Dec 22, 2020 Web Exclusive By Jason Wilson
Sex and car crashes is such a reductive and meaningless way to characterize David Cronenberg’s
Crash, but it’s understandable why such a description would ultimately be how such a movie is sold to the public. It’s the promise of something taboo and dangerous, and while the movie most certainly is those things it doesn’t go about it in the way that you may expect.
Crash is cold and sterile. It’s erotic without being sensual. The sex is almost always presented as mechanical and joyless. Thrilling, yes, but automatic and machine-like even when certain boundaries of inhibition are eroded. James Ballard (James Spader) and his wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger) have affairs and relay the details to one another during their own sexual encounters. It’s not that they’re necessarily dissatisfied with one another, it’s that sex has simply lost its luster. James breaks his leg in a car crash that sends another man fatally t
Blu-ray: Crash
by Demetrios MatheouSunday, 20 December 2020
Strapping in: James Spader and Holly Hunter in Crash
Crash, David Cronenberg’s dazzling, daring, disturbing adaptation of JG Ballard’s novel about car crashes and sex is one of the most infamous of all cinema cause celebres.
Crash, David Cronenberg’s dazzling, daring, disturbing adaptation of JG Ballard’s novel about car crashes and sex is one of the most infamous of all cinema cause celebres.
The film s premiere in Cannes in 1996 caused an extraordinary ballyhoo, with then
Evening Standard critic Alexander Walker writing a review with the headline a movie beyond the bounds of depravity and jury president Francis Coppola declining to join his fellow jury members in awarding the film a special jury prize.
A great film about phone sex. Courtesy Rosebud Films
The Telephone Book is smut of the highest order. Every frame is perverted, twisted fun. I felt giddy the entire time watching it, like I was flipping through a
Playboy for the first time. Though there s no full penetration,
Telephone Book is, without a doubt, a pretty porny (or porn chic as producer Merv Bloch says) affair. The film is centered around Alice (Sarah Kennedy), a perpetually horny woman who receives Thee Most Obscene And Hottest sex phone call from an unknown caller. Determined to bang him in real life, she pours through the telephone book, encountering pervy stranger after stranger, looking for the peen that matches the mysterious voice.
SYNOPSIS:
A couple looking to spice up their sex life discover an underground cult of car crash victims who get sexual thrills out of road traffic accidents.
A timely release given that Brandon Cronenberg’s sublime
Possessor has hit digital platforms to positive reviews this month, with Arrow Video have delving into his father’s back catalogue to add David Cronenberg’s controversial 1996 movie
Crash to their ever-growing roster of 4K UHD releases.
Like with most films made by a Cronenberg the plot, when written down, looks to be something of – at the very least – an oddity or at the other end of the spectrum, the workings of a deranged genius.