devine, tony danza, chris' ludacris' bridges, william fichtner, and shaun toub .
ultimately, crash succeeds in spite of itself. its color war starts to feel obvious and schematic. its coincidences and cliches become like a pileup on the 405 freeway, but there it is - - you find yourself rubbernecking and can' t manage to look away .
i seem to have been the only person who hadn' t seen this movie so i decided to give it a watch and at the end of it, i kinda wish i had remained a crash virgin for the rest of my life. don' t get me wrong, i love gratuitous sex on many levels but this film just didn' t deliver any real plot to me. so they were in a car crash, then they became nymphs? if there is any poetry in this movie it was lost on me. half a star for the idea, which was original, half a star for the cronenberg name and then one massive star for the tattoo sucking scene between spader and koteas .
the movie originally depicted russell casse being rejected as a volunteer for the july 4 aerial counteroffensive because of his alcoholism. he then uses a stolen missile tied to his red biplane to carry out his suicide mission. according to dean devlin, test audiences responded well to the scene' s irony and comedic value. [ 7 ] however, the scene was re - shot to include russell' s acceptance as a volunteer, his crash course in modern fighter aircraft, and him flying an f - 18 instead of the biplane. devlin preferred the alteration because the viewer now witnesses russell ultimately making the decision to sacrifice his life, [ 7 ] and seeing the biplane keeping pace and flying amongst f - 18s was
just not believable
. [ 29 ] the film was officially completed on june 20, 1996. [ 10 ]
rented it years ago and loved it. i found it extremely disturbing and erotic at the same time. it was the audition tape that made me cast holly hunter in some fantasies, as well. i also liked the 2004 crash, for what it' s worth .
author stephen molstad wrote a tie - in novel to help promote the film shortly before its release. the novel goes into further detail on the characters, situations, and overall concept not explored in the film. the novel presents the finale of the film as originally scripted, with the character played by randy quaid stealing a missile and roping it to his crop duster biplane. following the success of the film, a prequel novel entitled independence day: silent zone was written by molstad in february 1998. [ 40 ] the novel is set in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and details the early career of dr. brackish okun. [ 41 ] molstad wrote a third novel, independence day: war in the desert in july 1999. the novel is both a midquel and sequel to the film. set in saudi arabia on july 3, it centers around captain cummins and colonel thompson, the two royal air force officers seen receiving the morse code message in the film .
on its scandalizing surface, david cronenberg' s'' crash'' suggests exploitation at its most disturbingly sick. adapting the cult novel by j. g. ballard (the'' empire of the sun'' author who will never again be thought of as that nice little boy growing up near steven spielberg' s shanghai), mr. cronenberg explores a newly pornographic realm of screen sex. the characters in'' crash'' are aroused by violent car crashes, and their fetishism extends up to and even beyond the point of death .
purwin, a pilot and tamburro' s partner in west coast helicopters, a company based at van nuys airport, was in the rear seat of the aircraft. he suffered a broken left wrist in the crash. it was not known whether he was wearing a harness or helmet .
fletcher, a woodland hills stuntman who was standing on the ground near the crash site, was hit by flying debris. both men were released wednesday afternoon from the antelope valley medical center hospital. reached by telephone, fletcher said he had cuts on his legs but was feeling better .
crash'' is about characters entranced by a sexual fetish that, in fact, no one has. cronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result. take out the cars, the scars, the crutches and scabs and wounds, and substitute the usual props of sex films, and you' d have a porno movie. but
crash'' is anything but pornographic: it' s about the human mind, about the way we grow enslaved by the particular things that turn us on, and forgive ourselves our trespasses .
this friday david cronenberg and robert pattinson are coming on the 5 live show to talk about their new film cosmopolis. here i reveal my favourite cronenberg films ...
the film' s plot deliberately and closely follows the plots of classic alien invasion fiction, most notably the war of the worlds by h. g. wells and its 1953 film adaptation. whereas the premise of the film bears little resemblance, there are many elements from war of the worlds, including the aliens' resistance against nuclear weapons (on a related note, the same scene shows, in the wreckage, a lamp post twisted into the shape of the heat ray from the 1953 film), and the aliens defeat via a virus (however, wells' aliens were killed by a biological virus). independence day has also been an influence on later fiction .
winnipeg free press pop culture and film writer alison gillmor returns to host our book to film discussion and screening series. following each screening, alison will moderate a discussion of how the book compares to its screen adaptation. participants who sign up for the discussion are encouraged to read the book in advance (available at mcnally robinson). please register in advance (204 - 925 - 3456, ext 106). please note there is no fee for the discussion group, only for admission to the film .
oh dear, who wrote this. it is pretty obvious that the oscars don' t often don' t reflect what are the best films and performances, however there are some strong contenders on this list. the' sounds of music' is a beautiful directed film and' forest gump' is an incredibly witty and powerful film .
20. a comparison could usefully be made of the coda of battle and the exuberant crowd scenes that close the italian empire film bengasi (augusto genina, 1942) .
strip away the abstract concept of love and what’s left is primal desire fueled by need. but human beings don’t like being told they’re animals, so they allow their imaginations to construct fantasies to help them justify those needs. j. g. ballard’s novel crash was pornography for philosophs, with technology as the illusion of choice. a secret society indulges in car sex, leading to accidents as erotic set pieces. the novel and david cronenberg’s film adaptation implicitly state that crashing cars during intercourse allows us to feel genuine sensations as opposed to the numbness of society, jobs, and conversation. it’s a far out, all or nothing premise. what’s disturbing to audiences isn’t that crash condemns such amorality, but that its characters are stretching their battered and scarred bodies into something new. very little is discovered about these people besides their extreme proclivities. to give you an idea: the character named ballard (james spader) winds up sticking his dick into the serrated leg wound of a crash survivor (rosanna arquette) and walks away happier for it .
bill pullman as president thomas j. whitmore: a former persian gulf war fighter pilot and current president of the united states whose approval ratings early in the film indicate the nation' s dissatisfaction with his performance. to prepare for the role, pullman read the commanders by bob woodward and watched the documentary film the war room. [ 4 ]
43. homi k. bhabha, the location of culture (london: routledge, 1994); jonathan rutherford, “the third space: interview with homi bhabha, ” in identity: community, culture, difference, ed. jonathan rutherford (london: lawrence and wishart, 1990), 207–21; edward soja, thirdspace: journeys to los angeles and other real - and - imagined places (oxford: blackwell, 1996) .
also. gone with the wind is the only film from that era that almost anyone could name - which means it has stood the test of time and deserved the oscar .
the aftermath: the film was released in a post - columbine climate during which films that depicted extreme violence were taken to task by moral watchdogs in a way that just doesn' t happen anymore. american psycho might even be considered tame by today' s standards, but thanks to the controversy generated by the bret easton ellis novel on which the film was based, the filmmakers were threatened with lawsuits before it was even released, while the news of the world deemed it
the most disgusting film of the year .
the atlanta film industry generated $ 6b in the city’s economy last year. the state of georgia has the 3rd largest film production industry in the us and it looks like things are set to continue. the state easily offers the best tax incentives in the us to attract productions and the film industry in atlanta is known for having more of a ‘can do’ attitude than its glitzy, glossy rival cities. it also helps that a lot of georgia locations are permit - free, cutting through red - tape for producers and locations teams .
but mr. cronenberg, who will now rattle audiences even more powerfully than he did with'' dead ringers'' or'' naked lunch,'' cannot be dismissed as a twisted panderer despite the clear leanings of'' crash'' in that direction. as mr. ballard did, he envisions a work of sexually charged science fiction. the'' crash'' characters sleepwalk through this story in a state of futuristic numbness, seeking extreme forms of sensation because familiar feelings have long since failed them. it' s a chilling, ghastly possibility that manages to exert a grim fascination .
while the director remains firmly behind the wheel for the first hour or so, he cracks up toward the end with sequences that send the film and the audience into a ditch .
that this bloated, tedious and wildly overpriced historical epic took any awards at all is disgraceful, but the one which really sticks in the craw is cinematography. not only does the film look like it’s been shot through a veneer of blancmange, but it triumphed over arguably the most visually sumptuous film ever made, ‘ the leopard ’, which wasn’t even nominated .
in the real city you… you walk. you know? you brush past people. people bump into you. in l. a. nobody touches you. we’re always behind this metal and glass. i think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something .
in hindsight, it’s actually kind of easy to see why carl theodor dreyer ’s final film, gertrud, was met with an immediate negative vocal reaction. the film is a painfully (and purposefully) slow meditation on love found and love lost, and, apparently, the cannes audiences weren’t having it. either way, despite the film’s undesirable response (or is it because of it… ?), the 75 - year - old dreyer reportedly had the stones to flip the audience off as they were booing. might as well go down swinging .
it was essentially illegal ,
said michael bobenko, vice president of operations for a quasi - governmental office that issues location shooting permits for the film industry in los angeles county .
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not many films have the possibility of making their audiences better people. i don' t expect
crash
to work any miracles, but i believe anyone seeing it is likely to be moved to have a little more sympathy for people not like themselves. the movie contains hurt, coldness and cruelty, but is it without hope? not at all. stand back and consider. all of these people, superficially so different, share the city and learn that they share similar fears and hopes. until several hundred years ago, most people everywhere on earth never saw anybody who didn' t look like them. they were not racist because, as far as they knew, there was only one race. you may have to look hard to see it, but
crash
is a film about progress.
crash is a 1996 british-canadian psychological thriller film written and directed by david cronenberg based on j. g. ballard 's 1973 novel of the same name . it tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car crashes , a notable form of paraphilia . the film stars james spader , deborah kara unger , elias koteas , holly hunter , and rosanna arquette . the film generated considerable controversy upon its release and opened to mixed and highly divergent reactions from critics . while some praised the film for its daring premise and originality , others criticized its combination of graphic sexuality and violence . it premiered at the cannes film festival , where it won the special jury prize , considered the third-most prestigious prize of the festival . it won six genie awards from the academy of canadian cinema and television , including awards for cronenberg as director and screenwriter ; the film was also nominated in two further categories , including producer . 
crash is a 1996 british-canadian psychological thriller film written and directed by david cronenberg based on j. g. ballard's 1973 novel of the same name. it tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car crashes, a notable form of paraphilia. the film stars james spader, deborah kara unger, elias koteas, holly hunter, and rosanna arquette. the film generated considerable controversy upon its release and opened to mixed and highly divergent reactions from critics. while some praised the film for its daring premise and originality, others criticized its combination of graphic sexuality and violence. it premiered at the cannes film festival, where it won the special jury prize, considered the third-most prestigious prize of the festival. it won six genie awards from the academy of canadian cinema and television, including awards for cronenberg as director and screenwriter; the film was also nominated in two further categories, including producer.
crash is a 1996 british-canadian psychological thriller film written and directed by david cronenberg based on j. g. ballard's 1973 novel of the same name. it tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car crashes, a notable form of paraphilia. the film stars james spader, deborah kara unger, elias koteas, holly hunter, and rosanna arquette. the film generated considerable controversy upon its release and opened to mixed and highly divergent reactions from critics. while some praised the film for its daring premise and originality, others criticized its combination of graphic sexuality and violence. it premiered at the cannes film festival, where it won the special jury prize, considered the third-most prestigious prize of the festival. it won six genie awards from the academy of canadian cinema and television, including awards for cronenberg as director and screenwriter; the film was also nominated in two further categories, including producer.